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To enter the supermarket with my cat in the carrier

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Carrotcake93 · 15/09/2023 15:40

We're going to the vet to get his annual vaccinations and I have to go to the supermarket next door to buy two things quickly. I don't know if they will let me get in with the cat in his carrier.

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MariePaperRoses · 15/09/2023 17:37

Put the carrier in a trolley and wheel round.

The cat is contained.

I've seen kids with snotty noses and dirty hands running amok and picking up fruit and veg, far worse than any cat in a carrier.

VeryQuaintIrene · 15/09/2023 17:37

Phos · 15/09/2023 16:04

Take him in. He's enclosed in a cat carrier. Someone mentioned pee but honestly I've never known a house or litter trained cat to pee in their carrier. They hold it like they would at home.

You haven't met my boy Max!

But I think people are being ridiculous otherwise. The cat is evidently carrier-trained, unfazed by people so isn't going to run amuck. It will be fine.

Marwoodsbigbreak · 15/09/2023 17:37

FijiSea · 15/09/2023 17:36

@Coralsunset Sorry but I would not like dogs in my workplace office environment, if you do not have dogs , you can smell dogs and I would not want my work environment to smell of dog.

Fair enough, you wouldn’t choose to work in my office, we are all big animal lovers so you probably wouldn’t fit in anyway…

Underthemilktree · 15/09/2023 17:38

Where I live, someone regularly takes her pet rabbit around the Coop in some pet pram contraption. We all now treat this as a perfectly normal occurrence.

At Christmas their pram is adorned with tinsel...

Sorry this doesn't help you OP, but hope all goes well at the vet!

Enderunicorn · 15/09/2023 17:38

I popped into Tesco next to vet with cat after apt a few weeks ago, actually didn't occur to me that it was against the rules tbh. No one said anything or even looked twice.

MariePaperRoses · 15/09/2023 17:39
Redebs · 15/09/2023 17:39

MariePaperRoses · 15/09/2023 17:37

Put the carrier in a trolley and wheel round.

The cat is contained.

I've seen kids with snotty noses and dirty hands running amok and picking up fruit and veg, far worse than any cat in a carrier.

You do know that cats carry diseases that can be passed to humans, don't you?

VeryQuaintIrene · 15/09/2023 17:41

It's in a carrier!!!

Doingtheboxerbeat · 15/09/2023 17:41

Underthemilktree · 15/09/2023 17:38

Where I live, someone regularly takes her pet rabbit around the Coop in some pet pram contraption. We all now treat this as a perfectly normal occurrence.

At Christmas their pram is adorned with tinsel...

Sorry this doesn't help you OP, but hope all goes well at the vet!

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I love things like this so much, it brings me joy.
I also love the word contraption - it amuses me for some reason.

Hibiscrubbed · 15/09/2023 17:41

This is phenomenally outing but I took one of my ducks to Waitrose. He was in a carrier. He’d been to the vet and I needed to pick up a few things so I took him in and put his carrier in the trolley. People were genuinely quite delighted to see a duck. I got stopped more than if I was walking around with a fresh born baby. We whizzed through the poultry aisle, as you can imagine. Bit traumatic.

Anyway, I had to take him in as ducks die in hot cars. Same goes for cats. Take them shopping.

SoupDragon · 15/09/2023 17:42

Redebs · 15/09/2023 17:39

You do know that cats carry diseases that can be passed to humans, don't you?

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How do you imagine these diseases would be passed on from a cat in a secure cat carrier?

BrontëParsonage · 15/09/2023 17:42

Slightly hijacking the thread to say that I saw a man walk his dog-on-a-lead into the supermarket today (it’s a supermarket-cum-petrol station rather than a fuelling station with a few stale packets of sandwiches). He had filled up his car, removed his pet from his car, walked through about 20 aisles of fresh and ambient produce (one way system) to pay for his petrol and groceries. There were about 10 of us in the queue behind him with our eyes agog. And the CF (canine fucker) was jumping up at the people behind to the extent that the woman in front of me dropped her carton of fresh cream and it exploded everywhere. (This is possibly the most exciting event of my past week.)

