what possible benefit to the office working day could having dog inside afford?

Some people actually like having them about. You can get them on the NHS you know. Pups not pills That is the Times as well which beats the Daily Mail in terms of credibility so they blatantly can’t cause cancer. F. A. C. T.

a rolling around on the floor playing like a loon kinda way

Yeah, like a loon with no face, gushing claret all over my laminate floor. He’ll learn ya’. 😉

I had a moorhen that would continually study Nietzsche, miserable bastxrd. Needless to say it was also unwelcome within a productive office environment, still at least he didn’t give people cancer.

You are aware that seemingly normal people can suddenly turn and attack people out of character as well, right? In that case you better not work in any situation where you might be in stabbing distance of another person.

wow, yeah i am aware people can do that, very aware in fact…only this lunchtime i have a schizophrenic walk into my office holding a stanley knife (builders left it in garden… but dont let that ruin the dramatic effect) 🙂

i could tell you a story about a boy at school who appeared back in the classroom after P.E with his tie done up over an unbuttoned shirt, we asked him if he was ok.. no response… few more attempts, taken to nurse, taken to hospital, died 2 months later. brain tumour. true story… an example of how behaviour can change in an instant (was fine before and during P.E) because of a tumour hitting the wrong part of the brain. but that (like the story of my dog being put down) is all very depressing.

i’m a little concerned that some people haven’t learned not to take most of my posts too seriously… did the taping of the snakes not give you a clue as to my seriousness?

it can happen, it was very out of character, its extremely rare etc etc, but it’s true. i’m also allergic to cats.

back to the slightly lighter side of the thread….

no such thing as a budhist swan, did you learn nothing at school?! they will break your neck just for sneezing in the wrong direction.

and… if thats not evidence enough:

there was a cat in our cul-de-sac that we named dave who used to wait til cars would come down the road and then stroll right out in front of them, making sure to stay in the blindspots and weave around the wheels. (hilarious to watch from a bedroom window, not hilarious when you’re trying to park)

he was a true menace to society.

would you want him in your office, editing your emails, weaving around your feet as you carry hot drinks?

no such thing as a budhist swan, did you learn nothing at school?! they will break your neck jsut for sneezing in the wrong direction.

Everyone in the office now thinks I am weird for spitting coke on my monitor. I think they knew I was a bit weird anyway. MrNutt however makes me feel exceedingly well adjusted.

angeldust – Member
You are aware that seemingly normal people can suddenly turn and attack people out of character as well, right? In that case you better not work in any situation where you might be in stabbing distance of another person.

exactly! add Dogs which cause cancer and you’ve just supersized the threat level up seven additional terror points what with your Obese psycho knife wielding cancer hound allergen rampage multiplier!

Thanks for all the constructive and not-so-constructive comments they are all appreciated (even the guff about Buddhist swans – do you idiots not know they are all Christian fundamentalists and members of the KKK, hence the uniforms and the persecution suffered by the ugly duckling!).

I now agree that the idea of having a dog in the office probably wouldn’t work in here and am going back to my original plan of winning the lottery, quitting work and getting a dog or I’ll just have to wait for retirement 😐

why not buy a dog and let make-up companies use it during the 9-5 for research? you dont need to worry about it whilst your at work as it’ll be chilling having some lippy put on, getting its paws done and will come home smelling of beyonce’s latest juice.

Or do what I do – find a walker who takes them out for 2 hours during the day. Given that they get an hour’s walk from me every morning, plus another short walk in the evening, they get well-exercised.

Plus I’d recommend getting an adult dog from a rescue place – puppies do take a lot of work, and you really need to be around to socialise them.

I meant “jumper” you filthy-minded rapscallion!

If you want a laid back dog, just go and find a rescue greyhound. From what people have told me, all they want to do is sleep. Or get a basset hound. My sister’s basset just sleeps. All the time. And has lots of spare skin. And big ears.

lots of spare skin. And big ears.

trip hazard. end o’ thread

Ifjust sleeps. All the time. And has lots of spare skin. And big ears.

Sounds like my Mother-in-Law. No way she’d pass any kind of risk assesment.

Where I work there are 6 dogs on the premises most days! All belonging to different people. 2 labradors, 1 westie, 1 staffie, 1 jack russell, and 1 border. 1 labrador spends most of its time in the offices; the other stays in a worksop with its owner; the westie is in another workshop; the staffie stays in a car and gets walked 3 times a day; the jack russell lives in a van most of the day; and the border lives in a side-loader cab or under a workbench. Rural business on an eleven acre site so you don’t really notice them much.

(mostly) interesting debate. I wouldn’t be surprised if having dogs at work didn’t lead to an increase in productivity (see what I did there 😉 ).

Seriously though, I wouldn’t, the fact that it provides a focus for taking a bit of exercise throughout the day and the de-stressing results of patting / stroking a dog have got to be positive.

EDIT: Whaddya know – http://www.economist.com/node/16789216

They can still go mental and bite somebody

Yes. Dogs never really bothered me, until one ran up and sank his teeth into my leg while I was minding my own business. “He’s never done that before” was the owner’s response.
I’m always a bit wary now, so I wouldn’t be keen on working somewhere with dogs wandering about.

nickf – Member
Or do what I do – find a walker who takes them out for 2 hours during the day. Given that they get an hour’s walk from me every morning, plus another short walk in the evening, they get well-exercised.

