Posted on 02/28/2019 8:42:30 PM PST by OddLane
A few years ago at Publix some guy was parading his pit bull with its service dog vest through the store. Saw him encourage shoppers and employees to pet it. I complained to the manager. He agreed it was not a service animal.
I told him I was very upset employees were petting this dog then touching food items I might purchase. Plus, that’s not appropriate behavior around a true service animal.
Never saw it there again. I made it clear if that dog hurt me I would sue and testify on behalf of any other customer injured by that dog.
Say'n it don't make it so.
DOG OF PEACE
Airport tries to show its tolerance. Tolerance costs it lots of money. Lesson learned.
The airports should invest in pet hotels.
My take is “Never trust any dog around children”
I hate to say this as someone with libertarian leanings, but these types of events are going to lead to licensing laws for service animals. Of course, that will only increase the inconvenience and cost for those who truly need service animals.
An emotional support firearm would be a better choice. Makes much more sense than a pit bull in any airport.
I think about this subject a lot, ever since the woman across the street, and the people next door got one of these beasts. Yesterday, I tried to go out of my back door into my backyard and the PB next door came running toward the fence and began barking fiercely. I wasn't sure my fence would hold him back, so I immediately took my dog back inside. My dog is a toy poodle, just over a year old, and he does not understand how small he is -- he was barking back.
Anyway, about it not being the breed; I have often thought that people would be better served when choosing a dog if they knew what traits were bred into the dog, what was the dog bred to do.
As an example: The first sheltie I had ever owned was a wonderful dog, I was about 16 when I bought her. One day my mother had some friends over and they were in the basement. When the group was getting ready to leave, they were milling around talking to each other. Well, that little sheltie started herding them into small groups. It was rather funny to see her weaving in and out and keeping the groups together.
This dog had never seen a sheep in her life, nor had she been trained to herd. But, Shetland Sheepdogs are a herding dog and the instinct to herd had been bred into her, she herded people, my mom's friends, my nieces and nephews.
Pit Bulls were bred to kill things. They were used to keep tresspassers off the "lairds" land, they were used to fight bulls with people betting who would win. That aggressive nature is built into that dog, they were BRED to be this way. They are large, powerful dogs who were never meant to be house pets, and certainly not be around young children.
I am so tired of reading these articles about these dogs. Nothing is ever done. A simple solution might be to require that these dogs be muzzled whenever they are out of doors. I'm not holding my breath.
There is a hugely disproportionate number of really bad people that are attracted to pit bulls.
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