Woof.
Our neighborhood pub is a very kid-friendly place, to its credit, but sometimes it leaves the childless couples such as ourselves feeling a bit put upon.
“We ought to be able to bring in our greyhound,” my wife told the bartender one day. “She’s friendly, polite, and a lot less noisy than the kids.”
“if I didn’t have to worry about health inspectors,” said the bartender, “you’d be set.”
Apparently state Senator Ken Jacobsen of Seattle thinks the same way. He’s introduced a bill to allow bars and restaurant owners with liquor licenses, at their discretion, to let leashed, well-behaved dogs into their establishments.
Senator, you have our vote. Plus four paws up.
While I’m sad that I’m not allowed to have a dog in my apartment, I worry that things might get a little hectic in a bar situation, particularly with multiple pets in attendance. I suspect that if this passed, we’d only see a couple of dog cafes here and there anyway.
Can we not bring our dogs into bars? Can we just leave them leashed up outside with water and kibble?
I know that a lot of people are attached to their pets like they’re children, but they don’t let children into bars, either.
Oh man. If there were dogs in bars I’d spend even more time in them. This would not be good for any of my drinking organs.
Whenever I see a kid at the cracker-throwing stage, I think that small kids and dogs might cancel each other out in a restaurant. The dogs would clean up the scattered food, and the kids would keep the dogs’ attention riveted.
Melissa Tyler, you may be on to something there.
I’ve been in several bars that have dogs in them from time to time. Bills on Broadway and Kincoras are two that I can think of off the top of my head that have had friendly canines walking around.I was thrown at first but a bar dog is actually really cool because it makes the whole place feel more homey. Seriously, the dog loves it because they get to be attention whores. I loved it because every half hour or so the dog would make its way over by me and I’d pet it and just generally feed off the happy dog vibes.Since I can’t have a dog where I live (having grown up with dogs), i would love to have dogs in bars.only problem is not all dogs are nice. it would have to be one well adjusted dog to be chill in a room full of drunk people always pawing at it. as a bar owner the liability risk is probably pretty big.
You’re all morons. I love dogs, have two of them, but this proposal is garbage. Do our state and city leaders not have more important items to tackle (I dunno… school funding, transportation, homelessness) that they think they can waste all of our time and money so all you insecure wallflowers can have Fifi lying under the table at a bar to make you feel less vulnerable? What happens when it gets crowded, when people get drunk, if your dog stinks, has to piss, etc.? And do you think that the dog would actually enjoy lying cramped in a loud dark bar? Leave Fifi at home for the evening doofuses. If you’re as annoying in real life as all of you seem here, I’m sure she’d appreciate the break.