re: When did it become acceptable to bring your pet to grocery stores and restaurants?

I'm in the:
Nice resturant bar no dogs.
Dive bar / bar and grill / outside bar and grill is fine.
Fast food resturants no pets.
Grocery store no pets.
Home depot I don't really care.

***Unless it's a Pit Bull or a-hole dog, then it's a hard no to all.

Everyone is so afraid of being sued that they let this horseshite happen

Trying to reason with a dog owner is a lot like trying to reason with a liberal, it just doesn't come naturally to them.

Last April we were visiting friends in Houston, they picked out a TexMex place for lunch, it had a patio and the weather was beautiful, so we sat outside. They had a couple of dogs there, didn't care, until the bigger dog decided the little dog was some sort of enchilada. Load growling, barking and snarling happens, and that's the owners At one-point, big dog was trotting around proudly with little dog in its mouth.

Of course, dog owners are screaming at each other, tables and chairs getting knocked over, in general, funny as hell mayhem. We didn't pay for a floor show, but it was a lot better than roaming mariachi bands. In the end, both owners and dogs are ejected (golf clap), and our margies are comped (big golf clap).

As someone wrote earlier, go to Paris, everyone has a dog with them and everyone smokes, didn't see any dogs smoking, yet.

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Dogs are better than people

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They lick their own assholes and then put their tongue on you.

I have better friends than that.

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If it’s a patio bar style deal where you’re outside and it’s generally accepted that a dog will be there, that’s one thing.

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Here's my 2¢... Everyone crying about pet dander and what not are perfectly ok eating outside on a patio where there are 100x the germs and airborne particles and whatnot floating over their food or beverages but the second a dog comes indoors they freek out. It's just silly and illogical. My opinion is that if a dog is well behaved I have no problem with people bringing it into a store or restaurant. Id rather be in a restaurant with a dozen well behaved dogs than one obnoxious human.

A lot of establishments are pushing back now. Publix around here started posting signs that only accredited service animals are allowed. Pretty sure it's illegal in most states for places like restaurants and grocery stores but nobody has been enforcing it.

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Dog owners think everyone loves dogs

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There’s never been a situation that a well behaved dog didn’t enhance

The first I saw this I was in Boulder in the late 1980’s. I thought what are these hippies trying to prove.

Much as I love my border collies I don’t think animals belong wherever food is present. And hot take, most of your so called “therapy dogs” are bogus bullshite. I literally don’t care where you bring your alpaca, monitor lizard, great horned owl, etc except where my food is.