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Wow, with the dogs! The increasing trend of bringing dogs to various locations is annoying. What that Doctor did was very unprofessional. The lack of awareness that having two dogs (big ones in this case) wasn’t the best way to conduct a consultation does not speak highly of him. What happens when the dogs have an accident in the medical office? Here in SoCal it is the dog crazy people committing fraud and labeling their dog as a “service dog” to get them everywhere. It has gotten so ridiculous that restaurants are now allowing the “service dogs” only in open/patio spaces, farmer’s markets have banned them, and many other business are at wits end hoping that the dogs don’t have accidents or attack other patrons (they know most dogs are not “service animals”).
The new trend of abusing service animal privileges bothers me as well.
Your Doc came in the examining room with a pair of large yellow dogs? Please tell me this is fiction.
Damn, that won’t happen in my office. I would have been out the door and on the phone to the state board of medical practice (406-444-2676) in a heartbeat.
I guess it’s a matter of how sick you were at the time.
My Doberman had some surgery and I was afraid to leave her at home so I took her to my office for about a month. One day she growled at the USDA inspector and she had to get better quick. He as the only person she grower it.
Oh chill out folks. I found the dog story to be charming, and could care less if my doctor had a pet or two in his office – in fact, therapy dogs in medical settings is getting quite popular.
Who gives a hoot if some proprietary snob thinks its “unprofessional” (they probably long for the return of Nurse Ratched starched whites); the rest of us who believe in informality, friendliness, and dogs would have enjoyed such an office.
Besides, it’s clear the pooch was ready to adopt Sawatdeeka. There is no higher compliment than a dog’s seal of approval…
I’ll talk about the third story, if you don’t mind. My very first job at 16 was in computers, so I never did any retail stuff. However, my son did, and one time he told me that he loved it when the manager made him go out and bring in all the grocery carts. It got him out of the manager’s gaze for a while, he didn’t have to wear the fake smile or answer the same questions over and over about which aisle that thing was, and hot or cold, he got some fresh air. Store air gets kind of thick, especially in winter.
That may be why you got the high-five; he didn’t have to bag groceries for awhile, as long as he was helping you out.
You may be on the right track here. When I was apologetic about getting him away from the busy store where he was needed, he said he was happy to get out.
I wouldn’t mind dogs in that situation. Unless there is some real medical reason they should not be there?
Mr. S is seriously allergic to animals. The trend of people taking their dogs everywhere with them is making his life smaller.
That’ll do it!
@PJS I really dislike how people are abusing the “service animal” provisions of the ADA to narsscistically take their pet with them to pet inappropriate places. I feel for your husband as the crazy dog people are bringing their “emotional support” dogs on flights and I can imagine his misery. A close friend began to act on this self absorption regarding their dog and would sneak in the dog to a movie theater in a big purse because she just wanted to have her dog on her lap while she watched. She would take the dog to the farmer’s market, restaurants, etc. It was getting to the point that I had to put my foot down when she only wanted to go to restaurants with patio seating so she could bring her dog even if it was freezing outside. The farmer’s market banned the dogs, the restaurant owners tightened the requirements by requiring the people to ONLY use the outdoor patios due to hygiene standards, and other shops began to be more strict as well. In essence, she began to get the hint that her dog didn’t have be everywhere and has finally mellowed on the need to have the dog with her.
Honestly, whenever some walking incarnation of a New Yorker cartoon decides she needs that extra time down the jetway to carry her service animal I start thinking, “I know Mao was terribly wrong about most things, but about dogs …”
You’re in California, not Montana, right? That would explain it.
Hey Doc Rocket, no, I’m in the Peoples’ Republik of Massachusetts. But that begs the point. We keep our office clean, free of as many allergens and distractions as possible. I’m OK with dogs–this photo is our most recent one, Louie–but not at work.
I love dogs but am highly allergic to them. Mine is an English Cocker, who when taken care of properly doesn’t cause me problems. Those who assume that their dogs are welcome anywhere are wrong.
I was thinking that, too, when this story first posted a while back. That would be horrifying to be allergic to dogs and you go to a doctor for some reason and a huge hairy dog comes running up to you when you walk in the door.
I love dogs myself, but the last place I expect to see one is at a place of business.
Before ObamaCare, when my doctor had his own practice, there was always a small dog behind the receptionist counter. I’m not sure whose it was. I don’t remember it wandering elsewhere, but it may have.
Under ObamaCare my doctor was sucked into one of those big clinics, and the old receptionists/staff and dog were gone. Now he is no longer practicing medicine.
I prefer the old way.
I’ve made friends with the dogs I’ve met in nursing homes.
I love the trend toward dogs out and about with their owners and on a leash. I think in a private consultation with your doctor that is a step too far. And he should not have allowed it. I am neutral about restaurants allowing dogs on leashes if the dining is outside and the dog remains near its owner and not where someone can trip on them. But I have zero problem with dogs on a leash in stores (yes they allow it Santa Barbara). Naturally all dog owners should clean up after their dogs at parks, sidewalks, etc..
I can take or leave dogs but my wife considers it a bonus when she goes into a business and they have a dog there. We have a cat at work (when she feels like showing herself) and the vast majority of customers like her.
I’ve lost all sympathy for those who feel compelled to take their dogs everywhere. It’s unprofessional, uncivilized and arrogantly insensitive in so many ways. If you do this, please stop. Unless it is a true service dog ( as in: you’re blind, or, it will alert someone if you slip into a diabetic coma, rather than: you are emotionally unstable) then please leave it at home or in the car.
The left likes to call us uncivilized for not having universal health care. So what’s so bad about being uncivilized?
That cat is pretty stinkin’ cute.