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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
Report the store for breaking the law.[/quote]

What law?[/quote]

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

[quote][u]Laws and regulations restrict the presence of animals in businesses that prepare, sell or serve food.[/u] 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.

[b]Health and Safety Regulations [/b]
[u]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.[/u] 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.

[b]Service Animal Exceptions[/b]
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. [u]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.[/u]

[b]Service Animals Definition[/b]
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?

[b]Emotional Support Animal Definition[/b]
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.[/quote][/quote]

You have cited a news article, not a law.  Point me to the law, please.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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