LOL Cat......

[builder22]

If Sainsburys lose this case it will be a complete catastrophe for them.

might create bad feelins for some

 

[FBi7]

might create bad felines for some

FTFY

 

[FBi7]

At first I was thinking the calibre of BBC journalism has reached a new low, but then I thought is this just super-PC deliberate, like you can identify as being autistic without actually having the condition? Like Loretta and his right to have babies from Monty Python.

Turns out I was right, just shoddy journalism that's since been corrected.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I found the "assistance" peacock (from same article) more interesting

 

[Graetzbridge]

I think it is simple - animals are just not permitted in Sainsbury's. Their rules.

 

[Mysterae_]

I think it is simple - animals are just not permitted in Sainsbury's. Their rules.

Unless it's the meats isle.

 

[Werewolf]

I think it is simple - animals are just not permitted in Sainsbury's. Their rules.

As I understand it cats cannot be "service animals" in UK law, service animals are protected and you cannot ban them from premesis generally (hence why guide dogs, hearing dogs etc are allowed into supermarkets), but cats can be "emotional support animals" which as I understand it are not regulated, don't have to meet training standards and are not legally protected nor do stores have legal exemptions from normal health rules to allow them in.

I can see the fur flying a bit in the court as a judge tries to make a decision that will hopefully settle this a bit.

My gut feline about this is that if there is to be a legal exemption to allow "support animals" into stores then there may need to be an official register for them.

 

[gEd]

I'm sure the UK and the world has bigger (potentially catastrophic) problems to worry about than ONE guy wanting to take his cat into Sainsburys on his shoulder.

 

[uber soldat]

No ceiling cat / I can haz cheez burger? memes by page 2? Shame on you GD.

 

[Chojin]

Does the cat get a say in any of this?

 

[Kelt]

Does the cat get a say in any of this?

Nope...something's got its tongue...

 

[Minusorange]

Does the cat get a say in any of this?

It's not chained to his shoulder so I don't think it minds being carried around

 

[mrk]

Ameowsing story

 

[Hotwired]

I'm sure the UK and the world has bigger (potentially catastrophic) problems to worry about than ONE guy wanting to take his cat into Sainsburys on his shoulder.

That's why its a potential case involving one business and a guy with a cat not the entire UK or the world.

Of course the result of the potential case is clarity on arbitrary creatures as assistance animals and that will be beneficial no matter what way it falls. That's how law develops, someone has to take the **** out of a vague area of law, a case has to be brought to the courts and law is made out of the result so it won't be vague the second time around.

 

[Lopéz]

Sounds fur enough to me.