Malicious gossip!
A very good friend called my mobile to ask if there was any truth in the story that Car Boots Cornwall had refused to allow a ‘guide dog and it’s blind owner’ permission to come into one of our Car Boots Sales. He had read on Facebook that someone had written in the gossip column of some local newspaper called Newquay Voice that we had refused a blind person and their guide dog entrance. I would have thought that the Newquay Voice should have had the courtesy to have advised us that they were going to print such a scurrilous accusation in their paper. Circulation figures of the paper are bad enough but to resort to taking your readers accusation as ‘nothing but the truth’ is offensive.

The claim, or accusation is totally without truth and stems from the fact that there is a ‘NO DOGS allowed’ into the selling areas policy at Mitchell and Newquay where several women dogs owners became fowl (foul) mouthed and offensive and threatening because they did not like us enforcing exactly what the absolute majority of our customers wanted ‘DOGS BANNED FROM CAR BOOT SALES!

So some mithering dog owner has taken it a stage further and written to the Voice to make her ridiculous claim to gain us bad publicity.

Now then, let’s look at what is being claimed. We refused to allow ‘a guide dog and its blind owner admission’? I cannot think of any likelihood of a blind person and their dog visiting our Car Boot Sales alone without a friend or a carer to accompany them around the stalls to describe the scene and I have checked with all of our teams to see if they remember such an incident.
However, there are far too many hazards for me and our Public Liability Insurers to contemplate allowing a blind person and guide dog alone without a carer.

I value the business that we have built up over 26 years and I value the opinions of the huge majority of people who do not like dogs at their Car Boot Sales, I am a listening person and they have asked me to ban dogs in certain locations and I have carried out their wishes! Amen!

If you as a dog owner are offended by the majority decision then respectfully “Go somewhere else” but please don’t bother writing a whole load of bollocks in the newspapers. To the person who actually stooped that low “I hope the crutch rots on your underwear and you fall through and breaks your legs and yer bloody neck” Metaphorically speaking of course! Take a reality check, butt face! FFS!!