Originally Posted By: rooflessVW
Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
Originally Posted By: rooflessVW
I think dogs should be allowed everywhere people are. Not sure why they're not in the US.
Most people know enough to not relieve themselves on the floor and bite other customers.
Note that I said MOST...
People who think their dogs are everybody else's burden to bear drive me nuts.
The problem with dogs as you see them, are actually a problem with people.
Undisciplined people own undisciplined animals. When I lived in Germany never did I see a dog in a public place that was anything but well behaved. That included restaurants, malls, shopping centers, trains, etc...
Funny, I was in Germany for 1 week on business and got to witness a filthy woman relieving herself outside a bar in Koln after begging everybody in sight for a cig and also had to put up with a nearly out of control coworker accusing me and the other American visitors of being complicit in the flattening of Hannover by bomber. I brought up the theories of Machiavelli and pointed out that Germany was fortunate that the US followed the policy of making allies out of the nations it had conquered instead of devastating them so completely they would never again be a threat. I was not impressed with the discipline!
The owners may possibly be at the root of the problems with their pets, but the situation is generally more pleasant for others with only the undisciplined owners around sans their pets. For example, I took my very young daughter sledding in my town once and some obnoxious lady brought a nasty little yippy dog with her...she wasn't even sledding, just hanging around yakking. When I went to push off with my little girl in my lap, the crummy little dog got excited by the motion and tried to jump into the sled with us and bite my daughter...I tried to push it away and it started sinking its teeth into my gloves. I finally gave it a good backhand and sent the thing flying about 10 feet.
The old witch started complaining loudly to the crowd about how some man had hit her dog and asked how he would feel if she hit him like that. My wife saw the whole thing and suggested the lady better leave unless she wanted to have some kind of violence committed against her dog and possibly her...she knew exactly how mad I was going to be and how I was likely to respond. Luckily for everybody, the old hag left quickly after some outraged huffing and puffing.
That lady would have been irritating no matter what, but the situation was only dangerous with her stupid little dog around. Again, even a really moronic person probably isn't going to try to bite a little girl.
