I totally agree with what people are saying here! It's a great adventure for us to take the girls out to the pet stores. I did not know about Halloween Yappy Hour or else I would have tried to take the girls! However, we did go out there for a little while on Saturday to look around, and we found that Destiny gets too excited and pulls tooooo much and tends to bark sometimes at other dogs. So, we made a decision right then and there that we have to work harder with Destiny and she won't be going back to Pet Smart until we train her a little bit better, and then we will work on training her again in that type of environment! As some of you said before, some of us do try to be respectful to other humans and to other dogs! I'm also not trying to offend anybody, but I feel kind of offended when some one tries to lump all dog owners as being the same. I feel this way because we're not all the same. The majority of us here on PetTalk are the same because we all are devoted owners. However, there are a lot of dog owners out there who don't really put much time or money into their dogs. Just enough to get them fed if the dog is lucky. Please don't get those who are like that confused with those of us to do work with our dogs and who do treat them like they are part of our families, as all pets should be!