I’ve never ever seen a dog lick something in a grocery store….that’s gross, I would not lick anything in a grocery store. Definitely not healthy for a dog either. People walking in with what have you on their shoes….good lord.

"The charm of Freeport". Uh huh. The charm of overpriced retail stores (even the outlets) and restaurants.

Yeah...but the best thing you can do is just go at night or early in the morning, if possible. Less people, less dogs, just peace and quiet.

It'll probably get worse come summer. Even though people crack open windows, they'll be taking aaaaaall the dogs into the stores for a leg stretch or exercise or whathaveyou.

If you're looking for pure bred dogs, then you should expect the price to be high. It's kind of normal.

No thanks, I'll just take the death that's coming this way 🤣

Probably, but LLB practically owns the town at this point and can get anything they want.

Get Nimby BS outta here

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From the article...

"Hamlin noted the project is part of the town’s effort to increase housing, but the units will not be considered affordable. "

They're trying to turn Maine into Massachusetts with 500k 2 bedroom "luxury" condos. F that. Don't fall for this bullshit... its just going to attract remote workers and wealthy speculators. If it was for workforce housing it'd be a different story.

You think the dogs are bad, start looking at the people!

100% stop trying to turn Northern New England into Massachusetts!

I can understand employees not wanting to deal with customers breaking the law.

It just seems really unsanitary for a dog to be walking around a grocery store, shedding hair and licking things. For some people it could be beyond gross if they're allergic to dogs.

We are fucked. This is reality and people moving to Maine. I’m in Topsham 👋🏻

It has been national news for days. I don't understand why folks such as yourself say it's barely reported on when that's 100% bullshit.

Not the best location and ugly af. Also, not going to be affordable for normal people. I'd settle for two of the three being fixed before construction starts, but we all know it won't be.

Dogs in stores really aren't uncommon in Maine, at least in the case of grocery stores, convenience stores and the like. Anything that's not a pet store, essentially.

Sure, there's a law against it, but it's not enforced (depends on the store and the manager(s) or owners, of course). This is because no one gets paid enough to even give a single iota of a shit. Now, if the dog starts pissing and shitting on the floor...then they might start to care. But an untrained dog that isn't eating every food in sight and isn't letting everything loose and isn't directly attacking customers doesn't pose much of a risk.

That link looks like a lot of paper work to read

On it

Well that sucks because the winds this week are coming from the southwest.

They’ll stop at nothing to dismiss the threat of catastrophic climate change.

> will go down as one of the most devastating events in the US ever

Press X to doubt. According to the air testing results in your link, all the actually harmful chemicals (everything except oxygen) is down below the screening levels and most are already at zero.

So far as I can tell, we are talking about a few square kilometers of agricultural Ohio. Really can't think of anything in U.S. history that has caused more damage than that?

sign of the times

Mine is from Labs Landing in NY. My vet has asked for information to share with others as they have said she is literally the best lab they have ever seen in terms of temperament and health. She is a blocky lab, which is the look we like and is an awesome dog. Loves outdoors, but is also fine with lazy house days.

Toxic death cloud train derailment, two UFOs down, an ambiguous spy balloon. I'm a little concerned

How about we stop fighting literally everyone trying to build more housing.