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Originally Posted by Judyest  My daughter recently vacationed in Paris. She was excited to tell me that they dined in a restaurant with a poodle sitting on a chair at the table next to them. She remarked that maybe I should move to Paris.   |
Europe is much more dog friendly, I think it was Switzerland the first time I realized how they allow dogs to walk right into restaurants. I was looking a lady with a standard poodle lying at her feet under her table. The lady smiled at me, and I said, OMG the blind lady just smiled at me! I assumed that the poodle was a seeing eye dog
I think a lot of places have rules that say no dogs and you will see it posted at their front door. However often salepeople will look the other way when it comes to small purse dogs, so I tend to chance it. I took Lola into Joanne's in a sling purse with just her little head peaking out and no one said anything, the gals at the cutting table were even making a fuss over her, then some other clerk, could have been the mgr, came over and gave me a tongue lashing about didn't those girls waiting on me tell me pets are not allowed and there is a sign on the door that says so. I said I saw that sign but it was a picture of a big dog standing on a leash, so why would I think it applied to a 5 lb dog carried in a purse. Since she was so nasty I could not resist it and I said didn't anyone tell you that you should be nice to your customers? however if you would like me to leave now, you can take my cut fabric and put it on the clearance table, or if you prefer I will quickly finish my purchase. I left with the fabric, I realize they have a job to do and if she was nice about it my attitude would have been different. I guess it is hard for them to make rules about pets since I do not want a bunch of big dogs walking all over store and restaurants. I never tried the stroller approach but if the dogs are zipped in and not seen I know it would work, and LOL I could just see the person's face when the say oh let me see your little baby