Silliest place you’ve seen a dog owner take their dog

[Soddingcat]

To ask where the silliest / most inappropriate place you’ve seen a dog taken by the owner

Inspired by recent posts complaining about dogs being everywhere in cafes etc

Yesterday in our local Cathedral Easter service , a dog was taken up to the altar for communion with its owners. I’ve seen it all now 😃
I was unfortunately unable to see if they attempted to snaffle a bit of bread for the dog , but it honestly wouldn’t have surprised me
Just why ?

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Dogs at Polling Stations is totally A Thing. BBC News are All Over It on Polling Day. See @votingdogs on twitter.

Things like static holiday parks don't allow you to leave dogs unattended now days. I swear that want the case 30 years ago

That will be because more people have dogs than 30 years ago and the caravan owners can't trust the dog owners not to allow Fido to trash the place whilst they're out for the day. If check-out time is 10am and the next family check in at 4pm, that doesn't leave you much time to sort out new cushions, bedding etc if someone has allowed their dog to chew everything to bits.

We took our dog to the polling station once. She had a toe fetish. The polling clerk was wearing sandals and got an unexpected lick.

Possibly

My mums dog as a kid for example went with them to the beach, and would be tied up by a lamp post while they went off to shops etc.

When we went away as kids, our dog would come but be left in caravans at haven, British holidays etc

Now it's a lot more complicated

Haven allows dogs for examples in a significant portion of their vans. But they don't allow you to leave them, you also aren't allowed to take them where the day time activities are

Realistically I'm sure that most of them expect you to leave your dogs but it a shit situation. People always seem surprised when we follow the rules

You're either a terrible owner breaking rules and the cause of much scorn

Or you're a terrible person according to mumsnet with your dog in museums, shops and restaurants.

Something like 45% of people on holiday in the uk have dogs, it's a large chunk of people/ tourist income to be stuck in eating takeaway each night, never going in shops and only doing woodland walks for the whole holiday.

That's not true and you know it. Cheap point scoring.
And not even a dog to show for it.

Non-farm dogs off leash in fields of ewes and lambs in the Lake District.
Only being friendly.

No you can't
You may have seen a dog in a supermarket, but by law, dogs are forbidden in grocery stores (with the usual exception for assistance dogs)
That's why butchers and bakeries generally have a hook in the wall to leave the dog outside.

It wasn’t me looking under the cubicle.

I'm not sure it's a good idea for dogs to be in clothes shops but as someone else said, some people's lives are complicated. I have a ten year old Bichon who's just lost his best friend. Bichons are notoriously clingy at the best of times so I can't leave him at home (although he's ok in the car while I nip into a shop).

I live alone and have a chronic health condition so often, by the time I've walked my dog, I've got no energy to go back out to get food/run errands. It's much easier if I can pop into the post office etc. whilst I'm out on the dog walk. Even if I'm ok, I have to take the car out so I guess that's not acceptable either.

Ok - apologise for allowing the animal you had responsibility for behaving in an inappropriate way.

My God, this was 25 bloody years ago.

If people have difficult and complicated lives, adding a dog to it has to be managed. It's not fair to therefore expect other people to tolerate it.

It's just a dog peeking its nose under a cubicle divider, not some peeping Tom with a camera

What is wrong about being looked at by an animal? What is going to happen to you?

The Royal Academy. The dog seemed to have no interest whatsoever in the art, but did nearly send flying an elderly lady who was looking at the art rather than watching out for low-level trip hazards. Low lighting, too, so an unexpected and dark coloured dog wasn't that easy to see.

Do you think it preferred figurative or abstract art?

some people's lives are complicated

But if your dog makes your life complicated, that's not other people's problem to solve 🤷‍♀️

Dog ownership is a lifestyle choice. A perfectly valid one that gives many people joy, but a choice nonetheless.

Her favourite pony was on the route. There is no way that any animal would have been allowed into the late Queen's funeral. She was an animal lover, but she understood the limits!

Back in the 50s my mum was out and about and spontaneously decided to see a film in the cinema and completely forgot she had the dog with her until the end of the film when the dog scrambled to get up.

I would have found this very funny and would certainly have said hello to the dog.

The dog seemed to have no interest whatsoever in the art

What a philistine!

(Maybe it preferred music, perhaps something by... Bach? Or Howells?)

Very Good. 🤣

As long as said dog didn't Offenbach it was probably OK.

On a tiny ferry and then into Fingals Cave on Staffa off Iona in Scotland. Poor dog was bloody terrified throughout. Stupid owners.

Sick and tired of smelling dog shit everywhere and seeing 💩 filled bags in hedgerows and sand dunes. if I launched my kids shitty nappy bag into a verge id - quite rightly - be told off but dog owners can get away it seemingly