I’m so sick of dogs everywhere

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker has been bringing her dog into the office! No one asked whether it was okay with everyone else who works there. This isn’t a service dog.

How do you know, with certainty, that it's not a service animal? Does it have a little sign that says "100% pure pet. Not a service animal"? Because unless it does, you may be very wrong about the dog's purpose.

Service dogs should have some sort of ID, a badge, special vest, or special dog collar that's official and that only service dogs can wear. That way they are easy to spot and identify. The same way your car has to have a disabled parking permit on display for you to park in a disabled parking spot could be done for animals also.

No official ID to show that it's a service dog, then no entry to restaurants, bars etc.

also, real service dogs, because of their training, are well behaved in public.

Everyone with a dog should be required to get a dog that has undergone training like service dogs. Please, for society's sake.

That would honestly be amazing. It would also magically cure my kid of her fear of dogs overnight, I suspect. She is super skittish around dogs on sidewalks and at the park, but then her class did a field trip to the police station and she met a police dog and happily gave him pets (with permission from his trainer) and interacted with him. She could just tell he was not a threat to her in any way.

Very different from the idiots who let their dogs off leash at our local park (right in front of numerous signs stating "No dogs off leash" and "No dogs on playground") and then when the dog bounds right up to my kid while she's playing and she screams and runs away, they get all offended and will sit there explaining "she's just the sweetest dog, she'd never hurt anyone!" Actually she's an untrained animal that you don't even bother to keep on a leash, and she could easily ruin some child's entire life if accidentally provoked because you've done nothing to prevent that from happening, you f***ing moron.

[Anonymous]

I saw a huge old retriever in the freezer aisle at the grocery store the other day. At first I was a little taken aback, but the dog and its owner were so friendly looking, we ended up chatting for 10 Mn.

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker has been bringing her dog into the office! No one asked whether it was okay with everyone else who works there. This isn’t a service dog.

How do you know, with certainty, that it's not a service animal? Does it have a little sign that says "100% pure pet. Not a service animal"? Because unless it does, you may be very wrong about the dog's purpose.

Service dogs should have some sort of ID, a badge, special vest, or special dog collar that's official and that only service dogs can wear. That way they are easy to spot and identify. The same way your car has to have a disabled parking permit on display for you to park in a disabled parking spot could be done for animals also.

No official ID to show that it's a service dog, then no entry to restaurants, bars etc.

also, real service dogs, because of their training, are well behaved in public.

Everyone with a dog should be required to get a dog that has undergone training like service dogs. Please, for society's sake.

That would honestly be amazing. It would also magically cure my kid of her fear of dogs overnight, I suspect. She is super skittish around dogs on sidewalks and at the park, but then her class did a field trip to the police station and she met a police dog and happily gave him pets (with permission from his trainer) and interacted with him. She could just tell he was not a threat to her in any way.

Very different from the idiots who let their dogs off leash at our local park (right in front of numerous signs stating "No dogs off leash" and "No dogs on playground") and then when the dog bounds right up to my kid while she's playing and she screams and runs away, they get all offended and will sit there explaining "she's just the sweetest dog, she'd never hurt anyone!" Actually she's an untrained animal that you don't even bother to keep on a leash, and she could easily ruin some child's entire life if accidentally provoked because you've done nothing to prevent that from happening, you f***ing moron.

Are you the one calling people ‘morons’ in the other pet threads? Your dd has much bigger problems than a dog running up to her… if this is so upsetting to you and to her (I can only assume your anxiety is contagious), she’s going to need a lot of help in the world

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker has been bringing her dog into the office! No one asked whether it was okay with everyone else who works there. This isn’t a service dog.

How do you know, with certainty, that it's not a service animal? Does it have a little sign that says "100% pure pet. Not a service animal"? Because unless it does, you may be very wrong about the dog's purpose.

Service dogs should have some sort of ID, a badge, special vest, or special dog collar that's official and that only service dogs can wear. That way they are easy to spot and identify. The same way your car has to have a disabled parking permit on display for you to park in a disabled parking spot could be done for animals also.

