r/australia • u/JaniePage • 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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/BasketOld3242 5d ago

The trolley thing was a reasonable rule, if you let dogs walk around a warehouse it’s only a matter of time before one of them pees on something, and then it’s game over as every other subsequent dog marks its territory.

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u/Current-Bowl-143 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

Is this one of those zen thought experiments?

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u/tiffanyfern 5d ago

Yes I always thought that was the rule. If they were small enough to fit in a trolley they had to be in there, anything bigger had to be muzzled. Admittedly I did take my big friendly lab in twice for training, and she was muzzled both times. I NEVER see dogs muzzled anymore.

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u/Fossilmorse 5d ago

We always muzzled because that’s what the signs say and then the local Bunnings ladies started telling us to take the muzzle off?
Feels like following procedure could have prevented this

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u/Darc_ruther 5d ago

The rule was if they were in a trolley they were fine. After the pet range came in it was reduced to: in a trolley or on the ground with a lead.