Other People's Dogs
Seattlest has two big dogs. We love them. We are those people who love them a little bit like our children. But: they are our dogs, and we love them. Like actual children, we are clear on the fact that not everyone else would love them, and honestly we don't like everyone else's dogs either. Especially the small yappy ones. So a state law to allow dogs in bars? Please, please, Seattle, make it stop. Children can't drink and don't belong in bars, and neither do dogs.
Your dogs do not need to go everywhere with you. Especially if they are not "well behaved", which is a horribly obtuse judgment call that many dog owners are miserably myopic at making. Recently, while eating lunch with a friend in Columbia City, a family tied their puppy up outside the big glass windows of the restaurant/bar we were in. God that puppy was cute. Its adorableness was matched only by its proficiency at incessant barking. There was talk of drop-kicking it. (Yes, we like Norm's and there are usually some pretty cool, well-behaved dogs there. We don't suspect that would be the, um, norm, on a larger scale.)
This being Seattle, the follow-on to this law would be groups whining and protesting that their favorite companions should be allowed in bars, too, and next thing you know you'll be saddling up for a shot with a beer back at Linda's next to some guy with two ferrets sitting on his shoulders.
