IME, a well-behaved dog, as long as it’s more than a lunge away, enhances my enjoyment dining out.
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I love restaurants that attract families with young children. I actually seek them out and return.
Fun for me.
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When my sister & her family lived in Fort Lauderdale, they’d go to the Oktoberfest most years, where the highlight was the wiener dog races. I went to one at a local county fair, and it was hilarious–half the dogs would run to the finish, and half would run the other way, head to their owners, lie down and sleep, etc.
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Dachshunds are cantankerous dogs, so when you combine cute, cantankerous and silly costumes you get a pretty good show. I have only seen one wiener dog race and it was years ago but my favorite costume is still the hot dog.
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I realise I’m not really thinking about restaurants, but in cafes and bars that serve food (at least where I am in Scotland) I’m often delighted to see dogs. As I don’t have any myself, this is a chance for me to play. That said I appreciate that there are people with allergies and phobias who might prefer not to encounter dogs, even if I don’t get it myself. (Given that all the dogs I’ve seen are well behaved and that I can wash my hands after playing and before eating, I’m not concerned about hygiene.)
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Totally. With dogs, what you see is what you get. If they had sleeves, that’s where they’d wear their hearts. You can glance, look and show interest to them without approbation–or worse.
In my experience, patrons in dog-friendly places tend to be friendlier and more engaging than ones in dog-phobic ones.
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Cute, even if shaved.
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It’s doing the downward dog pose.
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She gave it a toy to keep it occupied.
