General Chat

But for a real cuddle you need a bigger dog Maggie :-)

If I ever got a dog, I'd get something like a Yorkshire Terrier. It has a proper snout, and used to have a proper job , so it would be trained like a 'real' dog, but also be small enough to cuddlewithout crushing me, and not take up too much of the bed!!

Island I'd say you are more dog-friendly when it comes to eating establishments for sure.
Names...handbag dogs aren't "real" dogs they're just live toys
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Many, many more places are now dog-friendly compared to 20 years or so ago. We like to sit outside if possible, and the weather is OK, but our mutts have always been well behaved, although our previous one did have a tendency to get in the way! We generally go to cafes or pubs, for anything 'posher' we wouldn't take the hound :-)

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It sure where the ‘upscale restaurant’ comment came from but wouldn’t that be one where they let ‘handbag’ dogs in?

I imagine dog owners wouldn't want to be taking their dogs to a 'white linen and quiet music' restaurant anyway as, I guess, it would be a more formal occasion.
We must be more dog friendly here in the UK Caroline as we are not limited to 'pubs in the countryside and little cafes' to find our canine companions welcome.

"Not sure what an 'upscale restaurant' is or why it is different to a normal one with regards to the dog question."

JustGinnie....I would say a pub in the countryside or a little cafe might very well accept well-trained dogs or children.....an upscale restaurant and I can't be the only person to say that, would be more of your typical white linen tablecloths and quiet music in the background type of place where I wouldn't expect to find dogs or children :-)

We stayed in a dog friendly hotel (we don’t have a dog). The restaurant had a separate area for people with their dogs. It seems the best idea really not all dogs are people friendly, in fact in the bar of the same restaurant in the hotel, walking to an empty table a fairly large dog suddenly growled and leapt out at me, luckily it was on a lead I have no doubt that it would have attacked me if it had been able to reach. I didn)t feel a dog with that sort of temperament should be in a restaurant. On the other hand step granddaughter has a cockerpoo who is very well trained once she has her lead and harness on and is taken into a restaurant she just lays under the table and doesn’t move. Off the lead and out of the harness she is very lively.

We don't have a dog, but do sometimes have a short break in a dog-friendly hotel. Dogs are allowed in the bar when food is served but there is a dog free area if people wish to eat there.

In all our time there, have never seen a badly behaved dog, they just lie down quietly. I have, however, seen many badly behaved children running riot.

Andy

That's true ZZzzz

One thing I don't like to see in a restaurant, is people, having finished eating what they want from their plate, allowing the dog to eat the rest FROM THE PLATE !!!!!! I might feed my dog little titbits by hand while she is under the table, but licking plates clean is a definite no no

Kentishmaid, I think the same with children in shopping trolleys where the food goes, could be dog poo on their shoes.

On one particular holiday our dog did the same Island. She steered us towards the same café every time we went into town, possibly because they gave all their doggy visitors home made treats

Oh yeah! My dog used to stop at his favourite cafe and look longingly at the door, even when we were just passing. He was good as gold on the floor and would let us know if he needed to go outside.
We never put him up on a seat but have to say if that isn't ok why do some people think it's ok to put their feet up on train and bus seats? As Kentishmaid says, they could have stepped in dog poo, dogs tend not to do that.

I don't get why some think it's ok for service dogs so presumably not others? The deal is usually 'well behaved dogs'.

I must agree with KentishMaid, I have seen more unruly children in food pubs and cafes that I have unruly dogs. Not sure what an 'upscale restaurant' is or why it is different to a normal one with regards to the dog question.

ZZzzz I personally wouldn't sit on the floor any more than my dog would be allowed to sit on a chair. :-)

I agree about some children too. Some parents don’t seem to feel the need to check their children’s behaviour when their in restaurants. Mr Owl used to work in a pub and on one occasion he witnessed a child taking crisps out a packet, dropping them on the floor and tramping them into the carpet. He watched the child do this three times without the parents saying a word before he spoke to them. The parents claimed not to have noticed.

I must say I have seen some children in restaurants that need restraining, climbing over furniture and not being expected to sit at the table while others are eating. They have probably stepped in dog poo on the way in and spread it everywhere !!!

Dogs should only be on the floor in any public place, and dogs in pubs that serve food is one thing but in a more upscale restaurant is not good.

Dog friendly restaurant etc is good as long as the human(s) with it sit on the floor.

The couple who had written it phoned the restaurant several times asking them to take the review down either because it was written in jest or because they realised how stupid they looked. Each time the restaurant explained to them that as they wrote it they would have to remove it.

I agree with dogs sitting on the floor not the furniture but have always found it odd allowing dogs into restaurants except of course for service dogs.