[nagdu] being reported to your school

[Alan]

Personally? I don't have a dog..yet...note that key word yet...but I think 
taking a dog to a bar is only abuse if you're brain dead enough to give them 
a drink.

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From: "The Pawpower Pack" <pawpower4me at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] being reported to your school


>I would agree that throwing up on one's dog is hardly ideal.  However, 
>sometimes stuff happens.  I take my dog to bars when I go.  My dog is 
>there if I drink alcohol.  Granted, I'm at the point in my life, where 
>time and experience has taught me that drinking until one throws up is 
>hardly a good idea, for a number of reasons.  However I don't think  taking 
>my dog to the bar and drinking is a crime.  If someone saw my  dog at a bar 
>and saw me drinking and having a good time with friends  and they accused 
>me of abuse, I'd be pretty upset.
> People are different, they have different lifestyles.  Some dogs don't 
> like bars and the noise does bother them.  If someone had a dog like 
> that, I would hope they'd use their judgement and not take the dog. 
> However if the dog is like mine and doesn't really care, then who's 
> business is it of anyone's to say I should, or should not have my dog  at 
> a bar?
> Also if someone threw up on their dog because they were ill, is that 
> still abuse, or is it the drinking plus the vomiting that is the issue?
> I drink, I go to bars.  I live in New Orleans and my dog goes on  Bourbon 
> street with me and I have a hard time thinking this is abusive.
>
> My dog gets fed, loved, medical care.  She works has toys, other dog 
> friends and I spend lots of time with her.  Does the fact that someone 
> drinks alcohol with their dog at a bar then negate all of the other 
> things?
> I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm honestly curious.
>
>
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