No official ID to show that it's a service dog, then no entry to restaurants, bars etc.

also, real service dogs, because of their training, are well behaved in public.

Everyone with a dog should be required to get a dog that has undergone training like service dogs. Please, for society's sake.

That would honestly be amazing. It would also magically cure my kid of her fear of dogs overnight, I suspect. She is super skittish around dogs on sidewalks and at the park, but then her class did a field trip to the police station and she met a police dog and happily gave him pets (with permission from his trainer) and interacted with him. She could just tell he was not a threat to her in any way.

Very different from the idiots who let their dogs off leash at our local park (right in front of numerous signs stating "No dogs off leash" and "No dogs on playground") and then when the dog bounds right up to my kid while she's playing and she screams and runs away, they get all offended and will sit there explaining "she's just the sweetest dog, she'd never hurt anyone!" Actually she's an untrained animal that you don't even bother to keep on a leash, and she could easily ruin some child's entire life if accidentally provoked because you've done nothing to prevent that from happening, you f***ing moron.

Are you the one calling people ‘morons’ in the other pet threads? Your dd has much bigger problems than a dog running up to her… if this is so upsetting to you and to her (I can only assume your anxiety is contagious), she’s going to need a lot of help in the world

Nah you are the moron. Many kids are fearful.
-DP

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Anonymous wrote:I saw a huge old retriever in the freezer aisle at the grocery store the other day. At first I was a little taken aback, but the dog and its owner were so friendly looking, we ended up chatting for 10 Mn.

The need for people to bring their dogs when in public? sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker has been bringing her dog into the office! No one asked whether it was okay with everyone else who works there. This isn’t a service dog.

I don't know that people need to take an office-wide opinion poll about something like this in a privately-owned workspace. I'm assuming the boss is okay with it or it wouldn't be happening. You're probably not entitled to a dog-free workspace, so if it bothers you, quit.

Sure! Until someone gets bitten or maimed and they get sued out of wazoo.

Why are you always making up problems where none actually exist? Is it fun for you? Is ordinary life too happy and easy for you, so you have to come up with a make-believe catastrophe?

Do you mean to tell me dogs never bite or attack? Why do you choose to live in some alternate reality where that never happens?

Despite the number of horrifically-unprepared/uneducated/incompetent dog owners these days, bite incidents are rare. The sort of person who'd get a dog cleared to be in a work environment is unlikely to have a poorly-trained dog, and the laws that govern the dog apply in the office so this person is more accountable than the average random person you might encounter on the street. Surely a business has contemplated the liability concerns; your ability to sue for damages extends not only to the dogowner, but the boss who let the dog be in your office.

But more than that, I want to point out that there are a few known catastrophe-pron posters who like to worst-case devil's advocate on this forum. There's a dog on a plane doing nothing, and these people start mess about "But what if it did?!!" and this is another example.

It is your perception that dog attacks are rare. I'd love to see the statistics on that before just taking your word for it.

I guess by the same token, there are pie in the sky people who would inflict their dog on anyone and everyone because they refuse to acknowledge that some people just don't want to be around them or that they could potentially hurt another human very badly.

What you are saying is that you would rather see your fellow human have to quit their job and have no income rather than keep your dog at home?

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7236a6.htm

And no, that's not what I'm saying. At all. That's a nonsense argument that sounds like something a shitposting troll would post just to start mess.

Not every dog attack results in a death (thankfully). You were saying that bite incidents are rare. They are not.

Do you have statistics to back your claim that dog bite incidents are not a rare occurrence? This is your position. Defend it.

NP.
There are 4.5 million bites a year per the AVMA.

Bites are often legally defined as breaking the skin or clamping down hard enough to cause injury.

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker has been bringing her dog into the office! No one asked whether it was okay with everyone else who works there. This isn’t a service dog.

How do you know, with certainty, that it's not a service animal? Does it have a little sign that says "100% pure pet. Not a service animal"? Because unless it does, you may be very wrong about the dog's purpose.

