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Dogs in Restaurants
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Tawny | Report | 4 Aug 2021 14:21 |
A restaurant in Portsmouth found themselves with a one star review on trip advisor apparently written by a dog. The review was complaining that although the restaurant is dog friendly and allows any dog inside the dog in question was made to sit on the floor instead of being allowed on the furniture. |
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LaGooner | Report | 4 Aug 2021 14:24 |
Yuck on all counts. Edit.. not service dogs |
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nameslessone | Report | 4 Aug 2021 14:36 |
I hope it was written in jest. |
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JustGinnie | Report | 4 Aug 2021 14:51 |
I have no problem with well trained dogs being allowed in cafes or restaurants but they should sit on the floor. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:04 |
Being the owner of a small breed I often have my dog on my lap, but not when I am actually eating food. Would not expect her to be allowed on the furniture |
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Tawny | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:07 |
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. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:08 |
Dog friendly restaurant etc is good as long as the human(s) with it sit on the floor. |
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Caroline | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:19 |
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. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:21 |
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 !!! |
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Tawny | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:37 |
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. |
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JustGinnie | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:41 |
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. |
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Island | Report | 4 Aug 2021 15:52 |
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. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 4 Aug 2021 16:12 |
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 |
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ZZzzz | Report | 4 Aug 2021 16:38 |
Kentishmaid, I think the same with children in shopping trolleys where the food goes, could be dog poo on their shoes. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 4 Aug 2021 17:19 |
That's true ZZzzz |
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Andrew | Report | 4 Aug 2021 20:47 |
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. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 4 Aug 2021 22:24 |
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. |
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Caroline | Report | 5 Aug 2021 19:24 |
"Not sure what an 'upscale restaurant' is or why it is different to a normal one with regards to the dog question." |
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Island | Report | 5 Aug 2021 19:38 |
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. |
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nameslessone | Report | 5 Aug 2021 20:18 |
It sure where the ‘upscale restaurant’ comment came from but wouldn’t that be one where they let ‘handbag’ dogs in? |