Three pet dogs in Trader Joe’s this morning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of narcissist bring their pet dog to a grocery store??!

A service animal must be trained to perform specific tasks to aid someone. “therapy” and “emotional support” dogs are nothing more than pets.

Stop bringing your pet animals to grocery stores. It’s so gross and selfish.

What town, OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of narcissist bring their pet dog to a grocery store??!

A service animal must be trained to perform specific tasks to aid someone. “therapy” and “emotional support” dogs are nothing more than pets.

Stop bringing your pet animals to grocery stores. It’s so gross and selfish.

Report the store for breaking the law.

What law?

[Anonymous]

It really cracks me up how people confuse "what they think shouldn't happen" with something that is "against the law."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dogs are cleaner than some people. Bet they didn’t steal anything either. MYOB

It's against the law, moron. Dogs and animals are not allowed in any kind of restaurant, cafe, grocery store or anywhere else where they serve or sell food, period. It is explicitly stated in FDA Food Code. So many restaurants and stores violate the law.

Get dogs out of stores and restaurants and start obeying the law. Dumb dog owners are so entitled.

The "FDA Food Code" is not law. Moron. Point to a law.

Actually, it also does not recommend prohibiting animals from these establishments.

You guys' bickering, is pointless. If any establishment says "service dogs only" then that is the establishment's rules and law, FDA be damned. And any business is allowed to ask any dog owner, what specific tasks that dog has been trained to perform to aid the health of it's owner. If the person refuses to answer, the person can be legally denied entry.

Keep your dogs at home, selfish jerks.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dogs are cleaner than some people. Bet they didn’t steal anything either. MYOB

It's against the law, moron. Dogs and animals are not allowed in any kind of restaurant, cafe, grocery store or anywhere else where they serve or sell food, period. It is explicitly stated in FDA Food Code. So many restaurants and stores violate the law.

Get dogs out of stores and restaurants and start obeying the law. Dumb dog owners are so entitled.

The "FDA Food Code" is not law. Moron. Point to a law.

Actually, it also does not recommend prohibiting animals from these establishments.

You guys' bickering, is pointless. If any establishment says "service dogs only" then that is the establishment's rules and law, FDA be damned. And any business is allowed to ask any dog owner, what specific tasks that dog has been trained to perform to aid the health of it's owner. If the person refuses to answer, the person can be legally denied entry.

Keep your dogs at home, selfish jerks.

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So if a business gets to decide....and they have decided to allow dogs without restriction as to whether they are "service dogs", and they have not been denied entry.....what is the problem? Seems to me that any customer or potential customer is free not to go to that establishment.

[Anonymous]

I was at a hair salon and some guy brought his dog in and let his dog poop on the floor. He didn't clean it all up. People are so selfish and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dogs are cleaner than some people. Bet they didn’t steal anything either. MYOB

It's against the law, moron. Dogs and animals are not allowed in any kind of restaurant, cafe, grocery store or anywhere else where they serve or sell food, period. It is explicitly stated in FDA Food Code. So many restaurants and stores violate the law.

Get dogs out of stores and restaurants and start obeying the law. Dumb dog owners are so entitled.

The "FDA Food Code" is not law. Moron. Point to a law.

Actually, it also does not recommend prohibiting animals from these establishments.

You guys' bickering, is pointless. If any establishment says "service dogs only" then that is the establishment's rules and law, FDA be damned. And any business is allowed to ask any dog owner, what specific tasks that dog has been trained to perform to aid the health of it's owner. If the person refuses to answer, the person can be legally denied entry.

Keep your dogs at home, selfish jerks.

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So if a business gets to decide....and they have decided to allow dogs without restriction as to whether they are "service dogs", and they have not been denied entry.....what is the problem? Seems to me that any customer or potential customer is free not to go to that establishment.

