This was terrible in a funny but shouldn't be way. Went to a pub quiz on Monday night, a lady walked in with a guide dog which was a surprisingly tufty retriever cross (I thought they were supposed to be labs?). She took the guide handle off it and it lay down and dozed for a while.
Some time later she got up to leave, and picked up the guide handle. Dog promptly wandered off and hid under a table full of pub quizzers, while she called it slightly forlornly. It didn't come out for a couple of minutes, I think.
Thing is, because it was a guide dog, I think everyone had that thing of 'I'm not supposed to touch it or anything', so just looked REALLY awkward and silently shouted at the dog to get its stuff together.