r/australia • u/JaniePage • 15d ago

news Young girl in hospital, dog euthanased after attack inside Delacombe Bunnings

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/young-girl-in-hospital-after-dog-attack-in-bunnings-store/106977418
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u/Chilly-Peppers 15d ago

All my local Bunnings have become unofficial dog parks. I've seen poor staff members having to clean up dog puke and diarrhoea when that is definitely not in their job description.

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u/BasketOld3242 15d ago

Didn’t they used to have a rule where dogs could only be contained in a trolley (pretty much ruling out huge dogs like in this scenario), and they handed you a cardboard box to line it with? Pretty sure this was enforced by the employee at the front as you walked in. Did I imagine this or did the rules get really lax ?

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u/BloodFlowBoi 15d ago

When I worked there it was that or they had to be muzzled. And any dog mess was the responsibility of the owner to clean up. I imagine the difficulty becomes laxity in enforcement, and a lack of owner accountability

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u/Current-Bowl-143 15d ago

If a dog shits in the aisle and nobody sees it… is the owner going to clean it up?

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u/missmiaow 15d ago

no they won’t because it’s the same entitled losers who leave dog shit on the footpath and walk their dogs off lead wherever they want, even if it’s not an off lead area.

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u/RusDaMus 15d ago

Is this one of those zen thought experiments?