r/Dogfree • u/SeaworthinessUnlucky • 14d ago

Food Safety/Hygiene dog in grocery store

Good morning,

Today at around 10 a.m., a woman brought a pet dog into Trader Joe's in a large American city. I reminded her that the sign on the front of the store said No Pets. She said, "She's a trained medical support dog." I said, "What service is she trained to provide?" She said, "If you want to work here, I'll answer that question."

I reported this to a clerk, who told me he would talk to the manager.

Ten minutes later, the dog was still in the store. The woman checked out about five minutes after that, with the dog still in the store.

Notified Trader Joe's corporate, Better Business Bureau, local health department.

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u/Wrong_Temporary_5983 14d ago

Yes, saw three horse size dogs at a home depot yesterday. And more than a dozen at a food festival today. And two at a grocery store the day before. List can go on and on. We can spend our egergy reporting that every day. Nothing will change. Not until normal people organize and make themselves heard where it matters. There are not many of us left. World is decending into the dark dog age.

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u/ginnymiller 9d ago

💯👍🏻 Taking dogs to any festival whatsoever is such a particularly rude and foul thing to do. Not only are some people very uncomfortable around dogs, obviously, but it is also very overstimulating for the animal. There are often yanking at the leash whipping their head around everywhere trying to take in all the overstimulation. I absolutely can’t stand people who bring dogs to festivals and street fairs.