Bailey, my Havanese is a hearing service dog and I will begin training with Dayzee to do so as well. Bailey is also in training to be a therapy as will Dayzee when she is older.
Where are you in S. Calif Kim? I am out here in Redlands

Hmmm---where have I taken Edie. Edie has gone many places where she is not supposed to go, but I take her in her bag and no one notices. We call it going INDOGNITO.... :rolleyes:

Edie has been in: restaurants, casinos, a hospital, the mall, Home Depot, the HOOVER DAM (I have a pic of her next to the 'no pets' sign), on a tour bus (no pets allowed), on a train (no pets allowed), and there's more. I think the only place I have NOT taken her is a grocery store.

casino?! have you tried to take your babies to Las Vegas....?
just curious...

I am in San Diego. Did you train your service dog yourself or did you use a trainer?

NYC, while dog-friendlly is very cautious these days. Especially in highly populated places. If you take public transportation, you are open to have your bags searched or be refused...

Europe is more friendly regarding the dogs. You can take your dog even to shows, restaurants, etc. ;) Even without a dog carrier :cool:

I take Gus everywhere with me. We have never been asked to leave anywhere but told to not bring him next time. I stay away those places. All the stores I go to like the market, Welmart, Target, the mall,,,, they all know Gus. I have even taken him to church. He even gets blessed.

Now the for the bad part of taking him everywhere is when I do have to leave him, he gets so depressed. To the point where he gets sick. I had emergancy surgery last month and was in the hospital for 3 days. And a few weeks later just after getting over the shock from me leaving him the first time I had to leave him again when I took my niece to go see her mother. Even though there was someone here he still got depressed. I am trying to leave him behind little by little. If I know I am just going to be an hour or so I will leave him. But it's so hard. He hears the key and runs to go get in his bag. He makes me feel so guilty! Yesterday we went out to eat and the look on his face just about made me cry.

Tucker can go anywhere because he is legally a service dog. :)

I was concerned about this too, I knew that I couldn't be with them ALL the time. Like doctor visits and grocery shopping, or even at night. (she's not sleeping with me until she's potty trained, she's peed in my bed twice.) Maybe you should get a friend for Gus to keep him company? Brandy WILL NOT stay in her xpen unless Bailey is there, she also cries without him. It's just a suggestion that might help poor Gus. I think him getting into the bag would be so cute.

Yes we are working on it. I want my female red yorkie so badly and havent had any luck finding her. But my husbands cousins chi is pregnant and due any day now. We have dipps on a female. We are keeping our fingers crossed. I hope it will help Gus with is seperation issues.

what is tucker trained in? i wish my labs were service dogs, they love having something to do

Yes, Sherry-Lynn is right...NYC is doing lots of searches on the subways right now. My friend's husband was searched recently. I had been "sneaking" Chewy on the bus and subway for months and only found out recently that all that time I was legally allowed to have him there with me. As long as they are enclosed you can bring 'em on!

LOL thats too cute ...taking him to church and getting blessed even!

i wish i could take Crunchy to more places, when i first got him and he was much smaller he accompanied us to Wal-mart, IKEA, i think even a Dairy Queen once ...but now he's just getting too big, i did however have to squeeze him into his carrier for a quick trip to Target recently. i felt bad because he barely fit :o
i really do have to get a bigger bag ....hmm *adds to Christmas list* ;)

I want Rusty to be a service dog, he's already trained. :rolleyes:

Tucker is a "service dog in training" but baisically he picks things up for my mom (she has some kind of nerve problem and can't bend down a lot and all that stuff.)

awesome, did you train them? Does Rusty do the same kind of thing?

I'm training Tucker, Rusty pretty much does that too. He is a bit better at it than Tucker, but my mom can't use him because he pulls on the leash.

We were not in Las Vegas. We went to a casino in Tucson during a visit there. Edie was a little lady in her carrier. Never made a peep.

I take mine pretty much everywhere. And most of the time I either have 2 or 3 with me. I use my stroller and when I think I might be pushing the line, I put a big baby blanket on top and everyone thinks I have kids sleeping. I know that CA law says that animals cannot be within 20 ft. of areas where food is stored or served. So grocery stores and stores like Target & Walmart that also serve/sell food I don't even bother. I have been to many other stores though.. It's basically a call on the stores part not the law. And though I haven't had to use the arguement, I am ready to say that I have dog hair on my clothes, what's the difference?
I also like to keep up with dog friendly places and often look up areas I am visiting on www.dogfriendly.com.

My motto is "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission". But most of the time eveyone thinks the dogs are so cute, they just don't care about rules.

Here is a pic of my stroller for 3 dogs: http://www.petgearinc.com/AT3.htm
and my other for 2 dogs: http://www.petgearinc.com/Happy%20Trails.htm

HIGHLY recommend!!!

My sister took her pup, in her bag, with us shopping at Michael's. Everything went okay until we were in the check out line and all of a sudden Maggie let out a bark and the cashier yelled out...."What the hell???" It was so funny, ...but I didn't try to look like I was with my sister!

I never really tried to take Lacey anywhere that I knew would not allow her. Only Petsmart and Petco. When Hurricane Andrew hit, they made an exception at Sears. We were without power for over a week and did not want to let Lacey suffer in a hot house. We went to Sears waiting for generator and since the truck got lost from Houston, we spent the night in the store. All the clerks were really nice to Lacey and thought she was adorable. She was only 7 months old. She was housebroken already, so we did not have to worry about her having an accident.

The one time I tried to bring her somewhere I was told no. Lacey had kidney failure and I had to bring her to the vet 3 times a week for her IV fluids. I had to get gas first and did want to make two trips. It was very hot that day and I did not want to make Lacey wait in the car in her condition. And the lady told me rudely no pets. Even though I was holding her in my arms and there was not any customers in the store at the time. I did not think it was that big of a deal because it was only going to take 5 seconds to pay for my gas. So, I had to bring her home and go back and pick her back up for the vets. Luckily, the gas station is right up the highway from my house.

I don't take Trixie everywhere with me mainly because she doesn't really seem to like riding in cars all that much. Actually, she pukes if it's for more than 15 minutes or so. She is OK if she is in my lap, but IMO, it is dangerous to drive with a wiggly doggy in your lap. At least for me, not speaking for everyone I guess. Secondly, when I leave my house, I try to get everything done in one trip...most of the time, there is at least one place (Wal-Mart usually) that has a 'no pets' policy. I have no desire to try to sneak her in, rules are rules, even if I don't agree with them. There are alot of people that are deathly afraid of dogs (I can't imagine why, but my grandmother is afraid of cats, so...) I can't imagine what it would be like to not be able to go to Wal-Mart becuase there were people in there with dogs...if I was afraid of them, that is.