loose dog in small local Sainsbury

The shop was used to the dog coming in who was obviously well behaved (despite being a mongrel). I understand not wanting a store full of dogs but this was a small local store and the customer was a regular. When you see other customers in their pyjamas or nightdresses looking as if they have just rolled out of bed and possibly helping themselves to items in the bakery section or someone on roller skates then give me a well behaved dog any day.

owner pats dog and then heads to fruit and veg and picks apples to examine one at a time and that is how diseases fungi ringworm etc are spread

Dog owners can be so entitled

Calendar Girl:
"Not all of us on GN want to see dogs everywhere we go, particularly as we food shop."

Gransnet users are a self selecting demographic. Most of the general population like to see dogs all around .

I'm fond of dogs and enjoy meeting them on walks or in the street. However, I would be pretty horrified to meet one on or off the lead in a food shop.

Caleo

Calendar Girl:
"Not all of us on GN want to see dogs everywhere we go, particularly as we food shop."

Gransnet users are a self selecting demographic. Most of the general population like to see dogs all around .

I have a severe allergy to dogs.

Have been hospitalised on multiple occasions.

Before my diagnosis I had dogs, I am still a dog lover, but they are animals not fur babies to be dressed and dragged anywhere and everywhere.

But hey ho I suppose that’s my problem and not the entitled dog owners…

I love dogs and would choose them over people any day of the week, but I would never take my dog into a supermarket (or any shop, for that matter), and I genuinely did not think supermarkets allowed any dogs in, apart from actual service dogs. I class myself as a responsible dog owner and not in any way 'entitled'.
However, when it comes to hygiene in supermarkets, when you see what some humans do, I think there's more to worry about from that point of view.

karmalady

owner pats dog and then heads to fruit and veg and picks apples to examine one at a time and that is how diseases fungi ringworm etc are spread

Dog owners can be so entitled

Oh FGS!
1) why assume a dog owner has patted their dog on the head because it is in the shop ( more likely scenario is to pat it before tying it up outside or leaving it in the car!)
2) AN Other (man) does not wash hands after a loo visit ..then heads to fruit and veg etc
3) keen gardener or employee at nursery may not wash hands before going into shop then heads to fruit and veg etc
4) market trader takes cash from previous customer (goodness knows where those hands have been) , picks up your apples etc to bag them up …and so on
Not to mention dried mud on (especially it seems) organic produce?
I could go on but won’t.
In any case don’t all you pearl clutchers wash your fresh fruit and veg before eating ?

Well said ViceVersa
Contact the store manager OP and tell them what was said when you complained about the dog.What if we all decided to take dogs into the shops? It’s either a rule or it isn’t.

PS I would not dream of inflicting supermarket shopping on my dog but not for all the specious reasons offered.
She would hate it - busy, too many people and too many feet, scary trolleys,, noisy(to her) and frightening, but I might see no reason not to have her with me when shopping at the local outdoor farmers market.
Nor @ GG13 is she a “fur baby” to be dressed and dragged anywhere and everywhere to be dressed in clothes, don’t prejudge all dog owners.

My very calm and laidback black Lab wouldn't be at all fazed by those things, but I still wouldn't take him into a supermarket. Like your girl, RosieandherMaw though, he's not dressed up and paraded around like some kind of novelty or fashion accessory - he's a proper dog who's at his happiest swimming in the burn or getting mucky.

I have never understood why dogs are considered unhygeinic in shops.

Aveline

I'm fond of dogs and enjoy meeting them on walks or in the street. However, I would be pretty horrified to meet one on or off the lead in a food shop.

Happily I am less easily “horrified “
Cruelty, prejudice, injustice, ruminate behaviour even rudeness, yes, but I remain selective about what “horrifies” me.
And in all my 77 years I have yet to see a dog sitting on a chair at a table in a coffee shop, wine bar, pub or restaurant.

Clearly I lead a sheltered existence.

I don’t know where “ruminate behaviour” came from, don’t encounter many cows in shops either.
Rude behaviour though…..

