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Originally Posted by Byrnison
Out here in Los Angeles it has apparently become OK to bring your pets with you into stores over the last few years. So much so that I even remember a newspaper article on it a few years back describing how stores were accomodating such actions. I was in Home Depot last week and entered the building behind a man with some sort of smallish breed on a leash. I admit that I am one of those that views a pet as a family member and would go above and beyond...but I mean c'mon...Home Depot?
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A few months back I was out shopping with my mom at Lowe's and saw a dog that was clearly NOT a service dog on a leash there. Despite the posted signs saying that only service dogs are allowed, no employee made an effort to get the dog out of the store. To me, it's a safety issue--I don't want to trip over your dog in Lowe's while I'm carrying a large object or run it over with a cart because I can't see it.
My parents' dog goes places, but he never goes anywhere a dog isn't expected to be, and more often than not, they leave him home (despite the fact he is a well-trained dog, they just don't want to deal with the hassle of traveling with the dog). Not too long ago, my SO's mother was bad-mouthing the behavior of my SO's cousin's dogs, who are two little out-of-control hellions. She was saying that she wasn't going to allow dogs at their house any more, just to keep the cousin's dogs from coming over ever again. But then she turned to me and said, "But your folks can bring Jack over any time! He's so well-behaved!" Phew.
I see this as part of a larger trend wherein people simply have stopped caring about what people think of them and just want to do whatever they want, whenever they want, and to hell with society. Unfortunately, this kind of attitude doesn't just stop with dogs--it applies to how parents treat children, too. There is this sense of entitlement that just boggles my mind, like these people think: "This is how it is, deal with it." Ugh!
Yeah, and you just KNOW that lady with the golden retriever that rubbed his ass all over her mother's white carpet is just going to raise a GREAT child. Jeez...you couldn't succeed training the dog, so you thought you'd have a KID?! At least with the dog, there are classes you can take, but God knows no one ever considers parenting lessons.