The problem is when there is a sign on the entrance door to the store that shows no dogs allowed unless it's a service dog, and there are people that still take their dogs into the store. Sure, some of us might at times not be able to recognize a true service dog from a regular dog. However, the service dogs that I have seen with people with physical disabilities all seem to know how to behave. When I'm in a store and I see some little dog in a cart and yapping at shoppers going by I tend to think to myself that that particular dog is not a real service dog so it shouldn't be in the store.

As for a pet friendly stores. I used to work part time at Home Depot when I was attending college. It shameful the amount of times that we found dog poop in the outside garden department because some shitty dog owner felt it was OK to let their dog poop in a store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of narcissist bring their pet dog to a grocery store??!

A service animal must be trained to perform specific tasks to aid someone. “therapy” and “emotional support” dogs are nothing more than pets.

Stop bringing your pet animals to grocery stores. It’s so gross and selfish.

Report the store for breaking the law.

What law?

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/laws-regarding-dogs-grocery-store-60614.html

Laws and regulations restrict the presence of animals in businesses that prepare, sell or serve food. However, there are exceptions for patrons accompanied by a service dog. As a grocery store owner, you and your staff should be prepared to work with and accommodate customers who have service animals, also enforcing health and sanitation laws.

Health and Safety Regulations
State and local laws generally prohibit animals in grocery stores. This is because food is prepared, stored and sold in these businesses, and the presence of an animal could pose a sanitation risk. As a grocery store owner, it's up to you to uphold the law. The most obvious way to keep pets out of your store is to place signs at every entrance.

Service Animal Exceptions
Federal law does allow people with disabilities to bring their service dogs into grocery stores. Unfortunately, there is some confusion about what qualifies as a service animal, which occasionally causes ill will between store owners and customers. The confusion often centers on the differences between a service animal and an emotional support animal. Although the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all business owners, including grocery store owners, allow service dogs in their facilities, the same is not true for patrons who have emotional support animals.

Service Animals Definition
The ADA defines a service animal as a dog that has undergone specialized training to perform specific tasks for its handlers, and these tasks must be related to the handler's disability. For example, a seeing-eye dog is trained to safely guide somebody with a visual impairment through indoor and outdoor environments. Other types of dogs may be trained to perform tasks such as reminding a person with depression to take his or her medication, alerting someone with diabetes that their blood sugar is low or signaling to somebody with epilepsy that a seizure is imminent and then providing protection during the event.

As the store owner, it is up to you to train your staff to permit service dogs in your establishment. many handlers place a special jacket or harness on their dog that indicates its status as a service animal. Although handlers are not required to produce any kind of documentation that verifies the dogs' service annual status, you and your staff are permitted to ask two questions of the handler:

Is your dog a service animal?
What tasks does it perform?

Emotional Support Animal Definition
An emotional support animal provides care and comfort to an owner who is living with mental illness or is coping with some form of emotional distress. It is not trained to perform tasks, such as bringing its owner medication, and is therefore not considered a service animal. While landlords are obligated to accommodate emotional support animals in rental units that generally do not permit pets, this accommodation does not extend to public spaces, such as grocery stores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of narcissist bring their pet dog to a grocery store??!

A service animal must be trained to perform specific tasks to aid someone. “therapy” and “emotional support” dogs are nothing more than pets.

Stop bringing your pet animals to grocery stores. It’s so gross and selfish.

Report the store for breaking the law.

What law?

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/laws-regarding-dogs-grocery-store-60614.html

Laws and regulations restrict the presence of animals in businesses that prepare, sell or serve food. However, there are exceptions for patrons accompanied by a service dog. As a grocery store owner, you and your staff should be prepared to work with and accommodate customers who have service animals, also enforcing health and sanitation laws.

Health and Safety Regulations
State and local laws generally prohibit animals in grocery stores. This is because food is prepared, stored and sold in these businesses, and the presence of an animal could pose a sanitation risk. As a grocery store owner, it's up to you to uphold the law. The most obvious way to keep pets out of your store is to place signs at every entrance.

