A small bonus is that there may be fewer muhamedans visiting the store. Many, per muhamed, don’t like dogs, especially big dogs. Now, if the dog were black, that would be the trifecta! muhamedans HATE big, black dogs, so there would be even less chance of terrorism because of the dog.
Years ago, my former wife was at the local library, looking at art books. She met a divorced, female muhamedan with a child in tow, also looking at art books. She invited this woman and her spawn to come over to the house and look at her paintings. When the muhamedan woman entered the house and saw our two big, black, dogs; she almost wet herself, running back to her car, dragging her spawn with her. Never heard from this woman again.
I never let on to my former wife, the joy I felt, that our two ‘babies’ so scared this woman. I still chuckle at this, though I guess that I shouldn’t.
It did occur to me that the dog’s presence might deter the more radical Moslem.