People can be quite presumptious sometimes, just yesterday I had some business to talk with the lady who owns the bird feed store. She had a customer who literally just bent down, and said "how would you like to be picked up?" and scooped Chip off the floor. I was a bit mortified at first, and watched her like a hawk, she put him down gently and an associate of the store gave him some treats. When I'm out in public kids and people are usually pretty good about asking to pet him, that incident was the first "picking up". Mind you Chip is 15lbs so its not as tempting to pick him up as the little ones.
I really can't believe that woman at the beach would expect you to hand over your dog to show someone, if she wanted her to see your dog she should of came over. It's just like saying can I borrow your car to show my friend, and handing over the keys. |