AIBU to question non-assistance dogs being allowed in Primark?

I have male bernese mountain dogs - i wouldn't take them shopping. They wouldn't like it for starters. They would scare some people. And I bet they would pee on something!

Do your dogs enjoy coffee?

I take my dogs to coffee shops but would never take them town centre shopping , they just wouldn’t enjoy it and it wouldn’t be that relaxing for me tbh

Out of the 2 'crimes' of buying fast fashion, or dogs in shops, i'm less offended by the latter. Just stop buying that shit

Once again, your logic is flawed. My 'most people' referred to the population as a whole/shoppers in general and you know this. This has absolutely no connection to the 'most people with a severe allergy to dogs that causes a severe asthma attack' that you have just mentioned in the next breath. You are comparing different groups. The latter is a tiny percentage of the general population, and was obviously not what I was talking about when I made my comments.

No one left the shop quickly when we went in.

At least the free-roaming cats don't (generally) roam into shops and eateries.

No pop intended! It was just an opportunity to think a bit more broadly about the overall pet question as I think there is a very divisive line on this especially between the cat V dog owners and let’s face it….the owners are always the issue. Free roaming cats are a problem, badly behaved dogs are a problem, owners are the cause.

Yes you do. Free roaming cats that shit in other people’s gardens is as anti social as badly behaved dogs in shops and public areas. At least people have a choice about which business to use if they aren’t keen on dogs. No one has a choice if a cat decides to take a shit in your garden. Good that you keep your cats in!

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Of course they are. (Or did we just work out the hypocrisy of a different answer)

'Unhinged' I'm not the one stating extreme views online that if those whose die from an asthma attack as a result of being around dogs is "natural selection".

I am disputing your 'most' claims as most people with a severe allergy to dogs or have an asthma attack in response to dogs would circumvent the shop you are in or leave quickly so how would you possibly know.

Clearly not a medical professional are you! Equally, you wouldn't elaborate on whether your asinine 'natural selection' post applies to everyone who could potentially die from an allergic reaction, or need medical assistance to prevent life threatening situations like a pacemaker or insulin for diabetes etc.?

What a peculiar response. You quoted me directly and it appears the only thing that is fictional are the things you claim I have said.

I very deliberately do not use all or nothing responses. Your post is littered with such language. I did not say 'everyone' warmly greets my dog, I said 'most people'

I did not use the word nonsense, so not sure what I claimed was nonsense

I also said that the views on here are not representative of 'most people'.

These things are very different to the things you claim that I said. Nowhere did I say people were making fictional claims.

By all means disagree and offer a different perspective, but misrepresenting what I said, does nothing at all to support your case.

Wow, family do something they are allowed to do but you don’t like so you behave in a passive aggressive childish fashion rather than being a grown up. You don’t come out as well from that story as you think.

Fine @FlimsyMimsy , you don’t like it but they are allowed so get over it. Many dogs wouldn’t enjoy it but the owner is the best judge of that and unless you are going round telling people off for poor parenting decisions in public ( bet you aren’t) then the only thing you can reasonably do is complain to the store, but frankly businesses are in existence to make money so don’t expect them to change this unless it impacts their bottom line.

I have a dog, I wouldn’t take her to primary as it’s tacky, or to most shops as we prefer countryside walks, but sometimes it’s helpful to be able to pop in to shops or grab food and I won’t apologise for that. She behaves better and less intrusively than many humans I come across.

I don’t think it’s relevant

Then they’d run down the road with a string of stolen sausages.

Put cages in the car parks. Dog goes in there, out of the way while the owners do whatever they came to do.

Imagine Mr Lewis not considering whether allowing dogs in is impacting his profits.

Long thread short, some people think seeing dogs in shops and cafes is horrendous, some think they should be allowed to take their dogs places the business owner permits. There will be arguing, name calling and sarcasm and no outcome.

So you think a severe asthmatic reaction is made up?

It isn't just on Mumsnet, what, only on Mumsnet where severe asthma attacks that stop a human breathing in reaction to a dog in a shop or restaurant, are fictional? What a ridiculous rationale. Liking dogs and being allergic to them is not mutually exclusive. If I see a dog in a restaurant or a shop I would just not go into said shop/restaurant or quickly leave so your anecdotal research claiming this to be nonsense is not validated by your claim that everyone warmly greets your dog. Dogs in big stores like John Lewis is the real problem and they must be losing custom as a result.

Oh, I wondered about the piles of bodies outside shops and cafes at the end of the day. Didn’t realise they were caused by those evil dog owners who bring their hounds out with them.