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Pets are allowed...children are not...yeah, that pretty much sums up the French.

I'll make a deal with you dog owners. You guys are allowed to bring your dog wherever you like, legally, but the first time it tries to bite me or my children, I am legally allowed to whip out my Glock and blow off its freaking head...deal?

I'm not even going to attempt to argue hygeine issues, privacy issues or anything else that should be painfully obvious to you people, because if I have learned anything at all over the years, it's that the only people more unreasonable than Environmentalists are extreme Animal lovers, so I know attempts at rational discussion are pointless.

When I hear that you can bring a dog into a public place, but not a human child...all I can think of is that it sounds like a Monty Python skit instead of reality.

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?

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.