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  • Customers, readers defend Cody the store dog

    12/05/2009 10:07:38 AM PST · by Daffynition · 34 replies · 880+ views
    St Petersburg Times ^ | December 5, 2009 | Dominick Tao
    CLEARWATER — If a dog were to accompany a restaurant chef to work, most people would have no problem with a state inspector kicking the dog to the curb. But when the food vendor happens to be a gas station, and its offerings stop at cans of Coke and bags of Doritos, and the dog is a charismatic chocolate Labrador named Cody, the response evolves into a public outcry — against the state. "Thumbs down on the Department of Agriculture. Tackle some real problems. Human customers bring more contamination — not to mention danger — than a well-cared-for pooch," said...
  • Dog banned from Gulf coast store

    12/04/2009 4:02:53 PM PST · by JoeProBono · 18 replies · 851+ views
    miamiherald ^ | 12.04.09
    CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A state health inspector says a dog familiar to many regular customers at a Gulf coast gas station will no longer be able to join his owner at work. The Clearwater BP station's owner, Karim Mansour, received a warning from the Florida Department of Health on Thursday, informing him that Cody would have to go or all of the store's food - mostly bottled soda, candy and other snacks - would be declared unfit for consumption.