Germany: a dog's paradise
October 14th 2009 19:45
On Saturday night I went to cocktail bar in Cologne's most lively nightlife district. After sitting there for around an hour, a middle-aged couple walked in with a cute, small dog on a leash. The dog positioned itself on the floor under the small round table and went to sleep. Neither it nor its owners seemed bothered by the fact that they were in a bar at 1am on a Saturday night, filled with young people getting drunk and loud dance music thudding out of the speakers.
This type of scene is not unusual in Germany. I often see dogs sitting inside restaurants next to their owners' chairs... or even ON the chairs. They also regularly ride buses and trains, and there are no rules to stop them from doing it.
As much as I like dogs, I really don’t want them putting their hair on a restaurant chair that I might be sitting on next. And I don’t understand why they need to accompany their owners to places like that in the first place.
And, seriously, who takes their dog to a crowded bar on a Saturday night? I would have never imagined that someone would do something like that… But now I know better.
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