Mmmm…slow-roasted laprat…
Not enough meat to make it worth the effort. Another advantage of tiny, adorable dogs.
Quick stories…
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We went to a state park at mid-day and some asses left their two labs in the back of a truck camper shell with no water, baking in the heat. We lifted the hatch door and poured ice water into their bowl. We told the Ranger. Before breaking the windows out, the Ranger located the owners of the truck. Their excuse? “It was shady this morning when we parked.” :smack: Thankfully, the Ranger cited them.
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My ex-gf used to carry a min-pin into grocery stores. The dog was well behaved at all times and never walked on the floor. One day, a clerk interrupted her shopping to tell her dogs are not allowed. Ohhhhh… she was pissed, because who’s being hurt by the pooch anyway?
Reminds me when she took the dog in a carry bag into a movie theater. You couldn’t see into the bag due to dark mesh. Anyway, all was going well until a character in the movie rang a doorbell and the dog let out 2 little yaps and a growl. People laughed and one guy said, “Your purse is barking.” That was embarrassing.
It varies by state I’m sure, but in many places (including my own state, Indiana), it’s a health-code violation for non-service animals to be in grocery stores, and the store can be heavily fined or even shut down if it can be shown that employees have allowed customers to bring their animals in.
So yeah, the dog might be cute and all, but why get upset at an employee who is following the law?
What the f…?
Isn’t the point of going to a park partly to exercise or hike or whatever *with *your dogs?
We do take our small dog a lot of places, but not to a restaurant or theatre.
She was mad that the no dog rule existed, not mad at the clerk.
It was a historic park with an indoor exhibit.
I intensely dislike dogs in restaurants. I once posted about it, and an overwhelming majority of replies insisted the problem was with me, not dogs.
Still, I do wonder how many people who don’t like dogs in restaurants have dogs at home.
Me? No. They’re animals and they are filthy. They do not belong inside a clean home. Same with cats, rats, mice, and goldfish. Snakes, for some reason, get a free pass. But I don’t have those, either.
Here’s a relevant article from the NY Times about dogs in stores in Oregon.
How exactly are service animals somehow not a health violation while non-service ones are? Do they really think the blind man’s dog doesn’t attract the same diseases?
OP: Count me as one who owns two lapdogs, but would never dream of bringing them with me. Well, maybe a short trip for the mini-dachshund when there will be one of us outside to watch him…
As a matter of social policy it’s been decided that the benefits provided by service animals to the disabled outweigh the risks of disease or contamination of food establishments.
In theory a Service dog is specially trained and also has to be up to date on all shots and Vet exams. And what **Boyo Jim **sez.
The problems with the laprats is that the owners are mistreating them by allowing the laprat to act as Alpha when the human MUST be the Alpha. See, since they aren’t really dangerous, this kind of aggressive behavior (which would get any dog that even looked vaguely like a Pitbull shot on sight ) is looked upon by these morons as “cute”. :rolleyes:Which makes the laprat even more psycho. :eek:
This is actually animal abuse of a sort.
However, the Op is wrong about leaving them in the car, as has been said. They need to be left… at a good dog obedience trainer where they will get that stupid nonsense right out of both the owner and the dog.
Reminds me of the time I took a friend to a cheesesteak place that had opened recently in Anchorage. It was the first one in town that made an edible cheesesteak and was owned by a guy from Philly. Anyway, it was a tiny hole in the wall dump, but seemed clean enough.
So Ray agrees to go with me for lunch one day and we sat down at a table to wait for our order. Ray looks around the place, including the floor, then looks at me and calmly asks: “So, does the dogshit on the floor cost extra?” Sure enough, right under our table is a pile of excrement obviously left by a medium-sized dog. I walked over to the counter, pointed it out to the owner, got my money back and we left. And THAT, my friends, is why dogs don’t belong where food is served.
And that’s another reason why genuine service dogs can be an exception to the rule: both dogs and owners are better-trained than that :mad:
I say “genuine” because some people appear to have decided that Fluffy should be considered a “service animal” because they’ve heard people with social anxiety can get service animals and they get so upset when they’re not with their precious babykins… :rolleyes: In the US, at least, the restaurant owner can’t force the customer to prove the animal is a legitimate service animal. Good deal for the people who need them, but unfortunately it opens the door for assholes to abuse the system. Hell, it takes the damn door off its hinges and sets it on fire for good measure.
Ha…hub has threatened to carry our two Yorkies and claim they were his seeing-eye dogs. 
For the record, our “laprats” are very well behaved so all you haters out there can piss off. The health laws already prohibit us from taking our dogs into your pwecious widdle westaurants (which we all know are 100% sanitary :rolleyes:).
I can’t believe that a group of well-educated, saavy adults would even stoop so low as to joke about cooking Fluffy in the car, drop kicking, or punting our “babies”.
Full disclosure moment: I used to scoff at the people who “poo-pooed” over their dogs as if they were babies. I mean, seriously, how could anyone be so stupid as to get all googly over their dogs, fercryinoutloud. Then, this little guy came into our lives. We’ve never been the same. Yes, they are dogs. Yes, they have to know their place in our pack. Yes, they are members of our family.
I don’t believe this is correct, though the standard of “proof” is fairly low. In most places, service animals have to be marked as such, with some piece of clothing identifying them, or those special harnesses for seeing eye dogs. I will look for a cite for this, but I would expect that the rules would vary from one state to the next.
If you go back and read the initial post, it’s a rant about peoples’ ill-behaved pooches and their inability to control same. This board is and always has been about gallows humor, which is one of the reasons I like it. You can’t seriously believe that any of us (or perhaps “most” is a better word) are serious about harming an animal.
When people get all googly over their dogs in public, it makes them seem mentally impaired. People who actually have conversations with their pets and who project human traits on their animals are batshit crazy. It’s different with our cat, as she is clearly the reincarnation of my mother.
There’s standards of Proof and even criminal charges for a fake Service dog: CALIFORNIA CODES
FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE
SECTION 30850-30854
*30850. (a) The animal control department shall endorse upon the
application for an assistance dog identification tag the number of
the identification tag issued. As used in this chapter, “assistance
dogs” are dogs specially trained as guide dogs, signal dogs, or
service dogs. All applications that have been endorsed shall be kept
on file in the office of the animal control department and shall be
open to public inspection.
(b) Whenever a person applies for an assistance dog identification
tag, the person shall sign an affidavit stating as follows:
“By affixing my signature to this affidavit, I hereby declare I
fully understand that Section 365.7 of the Penal Code prohibits any
person to knowingly and fraudulently represent himself or herself,
through verbal or written notice, to be the owner or trainer of any
canine licensed as, to be qualified as, or identified as, a guide
dog, signal dog, or service dog, as defined in subdivisions (d), (e),
and (f), respectively, of Section 365.5 of the Penal Code and
paragraph (6) of subdivision (b) of Section 54.1 of the Civil Code,
and that a violation of Section 365.7 of the Penal Code is a
misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not
exceeding six months, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars
($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.”
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Or at least one hopes that it was dog shit, as opposed to a statement left by an unattentive parent’s offspring.
Carrying little dogs around as accessories is nothing but attention whoring, period.
Ok, I read the title and thought what is a LaPrat (prounouced with snooty vowels, like vase that doesn’t rhyme with race, vahz)? I wondered if it were a new smart phone like the Palm Pre. I am so going to call purse dogs this now.