I was walking my sheltie the other day and wanted to stop in at the
library for a few minutes. I was told (nicely) to leave my dog
outside. I didn't do that but I have seen dogs tied up outside a
store and it amazes me that people would do that. I don't know why
but I'm paranoid about somebody taking my pet. I wouldn't leave a
child outside while I go in to a store to do my shopping. Any
comments on this?

Lori

Kayla wrote:
I was walking my sheltie the other day and wanted to stop in at the
library for a few minutes. I was told (nicely) to leave my dog
outside. I didn't do that but I have seen dogs tied up outside a
store and it amazes me that people would do that. I don't know why
but I'm paranoid about somebody taking my pet. I wouldn't leave a
child outside while I go in to a store to do my shopping. Any
comments on this?



I used to leave Genny and Sheppe outside stores all the time. (The
neighborhood is different here where we have Cubbe, and she's not the
sort of personality that takes well to strangers so we don't with her.)
I never had a bad experience with Genny and Sheppe. I imagine that
there could be bad experiences, but I never had any. (Wait. There's an
exception. Some jerks discovered that Genny winced when she heard the
high pitched honk of their horn and kept doing it because they were the
sort who like scaring defenseless animals. I came out of the store,
realized what was going on, and they drove away.) I think that this,
like so many other choices in life, is a matter of weighing risks and
benefits. Especially with Genny, before I had a car, I loved walking
with her all over, stopping in stores and libraries, and walking her
back home. The benefits far outweighed the negatives.


--Lia

"Kayla" wrote in message
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I was walking my sheltie the other day and wanted to stop in at the
library for a few minutes. I was told (nicely) to leave my dog
outside. I didn't do that but I have seen dogs tied up outside a
store and it amazes me that people would do that. I don't know why
but I'm paranoid about somebody taking my pet. I wouldn't leave a
child outside while I go in to a store to do my shopping. Any
comments on this?

i guess it depends on the breed and the area. i wouldn't leave either of my
pit bulls tied outside because idiot kids steal them to fight. i once had
to walk off the sidewalk and into the street because of an aggressive Husky
that had been tied outside a store with a very long lead. and i wouldn't
leave any purebred outside in some areas, because they might get stolen for
breeding purposes.

OTOH, i've met several very sweet dogs tied outside of shops, mostly older
retrievers.

if i need to run inside, i leave my dogs in the car. but mostly i don't
take them with me if they can't come in the store.

-kelly

"culprit" wrote in news:3439trF427m9nU1
@individual.net:

i guess it depends on the breed and the area.

Ditto. When I lived in urban south Baltimore and walked to shops and such,
I'd tie Orson outside the grocery store for 10 minutes, or when I ran into
the corner shop to buy smokes before I quit. That neighborhood was like a
small town unto itself.

I don't do that where I live now, even though it's more suburban. I
wouldn't trust that he'd be left alone. I do take him into a couple of
shops I can walk to, though. The guys at Goodyear love him.

Cate

I would never tie either of my dogs outside any store. I would be terrified
someone would steal them.

I was shopping one day and saw someone trying to take a dog from the front
of the Ames store. The dog was uncooperative, luckily I recognized her as
belonging to my ex-boyfriends mother. I walked up and asked the guy what
the hell he thought he was doing? He says I'm taking my dog home? I set
him straight right then. I said I sure as hell don't thing so because Jenny
belongs to my ex's mother and I know damned well she's not yours now let her
go. He dropped the leash right there and took off. I called Jenny over to
me and walked to my car and sat with her in my car till Marge came out. I
told her what happened she never left her sit outside a store ever again.

I'm just glad I came along when I did because I don't know what would have
happened to her. She was one very well trained dog when you told her to
stay she would. The only reason she came with me is because I practically
lived with them for almost a year and she completely trusted me.

Celeste

"Kayla" wrote in message
...
I was walking my sheltie the other day and wanted to stop in at the
library for a few minutes. I was told (nicely) to leave my dog
outside. I didn't do that but I have seen dogs tied up outside a
store and it amazes me that people would do that. I don't know why
but I'm paranoid about somebody taking my pet. I wouldn't leave a
child outside while I go in to a store to do my shopping. Any
comments on this?

