It doesn't bother me at all.
Cameron Watson PLS, post: 454773, member: 11407 wrote: Contradiction in terms.
Or are all dogs domesticated wolves? (I know what you meant. I was just being a smart-ass)
I haven't seen dogs in restaurants. Maybe they aren't allowed here. I've only seen them in PetSmart, but that store encourages people to bring them in and has cleanup stations with cleanser and paper towels and bags for pick-up.
Last year I went a visited my father. He had decided to retire in the town he grew up in and it is a miserably poor place called Kingwood, WV. I've no idea what compelled him to retire in a place like that but he did and when I got up there after a long drive from Georgia he wanted to go to Shoneys. Now I'm not a fan of buffets as I generally don't like that kind of food and I believe it promotes gluttony however, I went because pops wanted to go.
So we are sitting there and in walks a ginormous fat woman with her "seeing eye dog" it was a chihuahua on a leash and the little dog had a red "seeing eye dog" vest on.
Now it was apparent that the woman wasn't blind but she was putting up a show anyway. Well she went to the food bar with her dining partner and she had the little "seeing eye dog" cradled in her arm while she was piling her plate with chicken wings and kielbasa. While she was up there the mongrel had a sneezing fit. Mind you the woman was cradling the dog and because of that it was food level and sneezing all over the food while she was cooing after it.
Service dog my arse! So I mentioned it to the manager and as expected he said it was a "service animal" and he had to let it in and he just could not grasp the idea of tainted food from the animal sneezing all over a good part of it.
Needless to say I departed that place quickly.
I think I'd rather have a well behaved cat or dog in a restaurant than any misbehaving child.
John, post: 454786, member: 791 wrote: I think I'd rather have a well behaved cat or dog in a restaurant than any misbehaving child.
I once had a wise man tell me not to worry so much about my kids behavior at restaurants when they were younger because 1) 90% of the people in the restaurant have had young children and understand and 2) the other 10% can go #*$@ themselves. Now people who act as though their dog is the same as a child, well....
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Paul D, post: 454791, member: 323 wrote: I once had a wise man tell me not to worry so much about my kids behavior at restaurants when they were younger because 1) 90% of the people in the restaurant have had young children and understand and 2) the other 10% can go #*$@ themselves. Now people who act as though their dog is the same as a child, well....
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I've never seen a kid lick his balls or eat a turd or try to lick you after doing so, and yet a lot of people expect others to tolerate their animals.
I actually like dogs and have a fairly well behaved pit bull and boxer in the house now but I don't dare take them to restaurants and such.
Just A. Surveyor, post: 454785, member: 12855 wrote: miserably poor place called Kingwood, WV
Almost bought 150 acres in Preston County back before the recession as a hunting camp/retirement place. There is some nice grouse hunting out there, and it was the home of a pretty famous writer (at least amongst upland hunters) & bird dog breeder
Just A. Surveyor, post: 454792, member: 12855 wrote: I've never seen a kid lick his balls or eat a turd or try to lick you after doing so, and yet a lot of people expect others to tolerate their animals.
I actually like dogs and have a fairly well behaved pit bull and boxer in the house now but I don't dare take them to restaurants and such.
I have a poorly behaved dog and do generally like dogs. In restaurants, no. I was in Bar Harbor this summer and went to a place that apparently accepted dogs, it was weird, though the dogs in question were quite well behaved. I don't like my own dog around when I am eating, let alone some unknown quantity. This is what gets me, dogs are dogs, they ARE NOT people. To equate them is a pet (ha!) peeve of mine.
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James Fleming, post: 454797, member: 136 wrote: Almost bought 150 acres in Preston County back before the recession as a hunting camp/retirement place. There is some nice grouse hunting out there, and it was the home of a pretty famous writer (at least amongst upland hunters) & bird dog breeder
Preston County is where he is and folks can't grasp how poor that area is. Never hunted the area but he does. Some of his cousins, I guess my second cousins have several hundred acres up there that he hunts just a stones throw from Masontown.
Paul D, post: 454799, member: 323 wrote: dogs are dogs, they ARE NOT people. To equate them is a pet (ha!) peeve of mine.
I suspect there are two types of take your dog to a restaurant people:
1. Dog as "baby substitute or fashion accessory" people.
2. Dog as "they've been bred as our companions for over 10,000 years and we have a symbiotic relationship" people
I've no problem with the second bringing their dogs places in public as their dogs are usually impeccably well behaved, because they understand them, and treat them as, dogs. Baby substitute dogs are usually ill behaved as the failure to treat the dog as a dog does it a disservice.
Apparently, canine flatulence is silent because they don't have buttocks.
James Fleming, post: 454797, member: 136 wrote: Almost bought 150 acres in Preston County back before the recession as a hunting camp/retirement place. There is some nice grouse hunting out there, and it was the home of a pretty famous writer (at least amongst upland hunters) & bird dog breeder
I had a couple of English Pointers but I was not able to hunt them as much as needed and well.......my wife made pets out of them and ruined them.
Richard Imrie, post: 454812, member: 11256 wrote: Apparently, canine flatulence is silent because they don't have buttocks.
And the most god awful smelling farts I might add.
Just A. Surveyor, post: 454814, member: 12855 wrote: And the most god awful smelling farts I might add.
And hence not the ambiance you want wafting over as you nibble delicately on a Bruschetta.
Call me a snob but, when dining out, I do my best to not tolerate a wide variety of other humans and all animals. Critters do not belong inside places of human habitation.
Hijack..............................too many natives of nearby Pittsburg pronounce it as Picksburg. Some say this goes back to its early days when coal mining was a significant segment of the local economy.
My wife and I stayed in a cabin just south of McCaysville back in 2009. The people we met there were very friendly! We didn't ride the train though.
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I've met some people at a bar for a couple weeks now and the place allows dogs. Or at least 1 dog, the owner or bartender, I think. Anyway, my first time there the animal stopped by our table and started taking a piss. Another guy in my group swatted it to get it to stop but it was still pretty gross.
I wouldn't tolerate animals in a regular restaurant but a bar seems a little different. But I dunno, maybe it's not different at all.
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My Yellow Lab looks just like that...and he will fetch me just about anything.
He does know to get a beer, but he doesn't know the difference between beer and soda and can't open the fridge, which limits the usefulness of that particular command.
