{"id":1177,"date":"2015-05-19T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T18:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2015-05-19T18:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T18:39:04","slug":"dining-with-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/animals-and-culture\/dining-with-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dining with the Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/15\/nyregion\/a-new-york-state-senate-bill-is-a-win-for-four-legged-guests-in-outdoor-restaurants.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big win for dog owners<\/a> who want to dine with their furry (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Hairless_Terrier\" target=\"_blank\">or not-so-furry<\/a>) companions in New York recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11.5px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px;\"><em>By a 60-0 vote on Wednesday, the State senate approved a bill that lets food service establishments indulge four-legged guests, by allowing restaurants to welcome dogs (if accompanied by a diner) into their outdoor eating areas. The State Assembly is not reviewing its version of the same bill, and its sponsor is confident it will pass.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More and more dining establishments are becoming dog-friendly, and it is great seeing New York get on board this train. With the average American work week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-leadership\/wp\/2014\/09\/02\/the-average-work-week-is-now-47-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">creeping back up to 47 hours<\/a>, forcing people\u00a0to\u00a0spend more time away from their homes and their pets, dog-friendly dining establishments offer a welcome opportunity to go out and &#8220;have a life&#8221; without leaving Fido behind.<\/p>\n<p>There are always concerns about dogs begging, getting into fights with each other, even jumping up on servers carrying heavy trays&#8230; but to that, we say: socializing and training your dog to be a polite companion is an investment of time and love every responsible pet owner will make. Furthermore, no responsible pet owner is going to foist an ill-mannered or aggressive dog on a restaurant (that wouldn&#8217;t exactly be <em>responsible<\/em>, now would it?). So when this bill passes, celebrate by going out and have a meal with your dog as an ambassador for the best in pet ownership!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1188\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1188\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1188 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DogAtTable.jpg\" alt=\"Probably not what the restaurant meant when it said dogs were &quot;welcome.&quot;\" width=\"450\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DogAtTable.jpg 450w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DogAtTable-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><em>Probably <strong>not<\/strong> what the restaurant meant when it said &#8220;dogs are welcome.&#8221;<\/em><\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1187\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1187\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1187 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DogAtBrunch.jpg\" alt=\"DogAtBrunch\" width=\"450\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DogAtBrunch.jpg 450w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DogAtBrunch-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><em>This is more like it.<\/em><\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more dining establishments are becoming dog-friendly, and it is great seeing New York get on board this train.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}