To think The Range has made a stupid decision

[hellolittleduck]

“CDS Superstores has announced a major change to The Range stores' entry requirements. Dog owners will no longer need to leave their pets outside or at home as stores across the UK are now completely dog-friendly.“

What’s the point of this other than to make shopping in The Range a miserable experience? Am I the only one who thinks it’s disgusting to have filthy dogs running around soft furnishings and fragile displays, potentially pissing on things? I assume people with dog allergies are just irrelevant then. Navigating the shop is already a nightmare when it’s busy, who wants dogs who have been rolling around in God knows what to be taking up the aisles? Think it’ll be online orders only from now on…

I have dogs but I also agree they shouldn't be in shops unless they are service or guide dogs. That said, is anyone actually taking them up on it other than for the novelty of it at the beginning?

Kids don't approach me in cafes. Maybe I just look like a miserable wotsit!

They don't generally bother me anywhere, unless they are screaming and giving everyone within a mile radius a headache.

However, many dogs approach people. And their owners do nothing. And that's what bothers people.

I've seen them in department stores and garden centres (the indoor bits). I think people do things because they can. Also, having a dog (or several) is a status symbol. Dogs are expensive. And of course you need the expensive SUV as well, so it's the whole well to do package. So you have to take the dog and the SUV shopping, even if you can walk to your local shop in 5 minutes.

Although I am not sure that fits in with the Range. John Lewis, sure.

My 4 year old DS wouldn't be babbling at a random adult. He wouldn't want to and we've brought him up better than that. Dogs have no control if they like the smell of your crotch.

I don’t have to resort to anything. I can choose to shop either online or in places that are dog free. Your tone is confrontational and quite unnecessary. The fact remains that the households without dogs are the majority.

Just to come back to this, you absolutely can get rid of a "service" dog if it is clearly not behaving like one.

If it's out of control and peeing everywhere, it's not a service dog.

Even the EHRC guidance which says you can't ask for evidence, says that effectively you will know it's fine because it behaves itself. However, when it doesn't, it's a bit too late.

Also back in the day it used to be a selling point on ebay that things came from a pet- and smoke-free home!

Clearly there was some reason why being pet-free was a good thing.

That’s often added to local FB selling pages too.

Those “vanity projects” who go on to pay the taxes which fund dogshit bins, street cleaning, parks maintenance, police time wasted by dangerous dogs, as well as their owners future state pensions, NHS treatments, winter fuel allowance, free prescriptions, free bus passes etc. You’d materially miss them if they didn’t exist.

Unlike…dogs.

I come back to this thread and it is people going on about pensions, FFS. Many people who have dogs, also have kids. The pet industry is worth billions, and employs hundreds of thousands of people... who are all paying the pensions of people what are retired now.

Why do these threads always seem to descend into vicious comments aimed at people who have dogs (and it is always the same posters too).
The dig about having dogs at funerals was totally uncalled for. You were not there, so why give a shit?

Yes, my rescue cross breed and my 18 year old estate car is definitely a status symbol. I take them both places so people can wish they had what I have....

I have a dog, but not a car.

📢 “cleaner to aisle two, cleaner to aisle two. Dog shit steaming in aisle two! Oh a child has stood in it. Hurry please” 📢

How very Christian of you

I don't know anyone who uses their dog as some kind of status symbol. Or car, actually.

I really must keep good company.

Not if they're trained not to.

If a cafe is kind enough to welcome dogs surely the owners should be kind enough to make sure their dog is house trained? I’ve never had a dog but surely people don’t just let their dogs pee all over the place in their own homes do they…? 🤔

I am pretty surprised dogs are in supermarkets in the USA unless they are service animals. Why? It is against the law. This is against the Food and Drug Administration laws to have dogs anywhere that serve or sell food. With few exceptions, live animals of any kind are not permitted on the premises of a grocery store, a restaurant or other food establishment. The prohibition applies to dogs, cats, birds and other animals. The law protects the national food supply from contamination from dog drool, urine, feces and other material that dogs carry on their coats and paws and might leave behind on store shelves or counters. Dogs can transmit roundworms to humans and fleas.

Surely cockapoos and range rovers are status symbols

@cuckooooooo that really made me laugh. Mil has a godawful crocheted pillow with "your dog loves you when nobody else does" embroidered on there.

There's a reason for that.

World’s gone mad. Dogs in pubs now dogs in shops. This country has gone to shit

I detest that.A labrador in my pants because I'm having a period.

Try Julie Naismith separation anxiety training. You have to put the work in but people do get results.

I can barely face taking DD into The Range (or any shop for that matter) so no way would I take DDog shopping. Taking the both of them would end up with me rocking back and forth in a darkened room.

I live in quite an aspirational middle class area. Dogs are just another thing to add to the long list of things to show off, and show off about.

They are expensive to keep.