That is so awesome. I was going to offer the additional information that the Yale Law School library had a dog that students could 'check out', but it's already in there.
At my law school during finals, the Animal Law Society started a "Dog therapy day" where students are encouraged to bring their dogs to hang out in the lobby, and people can come play with them. It. Is. AWESOME.
One of my clients has a dog-friendly office policy. The CEO brought her seeing-eye dog to work, so everyone else gets to bring theirs in too as long as they behave.
As long as there's no allergic-to-cat/dog-saliva-contents people, or random customers/business partners/etc., or folk who just don't get along with dogs, that's fine.
Sadly, I fall into the latter group (I'm a cat person, I just don't understand dogs on s subconscious level), and the then-boss more often than not looking after a certain not-his-dog was one of the reasons I quit.
Apparently your office has a very confusing definition of "behave". Sorry about that. I work at the client in question: people who don't look after their dog at work are told to stop bringing the dog in. Dogs who don't co-operate with being looked after are not allowed back. Etc.
People interviewing for a position at the company are warned that the company has (big) dogs, in case this is a health or comfort problem. Even though the Great Dane doesn't come in much any more, he's one of the things prospects are advised about before deciding if they want the job, because dude, Great Dane. Eek.
To me it'd be very dependent on what he did; I'm mildly phobic of dogs due to almost getting bit by one that was going absolutely spare whilst tied to a post, then seeing someone behind me get bitten, when I was about six or so.
If it's just there in the office, that's fine. If it comes up to me but isn't pawing or being physical at me, and accepts when I ignore it and move away from it, that's fine. If it's more than that, not fine, basically.
Of course, I'm never going to work in the office in question, so it doesn't really matter.
The dogs are dogs, and they're used to the humans being okay with them, so they will almost always walk right up to a new person and sniff them, or nudge their hands to request petting. Any dog that's allowed into the office *will* be fine with you leaving and will ignore you, the only question is in how you move away. Hiding your hands, sudden jerky movements, staring at the dog, etc are all "I would like to PLAY" behaviours.
But the other side effect of this being a small office is that the owner is never far away, and everyone who brings their dog into the office knows to pay attention to it. There ARE a couple of people in the office who don't like dogs - but nobody with a phobia or a severe allergy, simply because that would make it extremely hard to work there - and the exec's seeing eye dog means there WILL BE a very large dog in the building from time to time, so it's not like all dogs can be banned forever.
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Date: 2011-12-02 05:48 pm (UTC)More puppies in the world is a Good Thing :)
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Date: 2011-12-02 07:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-12-02 10:13 pm (UTC)Sadly, I fall into the latter group (I'm a cat person, I just don't understand dogs on s subconscious level), and the then-boss more often than not looking after a certain not-his-dog was one of the reasons I quit.
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Date: 2011-12-03 01:18 am (UTC)People interviewing for a position at the company are warned that the company has (big) dogs, in case this is a health or comfort problem. Even though the Great Dane doesn't come in much any more, he's one of the things prospects are advised about before deciding if they want the job, because dude, Great Dane. Eek.
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Date: 2011-12-03 05:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-12-03 11:41 am (UTC)If it's just there in the office, that's fine. If it comes up to me but isn't pawing or being physical at me, and accepts when I ignore it and move away from it, that's fine. If it's more than that, not fine, basically.
Of course, I'm never going to work in the office in question, so it doesn't really matter.
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Date: 2011-12-03 02:06 pm (UTC)But the other side effect of this being a small office is that the owner is never far away, and everyone who brings their dog into the office knows to pay attention to it. There ARE a couple of people in the office who don't like dogs - but nobody with a phobia or a severe allergy, simply because that would make it extremely hard to work there - and the exec's seeing eye dog means there WILL BE a very large dog in the building from time to time, so it's not like all dogs can be banned forever.