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Originally Posted by Wormius
That is a difficult conversation. I hate office dogs, but everyone else adores them. Even suggesting you don’t want some dog going into your office and drooling over stuff seems like a non-starter. At least it seems that dogs are decently at reading body language soon if you don’t bend over and start petting them and talking gibberish.
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Nope, thats perfectly understandable. If you dont want the dog, we put him in the other office during our appointment, it happens all the time. He's got a little bed in there and everything.
Also he's a very small dog, he doesnt drool, he's hypoallergenic and he doesnt shed.
This is important, because otherwise I'm 100% with you. I dont want to be attacked by some giant slobbery shedding beast either. I've got other things to do with my day and I dont want all my clothes covered in dog hair.
And I dont want people coming into my office with dog allergies to be uncomfortable, so him being hypoallergenic and not shedding is important.
Most of the time he sleeps at my feet. I will acknowledge that initially he will try and lick your face, but he's like 25 pounds. If you want to keep him down you can and after like 3 minutes he calms down and just lies down.
But like I said. Brutal honesty. I've had people come in and "I dont like dogs."
Cool. I lock him in the other room, we conduct our business and when we're done I let him out.
Thats not difficult. I'm okay with that.