The RSPCA is looking into getting all councils to change there bylaws so as to make it legal to be able to take your fur kid to a dog friendly area on the outside of cafes People can now make a complaint to council health dept if they are offended I no a lot of cafes make allowances for fur kids but this will make it legal
jetj said
04:16 AM May 14, 2012
Thats great!
I just wish National Parks would allow animals in vehicles. My chihuahua isn't going to disturb any native animals.
Boroma577 said
10:58 PM Jun 5, 2012
jetj wrote:
Thats great!
I just wish National Parks would allow animals in vehicles. My chihuahua isn't going to disturb any native animals.
Mine either Janette
Rip and Rosie said
03:31 PM Jun 6, 2012
nor do my 2 poodles- always on leads, and I collect their leavings.
blaze said
09:10 PM Jun 6, 2012
I am also a animal lover, had dogs, cats and birds most of my life but I dont like animals where I am eating and find it most offencive. If people travel with animals they need to abide and accept the restriction the same as I do as a smoker. I was a night manager at a CP that allowed pets and must say most were more than happy to pay the $50 bond and were very responcable but there was always a few that tried to spoil it. But please keep them away from where I pay to eat. In saying that when we have our family camp over chrismas there is at least 10 dogs ranging from great dane down to a chiowa (sp), pocket dog, and have spent many a happy meal time with these well behave and controlled dogs cheers blaze
Rip and Rosie said
01:02 AM Jun 7, 2012
I'd prefer a well trained dog, asleep at my feet, than a smoker blowing smoke into my lungs.
Also I can't see why, with a choice between a dog asleep under the table, a child screaming and demanding, a smoker feeling free to exhale and car exhausts up and down the steet, that anyone worries about the sleeping dog.
blaze said
10:05 AM Jun 7, 2012
I suppose its like smokers, not all are well behave or considerate. cheers blaze ps I am a smoker but dont want smokers where I am eating either.
Boroma577 said
03:47 PM Jun 7, 2012
blaze wrote:
I suppose its like smokers, not all are well behave or considerate. cheers
How true is that.....my daughter smokes and one or two of my friends and they are certainly considerate.....but geez I have come across a few who are not.
How about the guy who comes out of his caravan to stand right beside mine to have a smoke!!!
Simple statement and I don't want to start a war here PLEASE.
Gerty Dancer said
04:46 PM Jun 10, 2012
The world is full of inconsiderate people... parents with noisy brats, smokers, loud music-lovers, hoons on the street, as well as pet owners. They are in the minority but because they get so much attention the rules are changed for them. Then all the considerate people just have to put up with it.
Boroma577 said
07:43 PM Jun 10, 2012
Very true Gerty....very true.
Quietguy said
04:45 PM Jul 6, 2012
Rip and Rosie wrote:
nor do my 2 poodles- always on leads, and I collect their leavings.
While I too share your disappointment at not being able to visit National Parks because my dog travels with me, I suspect that even though you pick up their "leavings" you most likely don't pick up their urine.
It seems likely that the smell of both these may send a warning to native animals that a predator is about, and thus they may then vacate that area, meaning they have to move into another's space etc causing distress, fights, hindered breeding etc.
So I will just have to wait til my Josie passes on before I visit those parks.
Unless my idea for travelers to display a "Dog Swap" on their van catches on
David
jetj said
09:58 PM Jul 6, 2012
You can teach horses to urinate in a container when you whistle, I guess you could teach a dog.
My pet hate is inviting someone for dinner who brings their dog and feeds it off the plate.
I was in a park with a no dogs sign a few months ago with the dog in the car in the parking area. There was a wild dingo in the park scaring the kids using the swings.
Quietguy said
12:01 AM Jul 8, 2012
jetj wrote:
My pet hate is inviting someone for dinner who brings their dog and feeds it off the plate.
I'm the other way. My pet hate is visitors to dinner who look disdainful when I let Josie have my plate when I'm finished
David
jetj said
06:23 PM Jul 10, 2012
David it's your plate, your place, so your right to do what you like.
-- Edited by jetj on Tuesday 10th of July 2012 06:23:58 PM
Quietguy said
03:40 PM Jul 11, 2012
Thanks Jeanette
I reckon if they really don't like it then they can bring their own plate with them when they come to dinner or lunch.
David
Rip and Rosie said
03:44 PM Jul 11, 2012
It would turn me off if I thought the plate I was eating from had been given to the dog to eat from. I would hope it had been thoroughly washed in very hot water before it was given to me, but.............. ow, maybe its not enough! I don't like the dogs begging for food at the dinner table, and so don't like them being fed titbits from the table either.
