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hyperside89 t1_j298heg wrote

Yeah - I actually think coffee shops that are allowing dogs should stop because they are causing problems for the places that are trying to follow the law but giving the impression this is "choice" rather than a law that could get an establishment into deep trouble.

As an aside, beyond people not wanting dogs around their food, pets in places like restaurants, etc have a big negative impact on people who rely on service animals. I have a friend whose service dog was attacked by a pet dog in a hardware store, and it took the service animal months of (expensive) training to overcome the resulting fear of dogs and be able to resume service animal work. For those months my friend didn't have their service animal their life was severely negatively impacted.

I'm a dog lover, have a dog myself. But I understand my dog doesn't get to go everywhere in order for other people to get to enjoy their lives.

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