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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 73209" data-attributes="member: 27">My niece works for Publix, a supermarket chain here in the US.&nbsp; Last year, a woman came into the supermarket with one of those shih-tzu/toy poodle type dogs riding in the child seat in the cart.&nbsp; It was obviously a pet, because he wasn&#039;t behaving as a service animal would.&nbsp; He also got noticeably upset at some point because my niece said everyone in the store could hear him barking up a storm.&nbsp; Anyway, the dog needed to pee and did so---while still sitting in the cart.&nbsp; Obviously it went all over the cart and the floor (in the deli/cheese area).&nbsp; So what did the woman do?&nbsp; She casually picked up the dog and walked out, leaving the pee-covered cart in the puddle.&nbsp; The store manager was called--nobody wanted to touch it, of course--and my niece said the manager ended up having to wipe down the cart and fill out hazardous-waste paperwork on the incident.&nbsp; She said it made her reluctant to ever touch one of the carts in the store without using the sanitizing wipes, because whose to say some other dog hadn&#039;t rubbed his unclean butt in that cart right before she grabbed it to use?&nbsp; Yet the managers still cannot ask a customer to leave if they bring a pet dog (or cat, pig, horse, hedgehog, or whatever) in the store.&nbsp; All they can do is ask if it&#039;s a service animal.&nbsp; If the customer says yes---even if they are lying through their teeth--then Publix corporate says the manager has to leave them alone.&nbsp; The governor claimed to have passed a law making such false statements a misdemeanor, but Publix is more concerned with avoiding lawsuits than anything else.&nbsp; And people who openly flout the rules this way ought to be publicly shamed somehow.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 73209, member: 27"] My niece works for Publix, a supermarket chain here in the US. Last year, a woman came into the supermarket with one of those shih-tzu/toy poodle type dogs riding in the child seat in the cart. It was obviously a pet, because he wasn't behaving as a service animal would. He also got noticeably upset at some point because my niece said everyone in the store could hear him barking up a storm. Anyway, the dog needed to pee and did so---while still sitting in the cart. Obviously it went all over the cart and the floor (in the deli/cheese area). So what did the woman do? She casually picked up the dog and [I]walked out, [/I]leaving the pee-covered cart in the puddle. The store manager was called--nobody wanted to touch it, of course--and my niece said the manager ended up having to wipe down the cart and fill out hazardous-waste paperwork on the incident. She said it made her reluctant to ever touch one of the carts in the store without using the sanitizing wipes, because whose to say some other dog hadn't rubbed his unclean butt in that cart right before she grabbed it to use? Yet the managers still cannot ask a customer to leave if they bring a pet dog (or cat, pig, horse, hedgehog, or whatever) in the store. All they can do is ask if it's a service animal. If the customer says yes---even if they are lying through their teeth--then Publix corporate says the manager has to leave them alone. The governor claimed to have passed a law making such false statements a misdemeanor, but Publix is more concerned with avoiding lawsuits than anything else. And people who openly flout the rules this way ought to be publicly shamed somehow. [/QUOTE]

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