Rosie There was a dog lying on the cushioned bench next to its owners having their meal in a country pub we visited this week.It was getting tidbits from their plates every so often.We were on the next table and I thought it unfair of them when people who get their table later on have to sit on the same cushion.The waiting staff saw, but said nothing.It does happen.
I really like dogs but their place is under the table.

I agree with you there, Oreo. I have a friend who has two Shihtzus and she takes them everywhere with her, including into cafes, restaurants etc, where they sit at the table and she feeds them from her plate. I would never dream of doing that. We only take our dog into bars or restaurants (after checking that they are dog friendly) if we are travelling in our motorhome, and we always sit outside if the weather permits. If we do go inside, our dog lies quietly under the table and bothers no-one. We've often had staff or other customers remark on how well behaved he is. We are responsible, considerate owners, and it does annoy me when people tar all dog owners with the same brush.

RosieandherMaw not all dog owners are entitled, unfortunately where I spent the last week there were plenty of them.

I cannot abide people dressing up dogs, but I know some breeds suffer from the cold and therefore wear coats in the winter.

As I posted up thread I have owned dogs, they were family pets well trained (doggy classes) well loved but not treated as humans.

I wish I wasn’t allergic as we would have a dog now 😿

RosieandherMaw

Aveline

I'm fond of dogs and enjoy meeting them on walks or in the street. However, I would be pretty horrified to meet one on or off the lead in a food shop.

Happily I am less easily “horrified “
Cruelty, prejudice, injustice, ruminate behaviour even rudeness, yes, but I remain selective about what “horrifies” me.
And in all my 77 years I have yet to see a dog sitting on a chair at a table in a coffee shop, wine bar, pub or restaurant.

Clearly I lead a sheltered existence.

Yes, I have RosieandherMaw
At the café in the local farm shop, a man had his medium sized dog on his knee, eating the leftovers from his plate. I must have looked slightly startled and he stared at me with a most venomous look (the owner, not the dog, which was a rather nice terrier, but knew no better).

I was not saying it doesn’t exist but I think it is rather less prevalent than one might think from the selective sample on GN.
I find it hard to credit that adult women who have seen life are so easily scandalised. There’s a lot worse out there you know.
Teacups and storms spring to mind.

Live and let live?

My take on this - if there are no rules then ‘come one come all’ might be the result ‘well he brings HIS dog in’! Dog Central before we know it.
😮

I'd much rather have a dog wondering about than some obnoxious screaming uncontrollable brats running around and knocking into people and plonking their sticky hands over everything while mummy and daddy do absolutely nothing but worship their mobiles!

Honestly, give me the doggy any time!

ViceVersa

I love dogs and would choose them over people any day of the week, but I would never take my dog into a supermarket (or any shop, for that matter), and I genuinely did not think supermarkets allowed any dogs in, apart from actual service dogs. I class myself as a responsible dog owner and not in any way 'entitled'.
However, when it comes to hygiene in supermarkets, when you see what some humans do, I think there's more to worry about from that point of view.

I'm with you on this ViceVersa.

Funnily enough, only a couple of days ago I was in my local supermarket and a couple were looking at the Veg' - putting it in bags etc, both seemingly full of cold, coughing and spluttering etc and after handling various items, they were just putting them back .

People are allowed to disagree with you Maw and to be horrified by animals in food shops.
Noisy children and inconsiderate shoppers are also reprehensible but this thread is about dogs.

Just as I am allowed my opinions.
But correct me, I thought this thread was about one dog, off the lead, possibly mongrel (the relevance?) and its owner whom OP could only see from the back (why?) and only later morphed into pearl -clutching condemnation of dog owners, (who the heck here talks of “fur babies” or dresses them up in clothes? ) and anti-dog rants about hygiene, fungi (sic) and ringworm .
Groansnet rules

My Romanian can eat off my fork but I have almost trained him to sit politely while he does so.

A plate well licked by a dog saves on the washing up liquid.

Humans'mouths have more germs than dogs' mouths.