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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama  Bottom line, businesses have the freedom to enforce a no dog policy ( with the exception of service dogs) if they so choose. Customers also have the freedom to choose whether or not to patronize the business.
You might be the world's best dog owner. Your dog is clean, healthy, well behaved. But chances are, the guy coming in behind you isn't as conscientious. Why force business owner to stand there and try to determine which type of owner you are? It's easier for them to make a blanket statement of "no dogs allowed." Just because it's not posted specifically doesn't mean it's ok to take them in. How hard is it to ask first? And if the answer is a "no", then why sweat it? We may love our dogs beyond reason, but everyone else doesn't have to.
BTW-every hospital I have ever worked at has had a "no pets" policy. Only a select handful of specially trained and (health)screened dogs and trainers were ever allowed in because there are immune compromised people there (heck, most ICU's don't even allow flowers or balloons any more because of the health risks!) The most well behaved pet can freak out at the sounds and smells of a hospital. |
I had a small mixed breed dog that was allowed to do pet therapy in the nursing home I worked at and he was featured on a Channel 8 (local channel) for his volunteer work. He also was a pet therapy dog at a Senior center for the frail elderly. I am sure this would not have been allowed in a hospital. It is amazing at the difference in some people when there are animals around them.It can make a world of difference.