[Cindy_17]

Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1

Dogs are allowed to walk around on the ground in those public places, dropping bugs and germs they have picked up from all over everyplace.....there is NOTHING that specifies the dogs have to be immunized, so you have dogs picked up off the streets, dropping fleas and ticks, parvo germs, and God only knows what else they have been exposed to and are contaminating stores that allow strange dogs to walk all over their stores, unchecked....you do not even have any guarantee that any of those dogs have been vaccinated. They do not PRINT enough money that would entice me to allow my babies to be exposed to God only knows what, dropping all over the floors! Yes, that is right....I am a germ phobic nut, when it comes to my dogs....in my mind, allowing your dogs feet to touch the ground in one of those stores, is tantamount to allowing your human child to run his tongue all over the handle on the grocery cart, as he sits in the basket.....then you bring any and all diseases that dog has walked through and left on the floor in the store, to your home, your yard, and your home. I am not a clean freak, but I am only too aware of how diseases are spread between animals, and I do not want those diseases to contaminate my home, my yard, or my dogs.

I agree totally, I am germ-a-phobic too, both of mine are barely over 5lbs each and I simply do not want to take any chances, just my personal choice. Remember when the flu in dogs was going around last winter/spring? You just never know what they are encountering. But I don't do dog parks and the like either for reasons of fear of germs and attacks- again personal choice.