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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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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?[/quote]

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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

[b]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.[/b]

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?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

NP/ I agree that deaths are rare but as someone who works in an urgent care, bites from dogs are so common that in our folders of most commonly used forms in the office - along with Motrin/Tylenol dosing handouts, return to school or work notes, for example- is the county dog bite reporting forms. [/quote]

I live in MoCo. There are an estimated 1,082,273 people here. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/montgomerycountymaryland/PST045223

The bite incident forms pp refers to would be MoCo animal control, which says 800-900 bites/year (but doesn't provide a specific tally of reported bites) https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/animalservices/oas/bites.html And yes, that form should be handy in an urgent care so bites get properly reported and recorded and nobody has to wonder how to do either, sure.

Now do the math. That is a very small percentage of people getting bitten every year, don't you think? [/quote]

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