Comments on: Bringing a purse dog into the food store

By: Bill Alexander

Bill Alexander — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:59:22 +0000

Most of the restaurants I go to charge corkage if you bring your own wine, and don’t want you to bring your own raw meat.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:36:09 +0000

haha! I see both sides but you really should look into restaurants that allow pets. However, most restaurants won’t let you take your dog out of your bag.

By: GregS

GregS — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:27:28 +0000

I look forward to the day I can bring my pet rat, which I found in the back alley, to the finest of restaurants. I’m pretty sure he’s not rabid, and he has so few fleas you’ll barely notice them when he comes on your table to sample your steak tartare.

[Note to the humor-impaired: I don’t really have a pet rat. But the point is that if people are to have a right to bring their dogs into shops and restaurants, you can’t really deny them the right to bring other types of pets, like cats and rats].

By: giff

giff — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:37:51 +0000

Humans carry far more communicable diseases than canines! Lets ban humans from restaurants and groceries!

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:42:31 +0000

Of course it is easier to have a yes/no switch: evil smokers must not be permitted anywhere near a restaurant, animals must be nowhere near food, unless they are necessary because you are so whacked-out that you can’t be on the street because you stress out at the sight of he pavement, etc.etc. What, however, would be so terrible if we left it up to the shop/restaurant owner? A PETS WELCOME or NO SMOKING sign? Can’t go into that restaurant because of dander allergies or because you need your ciggy? Your sacred rights to have everything your way at all times restricted.

Tough. Go some place else.

Bob

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:58:49 +0000

I’m sorry, but I do not want animals near food that I will be ingesting. That’s for the comfort of your own home, not a public resturaunt or food market. Pet dander is easily transferable onto objects and into the air, do you seriously want to be responsible for giving someone an allergic reaction?

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:24:37 +0000

“What a handsome rat!”

Wouldn’t they want to say something about the dog as well?

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:25:58 +0000

Perhaps shopkeepers unhappy with customers bringing in purse dogs should adopt the indirect approach, making comments such as: “What a handsome rat!”

By: nevins

nevins — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:01:37 +0000

Amy: We accept children as works in progress. True, some parent’s skills are possibly wanting, and any child will at some time have less than stellar conduct. And in a few years those children will be productive citizens, and you will still be a stuffy old bitch.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:15:36 +0000

Children behave as well as they are treated.