Service Animal Exceptions
Federal law does allow people with disabilities to bring their service dogs into grocery stores. Unfortunately, there is some confusion about what qualifies as a service animal, which occasionally causes ill will between store owners and customers. The confusion often centers on the differences between a service animal and an emotional support animal. Although the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all business owners, including grocery store owners, allow service dogs in their facilities, the same is not true for patrons who have emotional support animals.

Service Animals Definition
The ADA defines a service animal as a dog that has undergone specialized training to perform specific tasks for its handlers, and these tasks must be related to the handler's disability. For example, a seeing-eye dog is trained to safely guide somebody with a visual impairment through indoor and outdoor environments. Other types of dogs may be trained to perform tasks such as reminding a person with depression to take his or her medication, alerting someone with diabetes that their blood sugar is low or signaling to somebody with epilepsy that a seizure is imminent and then providing protection during the event.

As the store owner, it is up to you to train your staff to permit service dogs in your establishment. many handlers place a special jacket or harness on their dog that indicates its status as a service animal. Although handlers are not required to produce any kind of documentation that verifies the dogs' service annual status, you and your staff are permitted to ask two questions of the handler:

Is your dog a service animal?
What tasks does it perform?

Emotional Support Animal Definition
An emotional support animal provides care and comfort to an owner who is living with mental illness or is coping with some form of emotional distress. It is not trained to perform tasks, such as bringing its owner medication, and is therefore not considered a service animal. While landlords are obligated to accommodate emotional support animals in rental units that generally do not permit pets, this accommodation does not extend to public spaces, such as grocery stores.

You have cited a news article, not a law. Point me to the law, please.

[Anonymous]

Except as specified in subsections B and C of this section, live animals shall not be allowed on the premises of a food establishment.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/virginia/12VAC5-421-3310

"Food establishment" means an operation that (i) stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends food directly to the consumer, or otherwise provides food to the public for human consumption ….

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/virginia/12VAC5-421-10

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of narcissist bring their pet dog to a grocery store??!

A service animal must be trained to perform specific tasks to aid someone. “therapy” and “emotional support” dogs are nothing more than pets.

Stop bringing your pet animals to grocery stores. It’s so gross and selfish.

Report the store for breaking the law.

What law?

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/laws-regarding-dogs-grocery-store-60614.html

Laws and regulations restrict the presence of animals in businesses that prepare, sell or serve food. However, there are exceptions for patrons accompanied by a service dog. As a grocery store owner, you and your staff should be prepared to work with and accommodate customers who have service animals, also enforcing health and sanitation laws.

Health and Safety Regulations
State and local laws generally prohibit animals in grocery stores. This is because food is prepared, stored and sold in these businesses, and the presence of an animal could pose a sanitation risk. As a grocery store owner, it's up to you to uphold the law. The most obvious way to keep pets out of your store is to place signs at every entrance.

Service Animal Exceptions
Federal law does allow people with disabilities to bring their service dogs into grocery stores. Unfortunately, there is some confusion about what qualifies as a service animal, which occasionally causes ill will between store owners and customers. The confusion often centers on the differences between a service animal and an emotional support animal. Although the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all business owners, including grocery store owners, allow service dogs in their facilities, the same is not true for patrons who have emotional support animals.

Service Animals Definition
The ADA defines a service animal as a dog that has undergone specialized training to perform specific tasks for its handlers, and these tasks must be related to the handler's disability. For example, a seeing-eye dog is trained to safely guide somebody with a visual impairment through indoor and outdoor environments. Other types of dogs may be trained to perform tasks such as reminding a person with depression to take his or her medication, alerting someone with diabetes that their blood sugar is low or signaling to somebody with epilepsy that a seizure is imminent and then providing protection during the event.

