Home Depot's Gone To The Dogs

So apparently there was a big hub-ub a few weeks ago about a Home Depot greeter being bitten by a dog...never really seen a Home Depot greeter myself before, at least not as frequently as Wal-Mart greeters, but anyway, I thought I'd post these two pictures from January 17th 2010.  There is clearly a dog in the store, and Home Depot staff seem to have no problem with it, and yer on their door it clearly shows NO PETS ALLWOED.  So what's the big deal in the news that this is a "new" ban on animals in the store?  According to this, they've always been banned!