Proposed law would let Hawaiians dine with pets

AP ^ | Wednesday, February 18, 2004

[presidio9]

Cpl. Rita Levergood and her husband disagree whether four-legged members of their family should be able to join them out to dinner. The state, however, is clear: It's against the law.

A state senator's proposal going before a Department of Health committee this week would make it easier for animal lovers like Levergood to dine out with the pets they say are like family.

[doberville]

Look, I've got children - grandchildren, too. Children are messy, noisy and unreasonable. So, their 'eating out' was largly confinded to child-friendly, child oriented chains until they developed manners.

The restaurants in Paris are DINING establishments. It is understood by all that young children do not enhance the dining experience. End of subject.

OTOH, in the US, they have not mastered that concept. Rude, unmannerly, uncontrolled and unmanagable human progeny are EVERYWHERE - even in the most expensive of restaurants. I resent them intruding into ADULT territory, unasked and unwanted. Sorry.

Do you really believe that your toddler is that much CLEANER than your dog?

[AuntB]

Swell. As if it's not enough to put up with dumb waiters, rude customers and their snot nosed kids, we get their animals, too.

Hmmmmm...Most marriages happen because of a dinner date, next someone will want to marry their pets.......and we thought San Francisco was bad. People are scaring me now.

[AuntB]

"that drools steadily if she watches someone eat. The egg white slime reaches 7 or 8" at times."

I think that description has permanently destroyed my appetite.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In Massachusetts, we can marry our pets.

[kabar]

Allowing pets into restaurants is prevalent throughout Europe. It is even more popular in Germany than France. I hope the practice expands from Hawaii to the rest of the country.

[Jeff Gordon]

Dining with pets in public resturants is common in Europe.

(so what)

[ladylib]

I had a Shih Tzu named Taffy. She was a wonderful animal, but a little aggressive at the dinner table.

[MarkDel]

Doberville,

Yes, but does a noisy 5-year old bite or maul anyone?

Look, how about if I brought my incredibly well trained 1000-pound Gorilla with me into the restuarant and sat him down next to your table. He's never attacked anyone, but let's say for whatever reason, he takes a dislike to you and begins to growl at you in a menacing fashion. How do you suppose that would enhance your dining experience? Well, that's what has happened to me in the past when some inconsiderate jerk brings their dog into a public area like a restaurant. And the really goofy part is that if your dog attacked me and I shot and killed it, you and others would be screaming to send me to prison.

This is amazing...this thread is truly depressing. I thought only leftists were inconsiderate enough to do something like bring a dog into a public restaurant. What's next, you guys gonna tell me that the lawsuits against the cigarette companies made sense, or that gun owners should be sued for selling guns to murderers...so I can't smoke in a bar, but you can bring your dog...yeah, that makes sense.

[My Dog Likes Me]

Excellent post.
You can't smoke, but you can bring your dog into a bar? That's insane.

When I lived in Germany, it was common to see dogs in neighborhood taverns. They were locals, and the dogs were well-behaved (no nasty pitbulls with equally-crazed people on the other end of the leash). But it was still weird.

My little dog doesn't like to dine out of the house, anyways. She thinks I'm taking her to the vet and gets hysterical if we approach the station wagon!

[MarkDel]

My Dog Likes Me,

I'll give you another great example of how crazy this "animal business" is going. In San Francisco, a person can buy a ticket for his dog and sit him in a seat next to you at a baseball game!!! So I have to sit there and smell this ANIMAL and let him drool right next to me while I'm trying to enjoy a game, maybe eat some hot dogs, drink a beer, etc...

Like I said, the world is becoming a bad Monty Python skit...

[Simcha7]

Our Shih Tzu is Very Cute and also Very Smart!

She sits on her dinning room chair like a little Lady and will not make a sound.

She does not eat her food at the table, because we have a special place mat for her and her own dishes, plates, bowls etc.

She eats with us in the dinning room, and she will sit and wait for seconds.

On the rare occasion she will yodel a little or make a spitting sound followed by a sneeze to let us know that we are too slow to respond to her needs!

She is a real Character!

Yesterday, I forgot to write in my post that the waitress brought to our table a nice glass bowl of water with ice cubes in it for our little girl.

We put her on the bench type seat in the booth we were sitting in, she quietly drank her water and rested, then she had a burger without the bun!

Everybody who meets her falls in love with her immediately, she is that kind of dog.

Oy Vey...did I say "Dog", she does not think she is a Dog, she thinks that she is a child.

She gets the BEST of everything we can give her.

[ladylib]

My dog was a brat and very manipulative, but she was a lot of fun too.

I actually had a professional trainer come to the house to try to train her. She wanted nothing to do with him or his training methods. He said she was the only dog he couldn't train and he was in the business for years. She just refused to cooperate with him, and he got a little nasty so I had to ask him to leave.

My biggest mistake was teaching her to bark. When I first got her I wondered why she never barked. I had to actually teach her to bark when she wanted something, and after that, she never shut up.