What's the rationale behind bringing your dog into stores?

LimestoneKid wrote: 1. Dogs need exercise.

2. There are freakin' idiots who will steal your dog if you leave it tied up outside a store.

Heck I'm even going to go out drinkin' with my dogs later this afternoon.

Well, walk your dog outside THEN bring it home so no freakin idiots will steal it and I don't have to step on it while shopping.

Comparing kids with dogs is a ridiculous argument. A dog can be left at home alone, and a young child cannot.

I passed 8 piles of dogshit this morning in the course of a 3 block walk and then saw someone allowing there dog to pee on the entrance of a nearby store. This is an event i notice several times a week , including having wash down our store door on occasion ... and theres nothing more enjoyable then looking up and seeing a hunched dog with the runs aimed at your store door .... :?

they should be allowed in stores precisely why ??

while i may find the average young child far more annoying then the average dog, your dog is not a human being. it will never learn much more then sit stay eat shit woof play sleep.

the child will grow to an adult,
and eventually bitch about something on this website.

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: If I choose to bring my dog into an establishment that allows dogs inside, you who don't like it, will have to deal with it.

non food yep youre right. its the stores choice.
shoulda left it there though (imho)

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: And don't think for an instant I haven't witnessed GROWN ASS MEN pissing all over the sidewalks and streets. My dog does his business at the curb, on the street. I pick up after him, too. You can all line up to apologize and thank me later.

congrats on being more responsible then an ill homeless drunk. 8)

truly, i didnt mean to hit your shoe.

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote:
Same goes for your kids. I love dodging them while trying to walk through a restuarant or store. And please, try to refrain from running over my feet with your huge strollers or better yet, stop ramming me from behind with them. Happy New Year!

Also, nothing like getting a fragrant whiff of shit in a restaurant as your little bundle of joy grinds it into his D&G Juniors.

Garfunky wrote: ... and theres nothing more enjoyable then looking up and seeing a hunched dog with the runs aimed at your store door .... :?

Is that your store?? Sorry!

Mamacita wrote: I do not have syph!! I have the avian bird flu! Don't make me get BigGuy to give you crabs!

um, hi. hello? wha?

and, on topic, we saw a woman with her large dog last year when we were rescuing BG's car from the tow pound. inside the office, on the line with her, wearing a toggle coat. it was wrong.

he did? do i want to know this?

Oscar would like to know if any of your bitches would be interested in joining him for a bowl of Slobber Ale.

I'm not a kid person but there are some that I do like and enjoy being around. However, I'll take a dog over a random stranger's kid any day. I have zero maternal instinct, babies do absolutely nothing for me. It might have something to do with my distaste for the human species as a whole. Individual people can be wonderful but all in all we pretty much suck. Dogs, on the other hand, are quite awesome in so many ways.

danielle123 wrote: Damn, A.B. is quite worked up but, unfortunately, her arguments are not logical.

Who's arguing? Besides you?

I find it quite funny that I'm the only one being "attacked" here and I've already stated that I don't compare my dog to kids.

My opinion (and it's only my OPINION) is that most of you with children cannot raise them properly. You bring them to bars (there were a gaggle of them in the bar I was in on Saturday) and let them run willy nilly all over subways, buses, airplanes and expect strangers to think they're cute. I've had kids crawl in my lap while I'm reading the paper on the subway and instead of the parent being apologetic and/or getting their kids away from me, they laugh and say "ooohhh, she likes you!" I doubt I'd get the same reaction if my 70 lbs. dog did that to a stranger. But then, I don't bring my dog on the subway, nor do I allow him off his leash in public. When little Jimmy has discipline problems at school, you blame his over worked, under paid teacher for your short comings as a parent. Or better yet, shove pills down your kid's throat to make him act "normal." As a dog owner, I'm expected to train my dog so he behaves in public. There's no magical meds I can give him that will turn him into Lassie.

Now I've already been called lots of names here (lacks credibility, pathetic and undersexed [which was removed by a mod]) because of the reading comprehension of most on this board. I'm not a kids person. I don't begrudge those of you who nor your right to bring kids into bars - which I believe they don't belong in. Why do your panties twist so hard when you see a dog in a place he's ALLOWED to be?

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: When little Jimmy has discipline problems at school, you blame his over worked, under paid teacher for your short comings as a parent. Or better yet, shove pills down your kid's throat to make him act "normal."

This is a very ignorant statement.

Well my dogs and I did some good drinkin' yesterday.

They got some great exercise on the walk to the bar and I got to drink some nice beer when we finally got there.

As far as I could tell it was a win-win situation while we at the bar too as numerous people game by to get their doggy fix and my pups were able to receive some extra belly rubs as a result. :thumright:

eggcream wrote: No matter how many ways you spin it you're still comparing dogs to kids which is past bordering on the absurd. You complain about kids ad nauseam then in your next breath you state the behavior of your dog. We get it, you don't like kids but kids take precedence over dogs.

No, actually I don't like your kids. Thats why I don't presume to bring my kids into a restuarant where adults are trying to have an adult experience.
My kids, I don't have a choice. Dogs, a different story, anybody who doesn't like dogs is suspect in my book.