Quietguy said
04:12 PM Jul 11, 2012
I too don't like dogs begging for food, but I've taught my Josie to just ask nicely by sitting up
And of course I do wash my plates whether or not Josie has cleaned them for me (never have to rinse them when she's on the job)
David
jetj said
05:53 AM Jul 13, 2012
Josie helps with the washing up. lol
I have a friend with 34 cats and if you go to her place for dinner, there are cats walking over the counter that she is dishing up the food on. Don't go there very often.
Quietguy said
02:01 PM Jul 13, 2012
jetj wrote:
Josie helps with the washing up. lol
I have a friend with 34 cats and if you go to her place for dinner, there are cats walking over the counter that she is dishing up the food on. Don't go there very often.
One of my friends only had 3 cats, but she too let the cats roam over the food preparation area, walk over plates, have little tastes etc while she served up etc.
Strange how she never seemed to relate this to her kids constantly missing school because of stomach upsets. I always had an excuse for refusing when she invited me for dinner.
David
Rip and Rosie said
05:20 PM Jul 13, 2012
I think it is a whole different issue to have a dog asleep under the table while people eat a meal. To have animals in/on the food preparation area is unhygenic in anyone's book, and feeding an animal by hand, and returning unwashed to preparing or eating food also lacks hygene. I would not eat out of the dog's bowl, and don't accept an animal eating from tableware.
Don't invite me to dinner- I'm not coming.
jetj said
10:00 PM Jul 13, 2012
I do agree wholeheartedly.
Quietguy said
10:27 PM Jul 13, 2012
Rip and Rosie wrote:
I think it is a whole different issue to have a dog asleep under the table while people eat a meal. To have animals in/on the food preparation area is unhygenic in anyone's book, and feeding an animal by hand, and returning unwashed to preparing or eating food also lacks hygene. I would not eat out of the dog's bowl, and don't accept an animal eating from tableware.
Don't invite me to dinner- I'm not coming.
Josie says she happy that you are not going to eat out of her bowl.
David for Josie
LEON said
08:30 PM Dec 7, 2015
I agree there are inconsiderate people around, however, I believe that most (not all) dog owners are considerate and are aware of the problems noisy dogs can cause. One way to avoid the issue of any noisy or unfriendly dog is the stay in a five star motel/resort complex - no dogs - no bad behavior.
The RSPCA is looking into getting all councils to change there bylaws so as to make it legal to be able to take your fur kid to a dog friendly area on the outside of cafes People can now make a complaint to council health dept if they are offended I no a lot of cafes make allowances for fur kids but this will make it legal
I just wish National Parks would allow animals in vehicles. My chihuahua isn't going to disturb any native animals.
Mine either Janette
cheers
blaze
Also I can't see why, with a choice between a dog asleep under the table, a child screaming and demanding, a smoker feeling free to exhale and car exhausts up and down the steet, that anyone worries about the sleeping dog.
cheers
blaze
ps I am a smoker but dont want smokers where I am eating either.
How true is that.....my daughter smokes and one or two of my friends and they are certainly considerate.....but geez I have come across a few who are not.
How about the guy who comes out of his caravan to stand right beside mine to have a smoke!!!
Simple statement and I don't want to start a war here PLEASE.
Very true Gerty....very true.
My pet hate is inviting someone for dinner who brings their dog and feeds it off the plate.
I was in a park with a no dogs sign a few months ago with the dog in the car in the parking area. There was a wild dingo in the park scaring the kids using the swings.
David it's your plate, your place, so your right to do what you like.
-- Edited by jetj on Tuesday 10th of July 2012 06:23:58 PM
I don't like the dogs begging for food at the dinner table, and so don't like them being fed titbits from the table either.
I have a friend with 34 cats and if you go to her place for dinner, there are cats walking over the counter that she is dishing up the food on. Don't go there very often.
To have animals in/on the food preparation area is unhygenic in anyone's book, and feeding an animal by hand, and returning unwashed to preparing or eating food also lacks hygene.
I would not eat out of the dog's bowl, and don't accept an animal eating from tableware.
Don't invite me to dinner- I'm not coming.
I agree there are inconsiderate people around, however, I believe that most (not all) dog owners are considerate and are aware of the problems noisy dogs can cause. One way to avoid the issue of any noisy or unfriendly dog is the stay in a five star motel/resort complex - no dogs - no bad behavior.