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Last week I was walking down the street with my kids, and some loose dog comes running at my youngest. I'm holding both kids' hands, so I kicked at the dog to keep it away without actually hitting the dog.

All of a sudden, its absentee owner comes out of the woodwork to threaten "if you kick my dog I'll kick you!" I just hung on to my kids and kept on walking. I would rather get kicked than let his dog do whatever it was going to do to my kid. I'm not going to stop and get in a fight with this idiot, but it was simply astounding that he expected random people on the street to care more about his dog than he does.

It is not limited to California, I assure you.

If you think that bad dog owner entitlement is an exclusively Californian issue then I regret to inform you that I have terrible news about the rest of the country.

I love dogs. I love looking at them. I love playing with them. Dogs are the best.

But don't fucking bring your dog...

People are scared of dogs. People are allergic to dogs.

I know you love your dog, I probably love your dog too but I don't think I should bring my dog anywhere indoors and/or crowded and neither should you.

Obviously!!!! If your dog is a service dog, I am not talking about you and your dog. You just make me sad because I can't play with your dog :( even tho they are such a good boy/girl...

I worked a retail gig in the Bay Area. I was the only one who tried to enforce the no-dog policy. That was 20 years ago. I wouldn't bother now.

Op, did your leg get humped by a dog in a store?

This is so stupid. Grow up.

If you don't want your leg humped, then stop dressing so provocatively.

Animals don't belong in places that sell food. Animals don't belong in office supply stores. Animals don't belong in post offices. Animals don't belong in any business other than a vet's office or pet supply store that specifically allows them.

If you can't train your animal to be home alone long enough for you to run some errands, then you shouldn't own a pet.

I'm not a dog person, even the one dog I did have in my household is a shiba inu, which is way more cat-like than anything. I don't have a problem with dogs in stores as long as they're well behaved...

BUT

Don't take your dog to a venue or bar with loud live music. Just because you're comfortable with loud music doesn't mean your dog is. I imagine it's pretty hard on their much more sensitive hearing and our vet confirmed this to me.

Thats my 2¢

This is an all states thing not just CA. Your dog does not belong at the grocery store

I genuinely adore dogs and love seeing them anywhere I am! But places that sell and prepare food should be off-limits (except for service animals, of course. Their accessibility outweighs these concerns). Some people have super sensitive allergies, just pet dander/hairs floating through the air can be irritating or worse. Some people have a crippling fear of dogs, maybe for a reason? Pets may be fine 99% of the time around family/friends, but they're still animals. Unlike service animals, they haven't been tested or screened for emergency situations or stress-tested. They can and do snap, and there's no way to know if it will happen. When it does, it's lose/lose/lose: pain & suffering, lawsuits, and almost certainly a loving pet being euthanized.

Tbh I love it when customers bring their dogs to my work (as long as the dog is friendly).

Give some something cute to look at and pet during an otherwise bland day

Should come to Texas where they'll bring in dogs to the grocery store and they act like it's everyone's fault but their own when someone gets upset at dogshit in the aisle.

I am glad the grocery store across the street is adamant about no animals allowed, unless they are genuinely needed for service (like a seeing eye dog, not an emotional support animal). And I am a dog owner. The only store I would ever even considered bringing them into, is the pet store where it's generally okay to bring them (especially since they do grooming and vaxx services).

Hate going to Walmart and seeing actual shit on the floor because some Karen wanted to bring her fucking designer Chihuahua into the store and doesn't clean up after it.

The only problem I've had with other dog owners in California or anywhere else, is owners who don't pick up their dog's shit. I see people bring dogs into stores all the time, they're always fine, I never see problems with that.

Now when I step 6-inches off a popular trail to take a picture of a popular view and step in piles of dog feces that people don't bother to clean because it's technically not someone's yard, that's when I start to wonder if domestication was a good idea. (Of humans that is.)

I love dogs. All dogs. Love them to death.

My fucking mom just lets her little dog go wherever it wants and she almost never has it on a leash. I keep telling her that something is going to go wrong and it will be her fault because she wasn't on a leash, it my mom doesn't seem concerned because she has her dog trained fairly well. And to be fair she does come and stay on command, but I still just find it irresponsible to have a dog in public without a leash.

Pets are the new babies, plants are the new pets and airfryers are the new plants

Babies ate the new "moving to california to become an actres"