This has gotten out of control
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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It is illegal. You can’t bring pets into areas that sell any prepared food.
But the problem is if you ask them, they will just say it’s a service animal and then what are you supposed to do?
Edit: thank you to sh1ps for sharing this link on dogs not being allowed in food areas
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=114259.5.
Also, stop telling me what the two legal questions are. I know what they are, but even if you ask them, the owner can *still lie*. Stunner, right?
Lastly, and most importantly, for your own reading, here is the ADA website for this: https://www.ada.gov/topics/service-animals/
There are only 2 reasons you can ask someone with a service animal to leave as a result of their service animals behavior
1) The animal is not housebroken
2) The owner cannot get the animal under control
Therefore, if you own a business in the bay area and someone claims to have a service dog but the dog is clearly misbehaving, please feel empowered to ask them to leave. Even if it’s a real service dog you are still legally protected.
no one enforces anything around here, that’s why these entitled people keep doing it
This is tame compared to LA lol but yeah people need to stop bringing dogs every. Single. Place.
I literally saw one drop a duce in Target.
Recently this Target had to put up a large sign on the doors explicitly stating that non service dogs are not permitted under any circumstances.
I’ve actually seen service dogs that look similar to that one. I specifically saw one trained to detect an epileptic seizure. I notice this man has the leash very short and seems to be very much in control. I could believe that this is one of the rare cases of actually satisfying the intent of the ADA.
I wish there was a requirement to have a tag, much like a handicap tag for a car.
Or when people bring their dogs to valley fair mall and they obviously have a sign that says no dogs allowed but they don’t enforce it? 😵💫
Might just fuck around and bring my goat then
I love dogs and I often take my dog with me on errands but the buck stops @ the grocery store. I really don’t think pets should be anywhere near produce/food
Nooooo Cuddles has to lick the produce or he gets anxiety
This is nasty. There’s way too many entitled dog owners that think they can just do whatever.
My favorite of this week was an off leash pitbull in Home Depot in EPA.
Uh, it is.
I work in a public building. I always ask if it’s a service dog, and people say yes. I then ask what service the dog has been trained to do. 100% of the time, the person gets flustered and says, “He’s a good boy!”
Saw a couple bring a big bear like dog into a Whole Foods last week. That dog was slobbering near the cheese. Why can’t staff enforce health regulations and rules?!
San Jose I’m guessing
The real issue is those bright orange shoes.
California’s problem is accountability and enforcement of accountability to laws with repercussions.
I’m sorry leave your dog outside or stay outside with your dog.
California loves bringing their dogs literally everywhere. I work in a hospital
People should be honest and follow the rules, but how do you know this isn’t a legitimate service dog?
I know. That outfit is so unflattering.
He may be a service dog , people with disabilities come in different shapes and sizes. I would not presume
to be fair that one at least has a controlling harness on them. We can’t see more to evaluate behavior;
But, come on. We’ve seen worse.
No leash at all, aggressive behaviors, a lot worse situations.
Beautiful dog.
Can I smoke my emotional support cigarette indoors?
Had an incident with this last year. I work at a grocery store and this one dude comes in, fairly regular customer, and it’s clear he wasn’t a service dog. Maybe 5 minutes later, I walk down an aisle, and see a pile of shit in the corner 😭
Bro was absolutely TRIFLING for letting his dog do that, the LEAST you could’ve done was tell an employee so it could’ve been picked up. To just leave the store without saying anything was crazy lmao
Why is this even a concern?