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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

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.[/quote]
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.[/quote]

also, real service dogs, because of their training, are well behaved in public. [/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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 [/quote]

Nah you are the moron. Many kids are fearful.
-DP
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And a parent should not encourage this [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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?[/quote]

My kid's natural and originally mild trepidation around dogs has gotten more severe because there are so many off leash and untrained dogs in our neighborhood. The dogs bound right up, either on no leash or on a very long lead, and their owners make no effort to exercise control over them. It freaks her out and has made her really wary of all dogs because she doesn't know what to expect from them.

One thing I get so tired of hearing from dog owners when they see her fear is "it's okay, my dogs friendly" while doing nothing to get their dog to heel. But if your dog is trained and you encounter a kid who is afraid of them, you could do a lot to help ease those fears by *demonstrating* the dog isn't a threat. I always tell my kid to pay attention to how trained dogs stay close to their owners, and respond to calls to stop, heel, or sit. My kid knows to look for those signs to help her know a dog is "safe." The idiots who are letting their dogs run up to kids they don't even know on the street or at the park and then saying "she's friendly!" and getting mad at a child for having fear are making the situation worse.[/quote]worse yet, they allow their dogs to bound up to DC who is very allergic to them!  They say the same thing, ‘he’s frienfly!’[/quote]

It’s your job to keep your child away.[/quote]

How do I keep my child away from an unleashed dog on a playground? How do I keep my child away from dogs in restaurants and grocery stores?

Really, I'm asking. I would like to do this but the dogs are everywhere, their owners don't control them. Please explain how I keep my child away from these dogs.[/quote]

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