Service dogs should have some sort of ID, a badge, special vest, or special dog collar that's official and that only service dogs can wear. That way they are easy to spot and identify. The same way your car has to have a disabled parking permit on display for you to park in a disabled parking spot could be done for animals also.

No official ID to show that it's a service dog, then no entry to restaurants, bars etc.

also, real service dogs, because of their training, are well behaved in public.

Everyone with a dog should be required to get a dog that has undergone training like service dogs. Please, for society's sake.

That would honestly be amazing. It would also magically cure my kid of her fear of dogs overnight, I suspect. She is super skittish around dogs on sidewalks and at the park, but then her class did a field trip to the police station and she met a police dog and happily gave him pets (with permission from his trainer) and interacted with him. She could just tell he was not a threat to her in any way.

Very different from the idiots who let their dogs off leash at our local park (right in front of numerous signs stating "No dogs off leash" and "No dogs on playground") and then when the dog bounds right up to my kid while she's playing and she screams and runs away, they get all offended and will sit there explaining "she's just the sweetest dog, she'd never hurt anyone!" Actually she's an untrained animal that you don't even bother to keep on a leash, and she could easily ruin some child's entire life if accidentally provoked because you've done nothing to prevent that from happening, you f***ing moron.

Are you the one calling people ‘morons’ in the other pet threads? Your dd has much bigger problems than a dog running up to her… if this is so upsetting to you and to her (I can only assume your anxiety is contagious), she’s going to need a lot of help in the world

Nah you are the moron. Many kids are fearful.
-DP

And a parent should not encourage this

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Anonymous wrote:I saw a huge old retriever in the freezer aisle at the grocery store the other day. At first I was a little taken aback, but the dog and its owner were so friendly looking, we ended up chatting for 10 Mn.

Was the dog well behaved (not sniffing stuff, not approaching people, staying focused on its owner?). It could have been a service dog.

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Dog rule

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker has been bringing her dog into the office! No one asked whether it was okay with everyone else who works there. This isn’t a service dog.

How do you know, with certainty, that it's not a service animal? Does it have a little sign that says "100% pure pet. Not a service animal"? Because unless it does, you may be very wrong about the dog's purpose.

Service dogs should have some sort of ID, a badge, special vest, or special dog collar that's official and that only service dogs can wear. That way they are easy to spot and identify. The same way your car has to have a disabled parking permit on display for you to park in a disabled parking spot could be done for animals also.

No official ID to show that it's a service dog, then no entry to restaurants, bars etc.

also, real service dogs, because of their training, are well behaved in public.

Everyone with a dog should be required to get a dog that has undergone training like service dogs. Please, for society's sake.

That would honestly be amazing. It would also magically cure my kid of her fear of dogs overnight, I suspect. She is super skittish around dogs on sidewalks and at the park, but then her class did a field trip to the police station and she met a police dog and happily gave him pets (with permission from his trainer) and interacted with him. She could just tell he was not a threat to her in any way.

Very different from the idiots who let their dogs off leash at our local park (right in front of numerous signs stating "No dogs off leash" and "No dogs on playground") and then when the dog bounds right up to my kid while she's playing and she screams and runs away, they get all offended and will sit there explaining "she's just the sweetest dog, she'd never hurt anyone!" Actually she's an untrained animal that you don't even bother to keep on a leash, and she could easily ruin some child's entire life if accidentally provoked because you've done nothing to prevent that from happening, you f***ing moron.

Are you the one calling people ‘morons’ in the other pet threads? Your dd has much bigger problems than a dog running up to her… if this is so upsetting to you and to her (I can only assume your anxiety is contagious), she’s going to need a lot of help in the world

Nah you are the moron. Many kids are fearful.
-DP

And a parent should not encourage this

Encourage what? Being afraid of off leash, untrained dogs in places they are not supposed to be? Why?

It's very normal for a person who is two feet tall to be wary of an animal the same height who has teeth and claws and dies not appear to be under the control of a human. It's not a phobia, it's a natural impulse towards self preservation.

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I’m just going to jump in without reading anything and simply say - I told my daughter who is highly allergic to dogs that if she’s ever stuck beside one on a plane she has no obligation to cover her mouth as she sneezes the entire flight and feel free to turn her head towards the dog owner.

