Since I can't post on/bump my previous thread about this, I am starting a new one/update.

Two dogs back in the office today (the high strung Yorkie and the mutt) and the Yorkie just in a vacant office.

I do not like pets in the office.


Between the dogs and 16 new interns, I feel like I'm in a f*cking zoo.

Is there no way to start having allergic symptoms? Or go to your boss with an empty bottle of Claritin (or some other allergy medicine) and explain that they should start reimbursing you for the medicine you have to buy because of the inconvenience that the pet owners at the office are putting you through.

it might cause a policy change with the pets being in the office.

Oh and smelling in an office?

Service animals ( guide dogs and the such ... ) Okay


"Pets" no so much

Mach said:

Agreed. Unless it's your own business (like when you walk into a shop and the owner's pet laying under the register), and even then I wonder "what about folk who might come in and be afraid of dogs?", but I guess it's their loss (the owner).

Office, not cool.
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It always perplexes me when people think that just because they love their animals that somehow you're going to love them too.

Bringing pets to work is not cute and not polite.

johnart said:

Totally agree.


But then again, here in Thailand animals are every fucking place.

I could be eating at an open air restaurant and see rats scurry on a ledge, chasing each other, then a cat sneaking a piece of dropped food into the bushes, then dogs following people hoping to receive some mercy meals.

It's sometimes all too much.

I used to work in a private school. The Principal was a little .
One day after the kids were gone for the year, the teachers were there doing whatever to wrap up. All of a sudden, two huge Rottweilers came roaming down the hall. She had brought them to the school!


TheVoid said:


- I was in the bank a few months ago- one of those old-fashioned one with the extremely high ceilings, built "forever" ago... A woman came walking in with her dog on a leash- not in her purse (), but walking on all fours. That dog barked like crazy as she stood in the long bank line while it echoed thru that old building. She didn't have sense enough to take it out!! She just kept talking baby-talk to it.

- My Mom works at a mall where they supply "doggie strollers".


LEAVE. IT. HOME.
Don't take it to work, don't bring it to the mall, bank or supermarket... Just don't.

(and yes, I love dogs- very much. I just don't think people should take them everywhere.)

Mach said:

agreed!

TheVoid said:

paintedlady said:

it's bad enough dealing with their smelly lunches brought from home. puts me right off my food, i tell you..

whistle said:

Eww right?? I thought the smell of somebody's boiled onion gravy was bad.

TheVoid said:

odd, this is the same way i feel about children.

Cuddles said:

Totally. My aunt used to bring her daughter to work and used to swear up and down how they just loooooved her. Everyone loooooves spending time with her!
Umm...NO.
No, Tom doesn't "just love" having little Jenny at his fuckin desk all day. He just doesn't wanna make a big deal about you dumpin her on him like he's the nanny.
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Cuddles said:

People don't bring their screaming kids to work... why should shitty doggies be any different?

thinking of the original thread makes me giggle. i forget what i said the first time around but the variety store down the street from me has this black cat that comes in and out . something about an animal like a cat, that lays on the shelves sometimes, in a place where i buy food, even if it's just ice cream or chips makes me gag hard

My boss brought his dog to work today

She's sitting under my desk now

there's a guy here at work who once in a while will bring his dog in...I love it! but I will admit that if it was many people or if this guy brought him in all the time...I'd probably be annoyed by it.
I actually love it when I go into a shop or something and there's a cat hanging around makes me feel happy!

johnart said:

Right on. I feel this way too. I don't expect everyone to love all the things I love; so don't get all huffy when I don't think your little brat or yippy, poopy dog is the most wonderful thing in the world.

ThreadCula said:

But how would you feel if it left you a ?

It's lucky that Yorkie shit in a vacant office 'cause if it would have been under my desk I would have been .

paintedlady said:

Yeah, I don't like that either. I'm have a very sensitive sense of smell. The smell of tuna makes me . At my first job, I shared an office with 2 other people; we had a "no eating at one's desk" rule between us for this very reason.

Cuddles said:

concur!

hell, I even hate when people leave them outside all day and night to bark and howl, how irritating. Why get a "pet" and you leave it outside all day?


damn, sometimes people are so fucking dumb, it's ridiculous!

One of my lawyers brings her 2 small doggies in. I love them.