To be sick of dogs in cafes/restaurants etc

[Dreamingi]

Just this really
obviously not service dogs

but why all of a sudden is it ok for dogs to be allowed places where others are eating?!?

Most pet owners are decent people. They won’t subject others to their pet unless they have to or needs must.

But clearly the ones allowing dogs in are ones that have identified that allowing dogs in increases business. They’re a business and will accommodate who brings in the money. So maybe the cafes who you and all your friends don’t use can cope without your custom. But that is good as it means other cafes that you and your friends use, which don’t allow dogs in, get your business. Which proves my point - there’s something for everyone. You can use none dog friendly ones, and others can use the dog friendly ones. Then everyone’s happy 🙂

It would be great if cafe's / restaurants / pubs could at least be divided into dog and non-dog areas. Like they used to be for smokers.

Why can't people tie their dogs up outside shops as always used to happen?

Don’t exaggerate. Come and live in my town. Overun. Quite happy to trek around and find somewhere dog free as PPs have suggested but …you know what….cafe owners need their livelihood so guess what…..there isn’t a dog free place.

Exactly! can’t live without them sniffing around other people for more than ten minutes. Get away from me!!!

Well, see, I have a phobia of other people's children so maybe they shouldn't be out.

And me!

Then might I suggest you actually RTWT as I posted about that horrific experience earlier this evening on this very thread.

And I'm not sure why you think these MN posters are lying. I've experienced many things like that too.

I vividly remember sitting on a bench one winter, minding my own business, following the death of someone close, wearing a gorgeous white Karen Millen coat and having a dog run up to me and paw me with its muddy paws. I shouted and leapt up and it kept jumping up at me. The coat was ruined after that; £200+ down the drain and the idiot dog owner didn't give a damn. Was that a lie?

I also posted upthread (which you apparently didn't read) about my recent experience in a Clarks shoe shop where I had to leave as a dog kept hassling me while I was trying on shoes. I actually emailed a complaint to Clarks following it. Was that a lie?

And yep I've had dogs hassling my children many many MANY times, in cafes, in parks, even in playgrounds (which was where the attack on my baby was).

Basically, your belief that people are making up these incidents is part of the problem. This stuff happens ALL THE TIME.

Do you mean to make yourself seem to unintelligent..? 🙄

Yep

Dramatic 😂

Yes, this would be something at least.

This entire thread is about dogs in pubs and shops and the extra profit that welcoming dogs brings to those establishments, so that is blatantly untrue.

I'd like to think you're right, but sadly that hasn't been my experience.

Why am I exaggerating? What town do you live in?

literally watched a dog off the lead today in a crowded park run into a group of toddlers and lick them all. The owner ambled over, shouting at it to ‘ stop it’, ‘he’s alright..loves children etc etc. ‘ Why the hell do we have to put up with that? Then have to finish the day by walking walk past all the dog crap and enjoying apple trees festooned in blossom but also festooned with poo bags. yeah, dogs are great.

I see more litter, than dog 💩 in my town.

At least then people would know that the area they were sat in was clean of any muddy paws or slobber. A safe distance for those nervous around dogs.

Why don't places do this?

I repeat. Please read my post. I was not referring to dog attacks. Entirely different topic to people complaining about dogs in cafes. Can’t you see this? Obviously there have been attacks on people by dogs. Which have been reported in newspapers. But that’s not what this thread is about? And I’m truly sorry about your £200 Karen Millen coat being ruined once by a dog. It must have been horrific for you. You certainly sound like you’ve been very unlucky in your life with dogs targeting you so much. They do say though that dogs can sense when people dislike them………..

I’m talking about the £800 nonsense. We managed to have a meal under 20 quid before dogs were allowed in. Bizarre moment. It doesn’t matter which town I live in. The supporters of no dogs in restaurants and other places will doubtless agree that it’s a similar situation where they live.

I’m sorry about that, it shouldn’t be. I’d never let my dog go near anyone that wasn’t comfortable around him. I’d also not take him into a pub/etc where no other dogs were allowed/already in and if I did he wouldn’t be sniffing around other peoples tables!

Oh god, we get that ALL the time. In fact, we stopped going to one park in Surrey as we had that literally every time we went.

My DC has an awful dog allergy. Cats aren’t great too. We are finding it harder and harder to go to any pub or restaurant, particularly by the sea, without animals nearby or fur and dander in the air. They take extra strong prescribed antihistamines, sometimes two varieties at once. Still often come out in hives. I would welcome a few places that are dog free that we could go to. We now try to sit outside, and don’t go out in bad weather.

ah yes, dogs sense when people dislike them.. Try telling surreygirl with her baby in a pram being attacked. Ah, yes, dear doggy must have sensed baby didn’t like him