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I don't think the rules about bringing dogs into stores and other establishments has changed, it's more like that sense of entitlement and everyone else be damned mentality that lets people assume it's perfectly fine to bring their dogs into stores, restaurants and anywhere else is not challenged. Managers don't often say anything to those dog owners toting li'l "Phydeaux" around in a store, or in a restaurant-or huge "Bruise-ter" either, for that matter.And that sense of entitlement that allows folks to believe that their dog should be welcomed with open arms and a big ribbon-wrapped bone anywhere they take them is often accompanied by a sense of outrage that will be directed at anyone who takes exception to their pweshus pup in an establishment which traditionally has been off-limits to dogs with the exception of service dogs. And it just seems people don't want that kind of confrontation, so they don't say anything. And so the practice continues.
I believe more people are bringing their dogs into stores and restaurants because business owners are afraid of lawsuits. Employees are allowed to ask only two specific questions of anyone entering with an animal:
1. Is this a service animal required because of a disability?
2. What task has this animal been trained to perform?
If the pet owner answers yes to #1 and pretty much anything to #2, the employee must allow the animal on the premises. No license or other paperwork identifying the animal as a service animal is required, nor is the employee allowed to ask for such.
From the tone of your posts it sounds as though you could use some anger management sessions.
This seems to be a common insult these days leveled on people who merely disagree with you. What's worse is the obvious passive aggressiveness with which it is usually uttered, under the guise of genuine concern.
It's called the "I'm weird and put my dog in a stroller and rock him in in my arms like a baby line".
You don't get to decide what they line is for anybody else though. You sound like a control freak.
My dog has been everything to me since I lost my son. So basically if I want to sing "zip a dee do dah" to him while vacuuming naked, I think I'm entitled to do so without being judged by faceless people on the Internet who know SQUAT about the Hell I've been through.
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