How do you feel about strangers picking up your dog?

[Teegy]

Originally Posted by ColesMommy01

Totally agree if it's my pups which I consider my fur children I will go bats#!t if someone touches them without my permission. Dont you put your hands on my pups or my son without my permission or all 5 feet of me are going h.a.m on you.

Ahhh the might of us 5 footers. Agree

[olliedog]

i am so afraid some may steal my dog i dare not take him into the city and if i go in a shop for some thing i am scarred he will be gone. i am thinking of a lockable harness and such available?
PLEASE HELP

[FryFry]

Originally Posted by Faboosh

I let one "stranger" (a PetSmart employee) hold Billi & they dropped her. I was upset and won't let anyone hold her now. I have to know them and they have to be sitting down, no exceptions. I'm actually leery of letting too many people near her, period after a group of PetSmart employees were bending down petting her and the same chick said 4 different times how she could just steal her, put Billi in her pocket and walk away. I politely told her off, told her manager and don't let more than one person pet her at a time.

She's not even 3 pounds and very friendly. If someone wanted to steal her, they could. I'm like a watch dog when it comes to her, I have to be.

How old is Billi? Leo is 9 weeks and already weighs 3lbs

[Princes mom]

I do not allow strangers to pet Ian, nor pick him up, even though he is very friendly, and very socialized with people and small dogs. Just my preference.

[Faboosh]

Originally Posted by FryFry

How old is Billi? Leo is 9 weeks and already weighs 3lbs

She'll be 8 months on the 3rd and is currently 2.7 lbs. About a pound smaller than we expected, but she makes up for it in attitude!

[gracielove]

I have never taken Gracie to PetCo or PetSmart or any pet place other than her groomer and the vet. We go for walks around our home and in a public park and that is where we meet most people.

It seems to be the thing for people to take their pets to pet stores but it seems to me like a very bad idea. With so many people and pets there it appears to be a very good place to pick up an illness or even have a possible injury. I don't go to those places very often but the last 2 times I have been there in the past 4 years I saw people with very young puppies there! They are just inviting trouble. Why people feel they need to take their babies to such a place is beyond me. If someone's pup ever wiggled out of someone's hand in there it could be life threatening.

[Kaylee32]

Originally Posted by gracielove

I have never taken Gracie to PetCo or PetSmart or any pet place other than her groomer and the vet. We go for walks around our home and in a public park and that is where we meet most people.

It seems to be the thing for people to take their pets to pet stores but it seems to me like a very bad idea. With so many people and pets there it appears to be a very good place to pick up an illness or even have a possible injury. I don't go to those places very often but the last 2 times I have been there in the past 4 years I saw people with very young puppies there! They are just inviting trouble. Why people feel they need to take their babies to such a place is beyond me. If someone's pup ever wiggled out of someone's hand in there it could be life threatening.

I take my girls to pet stores and I have never had any trouble. Granted they are pretty much always in my arms when they are in there, but I do think I am asking for trouble. My girls love being out and going places. I think it is the owners that are irresponsible that give places like these a bad name.

[celstu1]

Most people don't just pick up my boys, some do though. I don't mind when they are leashed to me. If they are not, I just tell them not to pick them up because they are wiggly and hard to hold onto. Dexter is usually in my arms anyways and people don't just try to take him out of my arms. I might not like that at all!

[olliedog]

i am so afraid some may steal my dog i dare not take him into the city and if i go in a shop for some thing i am scarred he will be gone. i am thinking of a lockable harness and such available?
PLEASE HELP

[theporkieyorkie]

I take my boys to the pet stores with me...but they are both adult dogs who've been vaccinated. I've seen people bring young puppies in there(one girl had a 8 week old shiz tzu) and that, I would not do...nor would I take my adult dogs to the pet store if I had a puppy at home.


I do not let strangers pick up my dogs. If someone comes over, they can sit on the couch and let my boys come to them and sit on their lap...that way the boys are free to come and go. I'd be afraid that my boys would get scared and try to jump down and get away if someone picked them up.

When it comes to the boys, I'd prefer people to look if they want, but not touch. I am totally overly paranoid and overprotective with them and I don't feel at all bad for being that way!!

[Buster Brown]

Originally Posted by olliedog

i am so afraid some may steal my dog i dare not take him into the city and if i go in a shop for some thing i am scarred he will be gone. i am thinking of a lockable harness and such available?
PLEASE HELP

I never take Buster anywhere he is not allowed in with me. I would be too afraid to leave him because if someone is determined to take your dog lockable harness or not they will. If they can steal a bike with a heavy chain lock in seconds no harness will stop them. Better safe than sorry. For me I never understand why people tether their dog outside a coffee shop while they go in too risky for me.

[jeane]

I do not allow strangers to pick up morgan// they can pet him but that's it

[Malvi]

My Yorkie does not allow people to pick her up. Not that she is afraid or unsociable - she is just cautios and I like it:-)

Everything about Yorkies - Yorkshire Terriers Naturally

[olliedog]

My friend had her Yorkie taken, but it was returned for a ''reward'' I think it was a money making weeze - justa relife though

[Buster Brown]

Originally Posted by olliedog

My friend had her Yorkie taken, but it was returned for a ''reward'' I think it was a money making weeze - justa relife though

Glad your friend got their dog back.