Could just ask them to escort you or something, tell them you want to buy one of the toys they sell.
Also some people are assholes, we may know that this little kitty is a good girl who wouldn't use the park as a litterbox but what about children, cunts or even those with mental issues? we run into these problems with only humans, this world has people who might have certain proclivities that make them ill suited for certain activities or places.
My grandmother used to work as a nurse at a mental health clinic kind of place I don't entirely remember it's been a few years, but she would escort some of the people around town when they needed stuff and one woman she had once squatted in the middle of a grocery store and shit all over the floor, left, got back in the car and wanted to go back to her home, just casually like nothing was wrong at all. I forget what problem she had but all my grandmothers clients were about that level of insane, one even tried killing her, multiple times.