guests – YourDesignerDog https://www.yourdesignerdogblog.com YourDesignerDogBlog: The Adventures of Sadie the Yorkipoo Mon, 01 Feb 2016 06:58:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 My #1 Dog Friendly Dining Tip https://www.yourdesignerdogblog.com/2015/08/20/my-1-dog-friendly-dining-tip/ https://www.yourdesignerdogblog.com/2015/08/20/my-1-dog-friendly-dining-tip/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:15:36 +0000 http://www.yourdesignerdogblog.com/?p=6924 dogs, designer dogs, yorkipoo, yorkie poo, dog friendly dining, outdoor dining

 

My top tip for dining out with your furry family is:

don’t hesitate to ask.

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My family loves going out to dinner, but we almost never go out anymore because we feel sad having to leave Sadie home alone. So we get excited when we discover a new restaurant that is dog friendly. Sadie loves going out to dinner with us, exploring a new place with exciting new smells. And we love having Sadie as a dinner companion. But it’s hard to find places that allow dogs in my area, even if they have outdoor dining areas. And you can’t necessarily rely on reviews or word of mouth to find out if a restaurant  is dog friendly, because one manager may love having dogs, but if someone else is in charge that day, he or she may be too nervous to allow your dog to stay. So my best piece of advice is don’t hesitate to ask, because what the restaurant staff says may surprise you.

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For example, Sadie and I recently stayed at a dog friendly hotel that had an attached restaurant. The hotel clearly had frequent canine guests, as they had welcome treats and food and water bowls already set up in the rooms. So I assumed it would be an every day request to eat with my dog on the patio of the restaurant. As usual, assuming didn’t work out well. Apparently I am the first person to ever ask to eat there with my dog! The wait staff and kitchen staff had a discussion about my request and decided it was fine with them if the hotel manager approved. So then they had to track down the hotel manager to give permission for me to eat outside with my dog at the dog friendly hotel. Eventually the manger approved and we had a nice dinner on the patio. But the point of my story is that no other dog owner ever thought to ask. Imagine all the other poor doggies left alone in their hotel rooms when they could have been enjoying dinner with the rest of the family. All it took was a simple question.

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This picture is a reminder that I need to tell house guests to keep my home dog-proof. A relative was spending the night and noticed that the toilet paper was running out, so they thoughtfully left a brand new roll on the floor in the bathroom. I woke up in the middle of the night to strange sounds coming from the bathroom and noticed that the dog was no longer in bed. I found Sadie sitting on the bathroom floor, using her back paws to keep the roll of toilet paper in place, while her front paws were moving at lightening speed unrolling the tp and shredding it to pieces. I ran to get the camera and caught the picture of her still in action. Then she turned to me and gave me a look that said “I found this on the floor. That means  it’s mine, right?”

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Sadie’s territory was invaded this weekend by guests from out of town. At first she was shy around so many new people and kept hiding behind my legs and jumping into my arms. Then she got curious and started cautiously sniffing around everyone’s feet. She would walk towards someone, plant her back paws in safe territory, then creep forward with her front paws until she was stretched out as far as she could go and sniffed as much of the person as she could reach that way. After a while it became clear that these people weren’t leaving anytime soon, so Sadie decided to trust the new person sitting closest to her and presented him with one of her squeaky toys. From then on she had a blast, playing and chasing her toys and running after anyone who tried to walk out of the room. She even showed off a few of her best tricks to entertain everybody. Now that our guests have gone and the house is quiet, Sadie has passed out on the couch from the overload of excitement.

 


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