[yorkietalkjilly]

Stores don't want to deal with the inevitable liability issues if you put your carrier in a basket and turned away, the dog was stolen. Or someone or a child who is phobic of dogs panics and hurts themselves running from a barking dog in a carrier. Or your dog is hurt in the carrier by falling merchandise, etc. And that's not to mention the nuts who would no doubt take flea-covered dogs in and shop forever, allowing the little critters to exit the carrier and craw all about in the store. Then, no doubt one or two would take them from the carrier inevitably and who knows what a dog will do if someone reaches over and tries to pet it or what happens should it jump from the cart into the floor and get hurt. Also, you know some people will bring in biting dogs and little children or anybody is not safe around those type dogs. Just some of the things that will always keep businesses from freely allowing dogs on their premises because all these incidents or others like them could generate lawsuits, aside from the health department concerns. Then think of those that will bring in the dog that just stinks to high heaven feces hanging from its coat and drives a lot of customers out. A lot of people don't have our same values and the misery and yuck factor not to mention danger bringing wholesale dogs into a place of business is just not practical with some of the customers they would have. And they don't dare try to limit it to sizes as that would raise all kinds of issues with somebody carrying in a 30 lb. dog and saying "but he's tiny!" or claiming they are discriminating against their dog and on and on. And then the personnel could be distracted from working petting dogs so I don't see businessmen and women ever allowing it.