Hi, just wondering about the title of this thread. For me, bringing dogs to work is like having kids, i was never quite a fan of it until i had one. Then i think it’s the grandest idea! So i got a dog, and he’s sitting here with me at my desk, and i have never been happier at work! we even brought his mint flavored tennis ball to throw down the hallway of cubicals during breaks and i now have company for my smoke breaks! yeah! anyone else get to bring their dog to work?
Yeah, I bring my Rottie to work but I own the place. 
We know of other business owners that bring their dogs to the office but the employees don’t usually get the same deal. (No we don’t allow employees to bring their pets to work but only because ours is trained extremely well and we can control her, plus insurance issues and so on.)
Assuming you’re an employee, what type of work do you do and what did your boss say when you asked?
No, I work in a restaurant and if I showed up with my dogs to wait tables they’d send me back home. 
Now, on the other hand my other half has brought our dogs to work before. He is the manager of an office/warehouse. He stays in the office most of the time. He took the dogs in when I had to leave town last year. He didn’t want them being at home by themselves for 12 hrs. Our poodle Max and shih-tzu Gizmo were a big hit at the office. They seemed to brighten everyones day with some of their antics.
If my apartment allowed pets that didn’t need to be kept in fish tanks*, i’d have a dog, and yes, i’d bring it to work with me, almost everyone at work does…
where do i work?
lets see, in the warehouse there’s;
Libby, a golden Lab
Zoe, a black lab (she’s down in the warehouse when the Small Dogs upstairs get annoyed with her)
Spy, a Siberian Husky (same situation as Zoe)
Lucy, a black Golden Doodle
Griffin, a Chow/Black Lab mix
upstairs in the office;
Fan Tail Shrimp, the owner’s black Pomeranian
Lyekka, an American Eskimo
George, not sure what he is, he’s a puppy that appears to be some form of Dachsund/Lab mix…
*i suppose i could get a 55 gallon fish tank and keep a Chihuaua in it, but i don’t really like Chihuauas 
hopefully, since my landlords are selling the business to their son, i can get a pet clause put in my lease, i’m more than willing to pay a pet deposit, right now the only “pets” i have in the apartment are a Chilean Rose Hair tarantula, and a 20 long tank with 5 Dwarf Pufferfish and 3 Otocinclis catfish in it, none of these animals are particularly “cuddly”, they can’t play fetch, but at least the puffers follow my motions from within the tank and beg for food, they’re more interactive than my grumpy ol’ tarantula…
i am an employee of a very small wholesale power company. i work 12 hour shifts, i am on the night rotation now, and as such i am alone. no insurance worries here. actually, he’s great, he’s a tri-colored australian shepard, so he’s big enough to protect me! and he’s trying to get a bite of my mac and cheese right now!.
i am teaching him new words tonight!
oh, and my boss said ‘sure’ in passing when i mentioned bringing Murray to work. not sure if he meant it or not. but i guess iwill find out tomorrow…
My dogs are two of five that are commonly at our office. But this is a field construction office, and it’s not too intrusive.
My two border collies don’t actually come inside much; they’d rather hang out in the truck all morning, which I can see from my window when I’m not out driving around. I drop them off at home at lunch time so they don’t get too hot.
There are also three other dogs - one is a big fat mixed breed - speedbump and lab, I think. She’s actually a hazard because of her habit of laying right in the middle of the hallway and not moving out of the way.
I’m not a huge fan of giving the dogs free rein of the whole office by themselves. There have been too many unpleasant accidents. Mine, when they do come in, are only in my own office and supervised, not left to wander and bother other people.
One of the advantages of working from home other than not having a United Way Drive is having your dog right there with you. She doesn’t usually come in the office but she does poke her little snoot in the doorway when she is starving for some attention.
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I brought the guide dog puppies we were training to work several times, and my daughter brought them to school - to great affection. The cool thing about training guide dogs is that you can, and should, bring them anywhere. I always took them to my writing group in the local Barnes and Noble, to restaurants, to the supermarket, even to the airport.
I could bring my pet dog to work, but he’d be bored. My wife works from home, and he prefers the chance to go into the yard at will and protect us from squirrels and cats.
My husband works at a school, and he can take the dogs on days when he has to work and the kids are not there. The female likes it - she’s content to curl up on a blanket - but the male gets fussy and whiny because he wants to explore and cannot do so unaccompanied.
Overall I think they are happiest when the hub is home over the summer and they can wander in and out of the house at will. They also get longer walks.
I wish I was allowed to bring a pup to work, but I work in a building where there are lab animals in one of the wings and pets aren’t allowed due to the possibility of bringing in diseases.
Well, I don’t have a dog yet but I asked my boss (jokingly) if I could bring it
into work when I get one. He unhesitantly answered, “Yes”. I will be holding him to that response!
Since it’s a taxidermy shop, I should probably make sure he’s aware that the dog will be alive…
We all bring our pets to work with us at some point. It’s one of the perks of working in a vet clinic. Mine aren’t particularly fond of it, since they mostly have to sit in a kennel and it often means they’re getting baths. They don’t really mind, though. People usually fuss over them after their walks, they love riding in the car, and lying around all night is all they’d do at home anyway.
When my patient yellow lab Leo was alive, I often brought him with me to the glass shop. He would curl up on his blanket under the workbench and nap or gnaw a rawhide bone, unless a customer came in…then he had to mosey on out and say hello. He was always very popular with the customers because he was so mild-mannered and well-behaved.
But now I have a young and exuberant white pitbull named Zim. He adores everyone, and especially loves to play with other dogs. Although he is friendly as can be, and very obedient, he is also extremely inquisitive and “gets into” things he shouldn’t. I have to be very careful about this; there are a lot of nasty chemicals and dangerous sharp objects in a stained glass studio. So he stays home when I’m working now.
My two Boxers are here in the office with me today. They are snoozing with the owner’s Dalmation at the moment. I work for a very small software company that has a long history of being pet friendly.
It helps to keep the mood light and fun. Getting up and tossing toys around with the dogs provides a nice break during the day. Luckily, we conduct all of our business by phone, email, etc., with no outside visitors. To our customers we appear to be the model of professionalism. If they could only see what things really look like around here! Aside from a a few ill-timed barks in the background of phone conversations, we have had few problems.
I wish. Maybe when I get my bookstore going.
I do once in awhile. If I’m running around town and stop by the office, i must bring my dog in for a few minutes or suffer the wrath of two secretaries who love her. Thankfully, everyone else is OK about having a singing huskie come in. Other staff sometimes bring their dog in for a few hours if the dog has a vet or grooming apointment later in the day.
I also bring her in sometimes after hours when I’ve been traveling alot or putting in a lot of hours. There’s usually no one else around. One night, the capo-de-capo showed up distributing Christmas mugs. She enthused over the dog for several minutes and never said anything about having her in the office.
The only time I ever got a “don’t bring your dog in” was with a previous dog (full malamute). It involved a security person and a dog who made it quite clear that it was not safe to approach me quickly and aggressively at night when my back was turned.
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