Honestly, I don't think we have ever taken ours anywhere except into Tractor Supply or the other pet stores I mentioned earlier and one particular other non-food retail store that my friend is the manager of and she has from time to time had one of her dogs up there between the vet clinic and going home for the day. But as I said before I don't have a huge issue with them being in public if they are well behaved and quiet. But, my least favorite place to see one that is just someone's pet is in a restaurant or grocery store.

I remember being in the Subway on the bypass in Andalusia one day when they were in the space that Tropical Smoothie is now and a family came in and the mom was carrying a lap dog of some kind and I was waiting for someone working in there to say something about her needing to take it back outside but no one ever did. I was rather surprised.

We don't allow ours to jump up on us much less other people and part of the training they have had is to keep their feet on the ground altogether because we had small grandkids that we didn't want scratched.

But, I would hate to be wound so tight as some of you guys are when seeing a dog out in public unless you had a traumatic experience with a dog at some point. But, I have known kids who have been bitten by dogs that don't have such a negative reaction to dogs as some of y'all do.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.---Winnie the Pooh