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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 23, 2024

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I think this is a rather localized phenomenon. I never see dogs* in stores where I live and, as a dog owner, the idea of wanting to take my dog with me to the store makes no sense. The only people I've met who do so seem to have picked the idea up living in the south western US (eg, CA, NV), either having grown up there or moved later in life, and people around here have no problem telling them to keep their dogs home.

*With the rare exception of seeing eye dogs and police dogs.

I never see dogs*

*With the rare exception of seeing eye dogs and police dogs

  • No dogs are permitted on the premises under any circumstances.
  • Any animal assisting a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
  • Any animal entering on police business shall be deemed to be a wombat.
  • Any animal which the Speaker wishes to admit shall be deemed to be a mongoose.

--supposedly from the rules of some Oxbridge debating society.

Further evidence that debators are far less clever than they think.

It was also a big thing in Washington (at least Seattle) when I lived there... restaurants, grocery stores, whatever.

I worked at Amazon (office, not warehouse) and it was company policy that you could even bring your dogs to the office if they were well behaved. I honestly enjoyed it when my coworkers brought in their dogs -- but much of that was that they weren't random dogs so you got to know them. The 404 page on Amazon still has pics of people's dogs. The real differentiator here was that this was all done with permission and vetting.

I'm now in Nashville and I'm not seeing this effect as much here. Though people have a habit of not leashing their laws out where I live. Admittedly, I'm out in the exurbs, so that might have something to do with that phenomenon.

Dogs with jobs are a very different thing in any case. Real service animals are a true boon to their owners. Police dogs are in a similar boat.

A classic post from Ask a Manager on this subject. It has interesting updates which are linked at the bottom of the post.

To be clear, my post wasn’t intended to capture things like seeing eye dogs.

Oh, I totally got that from your original post. I was just responding to the last bit thrownaway's comment above mine.

I also get really annoyed at all of the "emotional support dogs" that people claim are protected by the ADA, which they aren't really, hence "real service animals." Though I would love for someone to have an emotional support miniature horse just as a troll. (They also are mentioned by the ADA along with dogs as being eligible for being service animals)

My cousin had an emotional support falcon.

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