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[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]

How do you know it was a "pet" or an "emotional support dog" and not a service animal?
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Not the OP, NP, but: Just freaking stop your "but but but how do you knooooww" idiocy.

A service animal is trained at great length and expense, behaves a certain way in public (namely, not like a pet), wears a vest (not a faked one bought off the internet) and often is not on a regular leash but has a type of handle-like lead.

A service dog is NOT going to be riding in a shopping cart or in a stroller or in a baby Bjorn pack or walking on a common leash. And certainly a service dog is not going to be cradled in mommy or daddy's arms while they shop.

You know all this but want to pretend that any dog, any place, might be a service animal so, how dare anyone question the dog's presence! No. Anyone with a grain of common sense knows when they're seeing a pet and not a trained service dog.

To the OP and others who understand that pet dogs have no place in grocery stores: Complain every single time, both at the store itself and by email to the store's corporate headquarters.

To the dog nuts: Take your pet to walk around Home Depot. Seriously. Home Depot allows pet dogs. Go there to show off Fido. 
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I ask because there is so much misinformation about service dogs, and your post is a great example.  Here are some true facts.

1) Service dogs are not required by law to wear vests, and any service dog that is wearing a vest got it from the internet.  Wearing or not wearing a vest is not an indication that a dog is a working service dog.

2) Service dogs can be trained by organizations, by individual trainers, or by their own handlers.  Again this is something well established in the law.  The idea that if you didn't use an expensive training program it isn't a service dog is 100% false.

3) Service dogs can be any breed, including small breeds.  Small dogs are often chosen for jobs that include alerting to things like seizures, low blood sugar, allergens, and panic attacks.  I have a friend whose alert service dog is a Papillon.  You can't get much smaller than that.

4) While there are a few tasks, such as guiding or helping someone who is unsteady on their feet, that require specialized harnesses, there are plenty of other service dogs who wear regular leashes.  In addition, people who have small alert dogs may choose to carry them in a place like Trader Joe's, because it's hard for a dog to pay attention to cues like facial expression when they are far away, and because a very small dog is at risk in an environment with lots of moving carts that can run over them.  Now, I agree they shouldn't be in a cart, but a sling or a backpack, or the handler's hands may be the best place for the dog.

I find it ironic that people complain that big dogs are scary, or they take up too much room, or that people are allergic, and then attack handlers with small service dogs.  You'd think that people would be glad when someone who is able to have a small service dog (not everyone can, because only some tasks are appropriate for small dogs) chooses to do so, since a small dog addresses those concerns.  But instead, handlers with small service dogs are attacked all the time on this forum.

I also find it bizarre that people say "how dare you question!"  You are welcome to question.  The law is very clear on how you should question.  You may ask "Is that a service dog?" and "What task does the dog perform?"  I don't see any indication that OP did that.  [/quote]

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