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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some dogs are not happy staying alone and have bad anxiety.  Ours does.  Mine tries to come everywhere with us and loves it.  The dog should have been leashed or in a carrier.[/quote]

So now everyone else has to deal with your dog out in public?  Entitlement at its finest. [/quote]

We have to deal with a lot of things!  One person's 'entitlement' is another person's  necessity.[/quote]

Nice try but everything isn't the same. Bringing your dog to the grocery store because you don't want to have to take him home to crate him and then come back to the store is NOT the same as a bus taking longer at a stop to assist someone in a wheelchair getting on and secured, or a woman in labor asking to be allowed to the front of a long exit line so she can get to the hospital, or a deaf person asking for an accommodation at the movie theater.

Some people have actual needs and being unable to comply with legal bans on dogs in certain places is not one of them (unless you have an actual trained service animal, and no, your "emotional support" claims do not count). Dog bans are pretty much always for public health reasons. It is unsanitary to have dogs in places where foods is being prepared, served, or otherwise exposed to the air, because dogs shed, release dander, and salivate in ways that may contaminate the food. In certain indoor settings, dogs are banned to accommodate people with pet allergies who actually need to be there. Dogs are often not allowed from spaces designed for children because the small size and unpredictable nature of young kids make the risks of a dog biting a child or knocking one down unacceptably high. And so on. Service dogs are excepted from these rules because the need of the person using the service animal is considered greater than these risks, and they are chosen and trained extensively to be non-reactive and pose less of a danger. Increasingly service dogs are also chosen for being low-shed dogs who may be more hygienic in enclosed spaces, not least because the people who need service animals sometimes have allergies too, and also often do not have the ability to religiously vacuum their homes after a high-shed dog.

Anyway, we get it. You are selfish. We knew that already.[/quote]

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