Dogs now allowed in John Lewis stores

I am a mother who abandoned her young baby outside the bank! She was still quite new & I simply forgot to collect the pram as I left the bank. I got to the end of my road..only a minute or so from the bank before I remembered her! Right by a very busy road junction at Sth Wimbledon Stn! No dog to protect her!

I also left my dog, tied to the pram handles, outside shops in the 70's.
My mother was cooking when she suddenly asked "where\s the baby" -she'd left my sister in her pram, outside the corner shop. Mum ran back and there was the pram, with the sleeping baby inside.
Off topic but, didn't babies sleep well during the day when they were put into their prams, outside in the garden.

I used to leave the pram (and baby) with dog attached outside our local post office on family allowance day. One day there was an insistent tapping on the shop window and the village priest was outside leaning round the corner and looking very perplexed. My dog wouldn't let him past to get to the door. Even a soppy, slightly overweight, wimp of a black cocker spaniel can look quite vicious when he curls his lip. He let anyone else past with a friendly wag of his stump of a tail but he obviously thought a man in a long frock was suspicious.

Eugh! I hate dead fish - I think I may have abandoned the baby!

Annep! Family lore has it that my dad once left my brother in his pram outside the Post Office. By the time mum retrieved him, he'd managed to get into the shopping and was having a wonderful time squeezing the herring dad had bought for tea that night. He was apparently covered from head to toe in fish innards & scales!

Suedonim that brings back memories. I remember returning from the shops and my mum saying where's the baby? I'd left the shop and forgotten the pram outside!

It doesn't bother me at all. I don't like the dogs-as-accessories trend though.

Looking for one big enough to sit in and be carried around, no doubt.

I think some dogs are fashion accessories these days, probably to be found browsing in the handbag department of JL.

I have just had a vague recollection that my sister mentioned (sometime last year) that she was told to bring her dog along next time she was shopping in
The White Stuff.

In case it was it was just a false memory had quick Google.

On the store blurb it states that they provide a tea trolley and free Wi-Fi, seating area and a dog bowl!

My sister has 2 Springer Spaniels

Oh so it's the Welwyn Garden City John Lewis.
I use that one. It is local for me.
I haven't got a dog .
Or an orang u tang
Although I do have a camera.

Dogs in bags may the lord preserve us!

Iam64 never mind the dog, I used to leave my baby in his pram outside shops, 40 years ago! He generally had company, though, with other babies similarly temporarily abandoned.

I went past our local TSB today as a lady was going in with a lovely Cockerpoo. She was obviously stopped from taking him in as when I came back he was sitting outside looking in through the glass door. His lead wasn’t hooked onto anything as there wasn’t anywhere. He just sat in the middle of the door, blocking it completely, waiting for his mistress who was on the inside. I got the impression the dog was making a point!

I agree that normally most people don’t take their dogs shopping, especially in department stores like John Lewis. They get in the way in the changing rooms. But many people holiday with their dogs and it’s not always practical, say in hotels, or possible, as in hot days in a caravan, to leave the dog behind. A blanket ban seems a bit harsh.

Guide and Assistance dogs cope well with being in stores and busy town centres. I've taken my dogs in as part of training and socialisation as the more exposure dogs have, the less likely they are to do that 'bark' thing that annoys so many people.
40 plus years ago, I was going into town shopping, I took my dog with me and she waited, tied to a post outside the shop. I'd never dream of leaving a dog tied up outside a shop these days. someone would surely steal the dog.

It’s dogism. The Motorhome and Caravan Club insists that dogs be kept on leads at all times while cats, there’s more than you think that go caravanning, can stroll around freely.

When we stayed with friends in the south of France we went to the Cafe De Paris in Monte Carlo accompanied by their two Border Collies and nobody seemed to find it at all odd.

No from me. Stores, cafes etc. Are not places for dogs. It is not fair to other shoppers (or the dogs) . I have never owned a dog nor want to, but I can see problems with them in big stores if there are several in the department at once. I also would leave an eating place if there were dogs in there. My choice I know, but I could not enjoy a meal sitting close by a dog, feels unhygienic.

I think it's a great idea!

Ha ! I went into B.H.S. once and there was a CAT on a lead waiting in the queue !!

I saw a bloke going through a department store (I think it was Debenhams) with a Labrador in a child carrier on his back, back paws just sticking through the holes. The dog seemed quite comfortable and happy.

I wouldn't take my dog shopping as she would hate it. Occasionally, when I'm out with her I wish I could pop into the shop to get the milk or bread we need....I wouldn't tie her up outside & I wouldn't leave her in the car. Even though it would sometimes make life easier if she was allowed in the shop, I wouldn't really want my local little co-op full of dogs.
However, when we are on holiday it can be really hard if we can't find a dog friendly place to eat. Last summer we were camping & it poured...my bf, his son & my DD ate inside a cafe. I stayed outside under my brolly with my dog. (Bf did offer to swap places, but shes my dog.)

I once saw someone walking through the city centre with a very large rabbit on their shoulder!

I shall start by saying I like dogs and would have one possibly in a few years when we stop travelling. But many dog owners treat their dogs like children now and are offended when others don't think the same. I don't like dogs in places where food is served. And why would you carry your dog shopping. Its not a baby!

Ellen
Didn't you get breathless from lack of oxygen in the hold?