You bring your dog, you deal with peoples’ allergies.

Flame away.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m just going to jump in without reading anything and simply say - I told my daughter who is highly allergic to dogs that if she’s ever stuck beside one on a plane she has no obligation to cover her mouth as she sneezes the entire flight and feel free to turn her head towards the dog owner.

You bring your dog, you deal with peoples’ allergies.

Flame away.

Fine. A lawsuit against the dog owner or handler in aisle 12 seat 3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I saw a huge old retriever in the freezer aisle at the grocery store the other day. At first I was a little taken aback, but the dog and its owner were so friendly looking, we ended up chatting for 10 Mn.

Was the dog well behaved (not sniffing stuff, not approaching people, staying focused on its owner?). It could have been a service dog.

No, it was not a service dog. But it was a nice old mellow dog and the woman said she goes almost everywhere with him, and there was no reason he shouldnt go in the grocery store with her.

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker has been bringing her dog into the office! No one asked whether it was okay with everyone else who works there. This isn’t a service dog.

How do you know, with certainty, that it's not a service animal? Does it have a little sign that says "100% pure pet. Not a service animal"? Because unless it does, you may be very wrong about the dog's purpose.

Service dogs should have some sort of ID, a badge, special vest, or special dog collar that's official and that only service dogs can wear. That way they are easy to spot and identify. The same way your car has to have a disabled parking permit on display for you to park in a disabled parking spot could be done for animals also.

No official ID to show that it's a service dog, then no entry to restaurants, bars etc.

also, real service dogs, because of their training, are well behaved in public.

Everyone with a dog should be required to get a dog that has undergone training like service dogs. Please, for society's sake.

That would honestly be amazing. It would also magically cure my kid of her fear of dogs overnight, I suspect. She is super skittish around dogs on sidewalks and at the park, but then her class did a field trip to the police station and she met a police dog and happily gave him pets (with permission from his trainer) and interacted with him. She could just tell he was not a threat to her in any way.

Very different from the idiots who let their dogs off leash at our local park (right in front of numerous signs stating "No dogs off leash" and "No dogs on playground") and then when the dog bounds right up to my kid while she's playing and she screams and runs away, they get all offended and will sit there explaining "she's just the sweetest dog, she'd never hurt anyone!" Actually she's an untrained animal that you don't even bother to keep on a leash, and she could easily ruin some child's entire life if accidentally provoked because you've done nothing to prevent that from happening, you f***ing moron.

Are you the one calling people ‘morons’ in the other pet threads? Your dd has much bigger problems than a dog running up to her… if this is so upsetting to you and to her (I can only assume your anxiety is contagious), she’s going to need a lot of help in the world

Nah you are the moron. Many kids are fearful.
-DP

And a parent should not encourage this

Encourage what? Being afraid of off leash, untrained dogs in places they are not supposed to be? Why?

It's very normal for a person who is two feet tall to be wary of an animal the same height who has teeth and claws and dies not appear to be under the control of a human. It's not a phobia, it's a natural impulse towards self preservation.

Sure, its normal to have *some* trepidation, but as a parent, I would want to try to discourage excessive anxiety in my child and teach them how to engage with dogs because they will encounter them throughout their lives, and yes, some will approach them. As opposed to the people on this forum who are 'so upset' about a dog coming up to them, or the ones talking about knifing or shooting 'any animal that approaches me!!' NUTS.

I suspect that the people on here lurking around who get so upset about these relatively minor interactions with dogs are those with aggressive pet breeds themselves. Do you have any dogs? What kind?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m just going to jump in without reading anything and simply say - I told my daughter who is highly allergic to dogs that if she’s ever stuck beside one on a plane she has no obligation to cover her mouth as she sneezes the entire flight and feel free to turn her head towards the dog owner.

You bring your dog, you deal with peoples’ allergies.

Flame away.

DP, sorry, why wouldn't she just ask to move? the airline would likely accommodate... weird that your recommendation is to escalate the aggression, instead of finding a work around for everyone....