I’ve yet to find a purse pet which actually performs a bonafide service. I’ve met quite a few pits who have been trained to perform a variety of needed services.
My wife has a retired tea-cup poodle, purse dog. Because she could, she used to take it to her office where it politely stayed under the desk most of the time. Since she worked with university students the bestie was a good way to get them to relax a bit as most had no pets growing up in cramped HK apartments. “Baby” is now 12-years-old and it would be evil to take her on a plane as she is pretty fragile. We don’t take her anywhere much anymore and she is happy to lounge on the sofa.
Pit bulls are great affectionate animals. Train them to be killers and black labs will do that too.
Knew a woman with a purse pet. Poor little thing never got any exercise. It was all a farce. She didn’t have any papers for it but no one had the nerve to tell her to keep it out of their shops.
Mine loved retrieving ducks.