I was really upset when I went shopping at Safeway to see a woman with a dog in her bosom petting the dog and touching the vegetables that I have to buy. This is so nasty and unhygienic. I’m sorry but I think a lot of North Americans are going soft in the head and lack basic hygiene. You don’t touch dog and touch things people have to eat regardless whether you have to wash them or not.
Many newcomers do not understand this and you shop at places like Safeway and think they have high hygience standards but they don’t. This is just a slippery slope. You allow one person and the next thing is that you will have dogs shitting and vomiting in the supermarket.
You know what if that continues I will just have to shop at the ethnic stores which have higher standard of cleanliness.
I do not keep dogs or cats in and I certainly don’t want to bump into them in the supermarket where I buy my food. I have nothing against the poor animals but I’m not into animal abuse. Animals deserve their freedom just as human beings do and keeping them in your bosoms and locked in houses is not freedom.
PS This young woman with the dog was not a blind woman. It was not a seeing eye-dog which must be accommodated according to the law.
6 Comments
May 4, 2009 at 3:27 am
I think people are acting ridiculous about certain dogs in stores. I think if the dog is in a purse/carrier or in your shirt it is fine. I don’t think allowing it to walk on the floor is okay because some people are scared of dogs and it’s easier to control them if there near by. But touching your dog then touching vegetables which have spider webs and usually pecticides on them anyway…why should it matter. Also, do you know how many people scratch their butt, pick their nose, cough/sneeze in their hand, touch the shopping carts that have hundreds of germs and bacteria on it? They touch those same products too. Do you realize that particles of dead skin float in the air and go on those foods? So why should the lady petting her dog matter so much when people, including yourself, probably do way more ‘disgusting’ things without realizing it.
May 4, 2009 at 5:45 am
i cant help it that I;m one of those queasy about stuff like that. Dogs like their butts and then lick the faces of people – that can;t be hygienic or healthy. Dogs do not belong in supermarkets, people do. I guess there are nasty people as well that is why I buy pre-packaged stuff in supermarkets and not vegetables that people touch a lot except potatores and onionis and stuff you can peel. I am not going to get dog flu – sorry.
June 16, 2009 at 5:41 am
We have confronted Safeway and the dog owners several times to no avail. The owners don’t get it, and Safeway management is too scared to take a stand. As the saying goes “Your right to swing your fist ends where my noes begins”. The rights of dog owners that can’t bear to leave there toy dogs at home to grocery shop end when it tramples the rights of others. My family is a dog loving family and a few of our dogs are rescues, but as a Ca. state certified Animal Health Technician I am well aware of how easy internal parasites such as Giardia, Tapeworms, whipworms and external funguses such as ringworm and skin mites are passed to humans. Unless they are trained service animals, there is no reason for them to be in a food market. Get a dog sitter!
June 16, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Thank you
August 5, 2009 at 7:01 am
If they leave the dog outside, they’ll still have dog “germs” on themselves.
Boohoo.
August 28, 2009 at 4:18 am
I think there is some softening of the brains in the developed world to start treating dogs like people and have then kissing their behinds then kissing their owners on their lips and mouth. Is there no boundaries between dogs and humans? What is wrong with people these days. Since when we have become so nasty that we are not practising good hygiene. Certainly no dog belongs in a grocery store except if that dog is for a purpose like leading a blind person in that case it is not a pet but a functional animal that has a job to do. Other people should just keep their pets at home and not bring it out like the latest gadget.