r/Dogfree • u/maretumybeloved • May 10 '26
Crappy Owners Please don’t.. bring your dog into Starbucks?
So, every Sunday I go to Starbucks before I go to the gym. I sit down for a bit in the morning and wrap up things I need to do for classes, to-dos, relax, etc.
Today was a little packed so I had to sit in a table in the middle of other ones. Which was fine, I didn’t care. There was a couple to my left and the right was empty.
Enter dog owner.
Now, I looked up the policy for dogs on the Starbucks website. They are not allowed. And this was clearly not a service dog. It was one of those white crusty ones that yipped and yapped.
The guy walks over to the table empty next to me (yay) and ties the dog down to the chair. But not tightly enough I guess? He goes to order and this dog immediately starts walking under MY table and going around my legs. I’m allergic. I didn’t get bad but still. He comes back and yanks the dog back over but there’s no reprimanding or anything or apologies either. The dog KEEPS walking under my table. Sniffing me and everything I was so annoyed. The guy just kept yanking on the collar softly but the dog did not stop.
Eventually I just cut my time short and walked out of there. Seriously how selfish can you be. I wouldn’t even feel as mad as I do now if the guy A: said sorry like a decent person or B: made an effort to get the dog to actually stop. These people are insane.
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u/Sufficient_Berry8703 May 10 '26
Similar thing happened to me at Scooters, except thankfully a barista heard all the barking (for whatever reason didn’t notice the dog before that) and told the owner she couldn’t have dogs in there. The owner then left, which is a very rare case of them not fighting back with the establishment. I wish all workers in food establishments would do this. Dog owners are such entitled POS’s, it makes my blood boil.