Posted on 12/01/2019 8:16:14 PM PST by Vendome
When did it become acceptable for everyone to bring their Stew Pet dogs to the mall?
I just wanted some vegetables and chicken for dinner so I stopped at our mega mall here in San Jose and grabbed my chow at Sarko.
Yum
So, I am sitting there taking my first sip of my Diet Coke and I start to hear the whining of a little dog.
Concerned, I look around and don't see it.
Then this lady walks past me and she has two dinky dogs on a leash. I probably know the breed but, whatever.
The dinky dork dogs start whining and it occurs to me, as some dog from across the food court joined in, that someone is going to hurt if this Stew pet woman doesn't reign in her animals, making the leash a little shorter.
Several people got caught up in the leashes, as there were unaware the dinky dork stewpets had wondered 10 feet away.
Some one could have tripped and got injured and the animals themselves could have been injured as well.
So, I try to ignore this ignoramus of a woman, who must feel she is entitled to force her emptiness on the rest of us through the use of the animals.
Well, not to be out done, a few moments later I feel something hitting my calf and I quickly reach down to swat it away and found another Stew Pet Dinky Dork Dog who just had to get under my legs and the table.
I start to look around for the owner. He came by 30 seconds later and simply apologized an laughingly took the dog to some other place, so it could bother another innocent person.
Nope, a few minutes later I felt something nudging my calf again.
Looking down I again saw that little brat of a Dinky Dork Dog and again his Stew Pet owner gathered him up and apologized.
I almost verbally laid into to him but, wasn't in the mood.
Back to my meal, oh no wait.
Just a few minutes later I hear a rather large bark, seemingly from a full size dog.
I look in the direction of the bark and yep, it was a German Shepard, who was not on leash and began wondering through the crowd of people nearby.
I saw two women nearly trip avoiding this stewpet dog and they were very startled.
That dog was collected by its stewpet owner who apologized.
But, just so everyone could have a good time the 1st idiot stewpet dorky dinky dog owner thought it would a great idea if his non-sentient canine met a much larger non-sentient canine
I dunno maybe he thought they were family and wanted to reunite them.
The lil bass tards laid into each other in some sort of verbal spat I guess.
I don't speak so, I am only going by the growling and fierceness of the barking they were really not happy seeing each other and did not wish to be acquainted.
Anyway, I don't care if you bring your dog to a mall. Actually, that is a lie. I do care but, I will tolerate your lil beastard if he is well behaved, socialized and on a short leash.
rant off/
I have no problem with bona fide SERVICE dogs. But “companion” dogs, “comfort animals”, and “support” dogs do NOT belong in restaurants or food stores. Nor any other retail stores except pet stores.
A woman I know, takes her little foo-foo everywhere she goes, claiming everywhere, that it’s her support dog. When I asked her if she really had a certificate to prove it, she said, “Yes, I do. I got it from a lady in California. She makes driver’s licenses, too.” (True story. She’s not too bright).
I LOVE dogs. Scammers -— not so much.
In California? You probably go to prison for 5 years for that. Maybe ten.
“My Dog Is Friendly” !?!?
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Yup,
Heard That.
Well done.
It’s a business...run the way its owners want it to be run.
If you don’t like it, don’t patronize it.
How is this different than a Christian bakery?
Luv dogs. All sizes but, that was ridiculous...
I can’t stand all of the free food samples at Costco with people licking their fingers, handling the carts, touching the product on the shelves, etc.
Now I have one MORE thing to think about. (Along with some kid leaking out of their diaper, etc.)
Seriously - I don’t think I’m going to ever use that little tray near the handle again to hold stuff. Although I probably should have figured that out before. It’s not a storage tray - it’s a public chair!
Businesses have been complaining for some time about the availability of those dog vests indicating they are support dogs; too readily available to anyone.
This is the inevitable result of people treating dogs as the children they won’t produce - seriously. A whole cottage industry has sprung up catering to them.
The liability insurance for businesses allowing pets must be unreal - so I suspect many business owners simply don’t tell their insurance companies (just as Uber/Lyft drivers conceal their use of non-commercial vehicles from their auto insurance providers).
I see more and more white women pushing small dogs around in baby strollers; absolutely bizarre. In my town we’ve finally built a “bark park” for these people to bring their faux children - it is about a mile north of where the trafficked immigrants’ children fill a soccer field each day.
We are enabling/ignoring our own extinction.
:-)
Dogs sometimes get a myelopathy and back legs get weak. Dogs can’t walk. So that may be why you see them on carts or wheelchairs.
Have you read PD James Children of Men?
prescient
My ex takes his dog everywhere. He is now an anxious man and his dog is his “blankie.” He even had his dog at his daughters’ weddings.
He wont travel anywhere his do is not permitted. No state parks, only certain federal parks. He bought a camper so he and his dog can travel together, sort of a me and you and my dog named boo, except there is only him.
To compound this, his consecutive dogs have been older dogs who have terrible manners, are unpleasant, attackers or biters. Dogs that in another better time would have been put down.
He doesn’t make them that much better, they are unpleasant to be around.
and I like dogs.
I assumed it was the other way around - the muscles were atrophying because they weren’t exercised regularly.
These weren’t “carts” or “wheelchairs”; they were baby strollers.
If you have a pug I’m familiar with the issues they face.
6 more months and I will be free of the heavy shackles of bondage here behind the Pink Curtain of Gulag California. 6 more months and I am moving to America, leaving Communist occupied Kalifornia. 6 more months ! Can’t wait. I am counting the days.
Malls? What are Mall? Can you buy them at Amazon?
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