At £10 an hour that is going to get expensive.

At £15/day it costs me about £3.5k per annum. Add in holiday cover (if we’re abroad), insurance, food, eaten shoes etc and it’s costing me not far short of £5k per year.

And I wouldn’t change a thing. I love my dogs more than almost anything, my wife and kids excepted.

The Vet said that it wasn’t uncommon for this to happen with dogs, esp labs.

Nutt i’d say what preceded this was pretty uncommon. Otherwise no one would have a dog.

My dog gets walked to work in the morning, sleeps in the van with 10 minutes out at 11 then a 40 minute walk at 1245 followed by more sleep and a 40 minute walk about 5. Gets in for 10minutes if it’s cold and i have a non-teaching period.

Some of the kids are convinced he’s the new school mascot.

I had a moorhen that would continually study Nietzsche

No one needs to study Nietzsche, just look into a dogs eyes when it’s taking a shit – it’s all you need to know…

Huxley lays under the desk and chews bones and things. When we have customers during the season he goes in his crate as he has a thing about people coming in through the workshop door but not the front door! A bit of a dopey dog really. No apple core is safe at lunchtime, drool isn’t a trip hazard on carpet though. There’s only 4 of us in the office though.

Where do all you Dog Bringing people work ? I have never worked in an office where I could do this.

We have mice everywhere at my work, what we need is a Cat, but they think I am joking.

It amazes me the vitriol aimed at hounds by the haters.

You’d think our society would be accepting of all creatures wouldn’t you – still, it’s not un-PC to hate dogs is it?

Were any of you around 30 odd years ago? Obviously some of you were – can no-one remember when it was acceptable for dogs to roam the streets? I don’t remember us all dying because of it.

If I ever have a business premises, then my dog will be more than welcome – anyone who doesn’t like it, won’t be.

I can see the sense of all the objections posted above, but personally I love it when a dog comes in to work (rarely). A calm, friendly, well-behaved dog just relaxes and cheers me up. Obviously if there are allergies it couldn’t happen.

I often take my dog Ronnie, to work with me. He’s known as the office dog now. Visitors come into my office and make a fuss of him then say “Oh hi, Coolhandluke, I only popped in to see Ronnie!”

He’s very quiet, doesn’t hassle anyone and is very well behaved

Terry come to the pub for Friday drinks. Mind he gets more rubs from pretty girls and i’d never get to put my head in their laps.

I used to work for the civil service and my dog came to work with me. Before I bought a dog I spoke to my boss and the 3 other people in my office. All were ok with it so long as it was well behaved. I bought a pre-trained lab and she was brilliant. She’d sleep under my desk most of the day, and come out for a stroke every now and again. Since I left work she’s been missed from the office. To the point that my mate who still works there mentioned that he could pick her up on the way past…

I seem to be one of the few here who does actually bring my dog to work. Most days she’s happy in my office (which I don’t share – who wants to sit in a scrotty old Portakabin in the workshop when there’s plenty of proper posh office space)? We’ve a large yard where she gets to play with ballonastring a fair bit during the day, and gets a proper walk every morning. If I’m out and about, sometimes she comes with me, sometimes not – depends on the customer I’m seeing, how long she’d have to spend in the car/van/lorry, and the premeses I’m visiting. She seems a contended little soul.
When she was a tiny puppy, she was prone to making a noise when I was on the ‘phone, meaning I often had to make calls from the workshop instead, but she’s pretty much grown out of that, and she’s never really been a chewer (one invoice as far as I can remember).
I do have to be aware that not everybody at work likes her, and can act appropriately around her, so sometimes have to carry her through the other offices to get outside, just to make sure she causes no one any greif, but it’s just being a little sensible really.
We simply couldn’t have a dog if she couldn’t come along with me as we both work fairly long hours, so it’s needs must.

My local banned dogs as another dog owner let his mastiff on the furniture regularly 🙄 A shame really as my last dog liked a half of beer at the pub (more difficult now as big ashtrays are no longer available). She once got given a half of old peculier all at once by a mate late in a session. Drunken dalmatian went upstairs when we got home to say hello to the sleeping kids (she never ever went upstairs normally)!

our Border Collie would go nuts in a office – all those people to round up and/or throw a ball…

I do a 15 min walk as soon as I get up, we play ball as I get ready for work, we have an ace dog walker who takes her out from 11.30 (ish) until 6pm sometimes, she gets between one and three walks in with a bunch of other dogs, all for £8 a day. sometimes she is back in a couple hours, sometimes its five or six hours. our dog walker is ace 🙂

I then walk her before bed. weekends I do the walks/frisbee and ball throwing

why would I take her to the office? get a good dog walker…

teaching her to run with the mountain bikes now 🙂 now thats a plan…

I work from home so the situation is the other way round for me. The dog has never had a problem with me making a noise on the phone or cluttering up the sofa at lunchtime so I think the arrangement works quite well.