[Daffynition]

At the gas station-convenience store at the intersection of Nursery Road and U.S. 19 in Clearwater, clerk Cody, the chocolate Lab wearing a shirt with a BP tag, greets customers.

[Maurice Tift]

The Doritos will kill you long before a dog hair does anything to you.

[lula]

Pretty sad, I would bet there are worse things (health-wise) in the store than the dog. Someone’s on a power trip.

[CGASMIA68]

i would chalange the crap out of this one and f with the town to the max.....if he has no food prep licence than i see no foul.......in the mean time a nice dog mat at the front door would do fine.....

[Fresh Wind]

From the FDA’s Food Defect Action Level list-allowable levels of product contamination. No mention of dog hairs, though.

CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE LIQUOR

Insect filth: Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments

Rodent filth: Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined OR any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs

CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED

Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

RED FISH AND OCEAN PERCH

Parasites: 3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more parasites accompanied by pus pockets

MACARONI AND NOODLE PRODUCTS

Insect filth: Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

Rodent filth: Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

PEANUT BUTTER

Insect filth: Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams

POPCORN

Rodent filth: 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples OR 2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples OR 20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples

WHEAT FLOUR

Insect filth: Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams

[Doogle]

if anyone backing this ban would consider who wrapped those prepackaged buttered rolls you got with your coffee this morning....having a dog greet you at a window would seem sterile.

[nathanbedford]

As someone who lives most of the year in Germany one expects to encounter dogs in restaurants. It is simply part of the culture here. The dogs are invariably well-behaved and stay quietly under the table.

In rural Bavaria where I live is not uncommon to sit on the terrace or in a beer garden of a restaurant in pleasant weather to eat. It is equally common to see a barn with milk cows calmly chewing a cud.

I would stack up the hygiene in restaurants in Germany against that available in America and make bets on the winner. But it only make a quick comparison of the cleanliness of the toilets in Germany and America to understand the commitment to cleanliness in Germany.

The Germans have dogs in their restaurants and cows a few feet away from folks eating outdoors. The Germans have a cleaner environment. The Americans choose not to consider the cleanliness of the convenience store where this dog is greeting customers, instead the bureaucrats simply pass an edict: no dogs allowed. It seems there is a larger lesson here. Once regulators can identify a potential source of harm they simply pass a regulation to solve a real or imagined threat. Where there is no regulation, the tort lawyers fill in the gaps.

Every regulation chips away at our liberty. Sometimes I wonder whether the Europeans are really shutting down personal liberty as much as we conservatives in America contend. Maybe there is a better way?

[RegulatorCountry]

Labs are such sweeties, and good sports, too. Up for almost anything, so long as they can be with their people.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Typical govt stupidity and ridgidity. We are around dog hair all day long, because as sure as shooting, if you don’t own a dog your fellow employees do and they have dog hair on their clothes.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Tell me again why we need government.

[silverleaf]

He looks like a “service dog” to me!
Full service!

[1010RD]

What would happen if no health department existed?

[Vigilantcitizen]

Freakin self important twits.

[6SJ7]

"Twenty bucks on pump #2 and a pack of Marlboros? You got it!"

[spectre]

When birds are flying around in Grocery Stores, they poop all over the produce. I don't see anyone closing them down.

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[papasmurf]

I can't do what?

[a fool in paradise]

"THAT'S SPECIEST!!!"

[a fool in paradise]

[tanknetter]

Solution: go to a shrink and tell him you’ve got separation anxiety issues, on your end, with the dog. Have the shrink write up a letter stating such. Dog immediately becomes a “service animal” and is allowed to stay in the store under the terms of the ADA.

THEN ... file a civil rights/discrimination complaint against the bureaucrats who tried to kick the dog out.

[bamahead]

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[N. Theknow]

If the health inspector is so worried about hair getting into food products, why isn’t the store owner wearing a hairnet?