As the store owner, it is up to you to train your staff to permit service dogs in your establishment. many handlers place a special jacket or harness on their dog that indicates its status as a service animal. Although handlers are not required to produce any kind of documentation that verifies the dogs' service annual status, you and your staff are permitted to ask two questions of the handler:

Is your dog a service animal?
What tasks does it perform?

Emotional Support Animal Definition
An emotional support animal provides care and comfort to an owner who is living with mental illness or is coping with some form of emotional distress. It is not trained to perform tasks, such as bringing its owner medication, and is therefore not considered a service animal. While landlords are obligated to accommodate emotional support animals in rental units that generally do not permit pets, this accommodation does not extend to public spaces, such as grocery stores.

You have cited a news article, not a law. Point me to the law, please.

[Anonymous]

I was disgusted to see someone put their little dog into the shopping cart where the food goes. Yes, I said something.

I love my dogs but I leave mine home. You should too unless they are on duty keeping you healthy and safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of narcissist bring their pet dog to a grocery store??!

A service animal must be trained to perform specific tasks to aid someone. “therapy” and “emotional support” dogs are nothing more than pets.

Stop bringing your pet animals to grocery stores. It’s so gross and selfish.

Report the store for breaking the law.

What law?

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/laws-regarding-dogs-grocery-store-60614.html

Laws and regulations restrict the presence of animals in businesses that prepare, sell or serve food. However, there are exceptions for patrons accompanied by a service dog. As a grocery store owner, you and your staff should be prepared to work with and accommodate customers who have service animals, also enforcing health and sanitation laws.

Health and Safety Regulations
State and local laws generally prohibit animals in grocery stores. This is because food is prepared, stored and sold in these businesses, and the presence of an animal could pose a sanitation risk. As a grocery store owner, it's up to you to uphold the law. The most obvious way to keep pets out of your store is to place signs at every entrance.

Service Animal Exceptions
Federal law does allow people with disabilities to bring their service dogs into grocery stores. Unfortunately, there is some confusion about what qualifies as a service animal, which occasionally causes ill will between store owners and customers. The confusion often centers on the differences between a service animal and an emotional support animal. Although the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all business owners, including grocery store owners, allow service dogs in their facilities, the same is not true for patrons who have emotional support animals.

Service Animals Definition
The ADA defines a service animal as a dog that has undergone specialized training to perform specific tasks for its handlers, and these tasks must be related to the handler's disability. For example, a seeing-eye dog is trained to safely guide somebody with a visual impairment through indoor and outdoor environments. Other types of dogs may be trained to perform tasks such as reminding a person with depression to take his or her medication, alerting someone with diabetes that their blood sugar is low or signaling to somebody with epilepsy that a seizure is imminent and then providing protection during the event.

As the store owner, it is up to you to train your staff to permit service dogs in your establishment. many handlers place a special jacket or harness on their dog that indicates its status as a service animal. Although handlers are not required to produce any kind of documentation that verifies the dogs' service annual status, you and your staff are permitted to ask two questions of the handler:

Is your dog a service animal?
What tasks does it perform?

Emotional Support Animal Definition
An emotional support animal provides care and comfort to an owner who is living with mental illness or is coping with some form of emotional distress. It is not trained to perform tasks, such as bringing its owner medication, and is therefore not considered a service animal. While landlords are obligated to accommodate emotional support animals in rental units that generally do not permit pets, this accommodation does not extend to public spaces, such as grocery stores.

You have cited a news article, not a law. Point me to the law, please.

I can’t believe that you actually need to be told this is illegal. But here you go.

Section 3214 https://dchealth.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/doh/publication/attachments/DC%20Register_Nov_30_2012_Final%20Rulemaking_DOH%20-%2025A%20DCMR%20-%20Food%20and%20Food%20Operationspdf.pdf

They updated the code to allow animals on *outdoor* patios of restaurants with the understand that they have to be able to access said patio without ever being indoors.

https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/8-1865.02#:~:text=(a)(1)%20Notwithstanding,or%20in%20unenclosed%20sidewalk%20cafés.