A Harris, post: 454755, member: 81 wrote: When I was growing up in rural NE Texas, many eating places of today, even the more notable ones of today were at that time open door places and critters came and went and never got near people or food, they knew their place.
The best burgers around were at the livestock auctions.
These days, I do not go to a zoo, feed lot or rodeo grounds to eat.
Never say anything when the place has dogs or other critters wadering around, I simply leave and go somewhere else.
I still love to catch lunch at the sale barns around here. Amazing food!
the places that I go that are pet friendly are only for outdoor seating areas. I've never seen one misbehave or take a dump while I was eating nearby, but I can see where that would be pretty gross. I guess I'm just lucky.
I'm 99% with you on this one.
I despise people that bring their animals into restaurants and grocery stores. I totally get it - they are part of your family, maybe your best friend.
However many of us have dogs as part of our families. We don't all go around abusing people's patience.
Most everybody that does this acts like they have a special dog that is so well trained that they have a unique right to walk them through the store.
I take my dog everywhere except work and into stores.
He's a pretty smart dog and fairly well behaved.
I did once watch someone else's dog walk up to my brother and piss on his leg.
Mind you this was a domesticated wolf, so he had a height and volume advantage over most dogs.
Also keep in mind that my brother was wearing shorts and flip/flops.
I about rolled on the ground laughing. You don't get the privilege of seeing that every day
Every year for the past 6 years I've transited through LAX to get to England and back. I always see people with lap-dogs in the terminal which I find strange, and I'm sure I've seen them at the terminal gate areas. Presumably LAX terminals mix domestic and international flights as I've never seen a dog on the plane. Maybe I've got it wrong.
imaudigger, post: 454770, member: 7286 wrote: domesticated wolf
Contradiction in terms.
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.