Lori

Kayla wrote in news:6seot018s1q8h0l2e091f4mo5i9a5ih5v3
@4ax.com:

Any
comments on this?

I've tied Storm up in downtown Victoria a few times. She knows how to hold
a down-stay while I'm in the store and gets lots of warm fuzzies from
people when we're walking/shopping downtown in general. If I leave her,
it's in front of a little store where I can keep an eye on her. I think
JQP figures that she's "just" a mutt anyway, so I don't think there's much
risk of her attracting a thief.

Happy dog socializing and exploring the city with happy me, because I have
my lovely dog with me, happy children who get to pat the well-behaved
dog... it's a big win all around.

(micro-brag) I was so proud of her the week before Christmas: we went down
to the chocolate shop, and when I came out, she was down but wagging at a
little 2yo girl. The girl's mum had the sense to tell her daughter that
she couldn't pat the doggie without permission, which I gave.

Storm held her sit and ever so gently licked the childie on the nose while
she patted her: and did not, ever, even try to eat the chocolate that the
little girl was waving under her nose.

My puppy has grown up... *sniff*

--
Kate
and Storm the FCR

KWBrown said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

I've tied Storm up in downtown Victoria a few times.

Yup. I used to tie good ol' Murphy in front of Victoria stores
a lot. When we moved to the big city, I found that I was
spending too much time darting to the store window to make sure
she was still safe.

The last time I tied a dog outside a store was when I took
Friday to Montreal and we needed a bottle of wine (OK, it wasn't
"we", it was me). The area we were in was like a quaint
village, and it felt safe. Plus, the store had big windows.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

"Kayla" wrote in message
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I was walking my sheltie the other day and wanted to stop in at the
library for a few minutes. I was told (nicely) to leave my dog
outside. I didn't do that but I have seen dogs tied up outside a
store and it amazes me that people would do that. I don't know why
but I'm paranoid about somebody taking my pet. I wouldn't leave a
child outside while I go in to a store to do my shopping. Any
comments on this?

Lori


It's very normal here, but Saskia is a bit shy, and, being a very pretty
fawn Dane, attracts lots of people trying to pet her, which can frighten her
if they get in her face. One girl of about 12 even kept very rudely trying
to get around me to pet her, while I was saying, "Stop! Let her come to you!
You're scaring her!" and eventually the kid lunged around and grabbed her
leash, the little idiot. I gave the kid what for, I tell you! So we won't be
leaving her outside, but she's welcome here in all the open-air markets,
small shops and galleries, most cafes and restaurants, butcher shops and
bakeries, all bars and pubs, coffeeshops, etc. I do wish we could take her
into the library or the art museums or big department stores or some of the
chain stores selling all kinds of what-not, but no. I have also been
informed that she is one of the breeds that ARE a theft-risk here, although
she'd be hard to steal.

Most of the dogs I see here that get left do a great job, just waiting
quietly--often not tied--but there are occasional problems. There was a
border collie outside the local supermarket that kept lunging and lunging,
lots of teeth out, at anyone who came by. There was a pair of what looked
like malamutes tied (in my opinion, stupidly) right to the door frame of a
local housewares store, and they were standing in the actual doorway,
completely blocking it, staring into the store and howling--for a long time.
And several times I have encountered the lost dog nervously exploring the
interior of the supermarket because he got sick of waiting in the lobby. Oh,
and there is an absolutely ADORABLE huge mastiff that used to wait quietly
without being tied in the supermarket lobby, and one day he just
matter-of-factly walked off with someone carrying a bag of raw sausages.
That person stopped and came back when he realized what was happening, so
now the mastiff is tied. One thing--dogs are welcome in the supermarket if
they are in your shopping cart. Saskia weighs in at 105 pounds now (she's 10
months old)--I'm awfully tempted to pop her in a cart and see what happens!

--Katrina

No way. Or leave it in a car either. Can't tke my dog with me? It stays
home where it's nice & safe

yeah, i think stores should have a lockup domestic animal shelter (as you
know, horses are domestic animals too)