Posted on 02/24/2006 2:12:05 PM PST by freepatriot32
I used to hang-out at a bar in Chicago where the owner's guard dog (a big-a** German Shepherd) would drink out of your beer if you left it unattended while visiting the bathroom.
Friend you might want to use the spell feature graciously supplied by FR before posting.....
The world has gone nuts. I am convinced of it.
Most places I went to were much more accomodating to dogs than to children. Dogs were expected to be in full control, and I rarely even noticed one other than when coming or going unless I looked under a table. Children on the other hand...no one really expected them to be able to behave at all times.
Who's going to remove the fecal coliform bacteria from the seat after the dog gets finished rubbing his butt on it?
My kinda dog!
Thanks for clarifying that. That was my first question - is it a mandate or repeal of a regulation. If knees are gonna jerk, they should at least jerk from reliable data.
And there are plenty of businesses here who keep dogs in their offices also.
If I understand the article correctly: it is going to allow dogs on the patios only and not require that they be allowed. Sounds like it is up to the owner to me. Just removing the ordinance preventing the activity.
That's not how I read this...I read this that if an establishment wants to allow dogs, they can...I don't think they'll be forced to. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Avoiding comment on whether this suggestion is right or wrong, I generally disagree with making decisions based on what's happening in Europe.
Couldn't agree more!!
Dogs outdoors at restaurants is illegal in Florida? Since when?
The law prohibiting dogs to be with their owners outdoors at restaurants is ignored here in Miami Beach. In fact, quite the opposite: Restaurants definitely do /not/ want to have an anti-dog reputation.
Of course, if that dog lights up a cigarette outdoors...
Why do so many assume that because something is done in Europe, we should do it here:
IN EUROPE:
The drinking age is 16, but the driving age is 18
A man of 30 having sex with a 16 year old is accepted
Prostitution is legal
Marijuana and hash are sold at drive through windows (Venlo, NL)
Nuclear power plants supply a far larger percentage of the electrical requirements
Female bathroom attendents are often stationed in men's bathrooms
Cousins who marry can be heads of states (Not Arkansas)
Prostitutes are stationed in glass booths on public display for all to see (including minors)
They drive Citroens
They eat horses, snails and rodents (rabbits).
They make wine by stomping grapes with their feet (Port)
And they allow their dogs to dine at restaurants!
The proper solution is obvious: allow the owners of restaurants to decide if they will permit the clients to enter with their pets or to smoke, or even to permit some clients to smoke and enter with their pets but to exclude others.
I understand that in the US it is perhaps necessary to have laws forcing certain owners to permit black people to enter their establishments, but that restriction is obvious. These other things, telling people where they may smoke, or telling people where they may take their pets, why, precisely, is this the business of the state at all?
It does not seem very free to have such rules on everything anyone wishes to do with his restaurant.
Who's going to remove the fecal coliform bacteria from the seat after the dog gets finished rubbing his butt on it?
You eat off of seats in restaurants?
Listen to the dawg haters howl - he peed on me! Shoot him!!
Never met a dawg hater who didn't make me want to hurl chunks - worst hard on cranks you can find.
Restaurant dog areas are common in a lot of states.
If you get any dog coliform on your tushy at a restaurant don't worry - the human carnivora flora in dirty human intestines usually wipes it out - if your beer farts don't fry it first that is.
I demands mah rights to dine in the dog area and kick up a stink! Dey gots woims ya know.....
What I want to know is who is going to remove the fecal bacteria from the seat after you are finished rubbing your nasty streptococcal behind all over it?
Now that was entertaining. Happy Friday to you!
Wait till the gang bangers show up with their pit bulls and fifi at the next table becomes an entre...
You cant smoke a Camel but you can bring your Pit Bull to lunch. Makes sense to someone I guess. Nothing like eating lunch and stepping in dog doo on the way out.
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