GreekDogRescue · 15/09/2023 17:42

FijiSea · 15/09/2023 17:33

@GreekDogRescue It’s not about thinking you are going to die if you see an animal 😒
Its that there are rules about not having animals in shops .

Nope.
The law is no animals in food prep areas not food shops per se.
But I guess you’re the sort of gal who never breaks a rule, even imaginary ones.

Hibiscrubbed · 15/09/2023 17:45

BrontëParsonage · 15/09/2023 17:42

Slightly hijacking the thread to say that I saw a man walk his dog-on-a-lead into the supermarket today (it’s a supermarket-cum-petrol station rather than a fuelling station with a few stale packets of sandwiches). He had filled up his car, removed his pet from his car, walked through about 20 aisles of fresh and ambient produce (one way system) to pay for his petrol and groceries. There were about 10 of us in the queue behind him with our eyes agog. And the CF (canine fucker) was jumping up at the people behind to the extent that the woman in front of me dropped her carton of fresh cream and it exploded everywhere. (This is possibly the most exciting event of my past week.)

So what? He was on a lead. I met a gorgeous Labrador in Boots today, and had my lunch next to a French bulldog named Roger.

birdglasspen · 15/09/2023 17:46

Maybe just go and ask in shop and explain your situation? I took my cat on a plane to a vets and back through an international airport. Other than some idiot member of airline company who checked cats cage for explosives and lost cat for a while it was all good. If anything the staff will look and say oh she has a cat how funny. I don’t think the world is that full with people with cat allergies?

Doingtheboxerbeat · 15/09/2023 17:46

GreekDogRescue · 15/09/2023 17:28

OMG.
How are you even still ALIVE? 🐈☠️

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I'm so glad I read some of your other replies before responding, defensively 🤭.

BrontëParsonage · 15/09/2023 17:48

@Hibiscrubbed it was a SUPERMARKET; dogs are banned.

Hibiscrubbed · 15/09/2023 18:07

BrontëParsonage · 15/09/2023 17:48

@Hibiscrubbed it was a SUPERMARKET; dogs are banned.

They’re not in mine. Nor are ducks, if you see my earlier post.

BunnyBunnyJabberJabber · 15/09/2023 18:08

TheBarbieEffect · 15/09/2023 15:53

Absolutely not. It’s a animal and has no place in a supermarket amongst food.

So entitled.

A lot of animals ARE food,to be frank.

Anonymouslyposting · 15/09/2023 18:08

I’m allergic - please don’t do this, it’s not fair.

My allergy is pretty mild so I’d probably be unaffected if I didn’t get close but others would be affected and it’s just horrible when your eyes won’t stop itching and you keep sneezing and sneezing.

Either leave the cat at the vet, in the car (which seems cruel in this weather but you know how long you’ll be, whether you can park in the shade etc.) or wait and do your shopping another time.

Marwoodsbigbreak · 15/09/2023 18:16

Redebs · 15/09/2023 17:39

You do know that cats carry diseases that can be passed to humans, don't you?

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And children don’t?!

I am surprised at the people whose supermarkets are dog free. I travel a lot for work and reckon I see a dog in a supermarket more often than not.

It is the norm now, whether you like it or not.

There is no certification required for an assistance animal to enter a shop so maybe they’ve just given up. I’m glad, it makes my shopping trips far more enjoyable.

GalileoHumpkins · 15/09/2023 18:24

MariePaperRoses · 15/09/2023 17:39

That's epic 😂

BrontëParsonage · 15/09/2023 18:27

@Marwoodsbigbreak none of the big name supermarkets permit dogs in store, except service dogs. Also, as the parent of a blind child who does not yet have a Guide Dog (LONG waiting list), I honestly think it is morally bankrupt of people who have no need to rely on their dogs as assistance pets to take advantage by sneaking their dogs into food stores under the guise of them being support animals. It’s a bit like the fuckers who park in disabled spaces without having a legit Blue Badge, because, you know, they’ll only be five minutes. Leave them at home!

ohdamnitjanet · 15/09/2023 18:30

If I worked in a supermarket and someone tried to bring in a cat I’d stop them without a seconds thought.

Thighdentitycrisis · 15/09/2023 18:45

I left my car with the security desk by the entrance at Waitrose on the way back from the vet