Dog Friendly Cafe Anyone?  

Wow, ok yeah that does sound very paranoid. Sorry but it does.
I read over some of your posts & understand that you've had alot of messed up things happen to your dogs but...wow. It reminds me of one of those insane, over protective, new mothers who never takes her newborn out of the house, doesn't let anyone hold them unless they wash there hands first, if you're sick you can't come into the house, never lets them play outside when they get older, never let's them get dirty or scrapped up...basically they never let them live.

I'm one of the biggest animal lovers that I know. Cats, dogs, pure breeds & mixes, bunnies, lizards, pigs, snakes, rats, skunks, you name, I love it!! But I'm not going to shelter my animals & baby them simply because they might get hurt. If you have kids are you also going to end up as one of those insane mothers who never let's her baby crawl on the ground or eat dirt, never let's them play in the rain, who freaks out over a simple scrap?

Now I may come off as a b*tch for having posted that but I honestly don't care. I do think that's insane for you to shelter your dogs so much. But they are your dogs. I can't tell you, nor would I, what to do. You're an adult & can make your own choices. I'm just simply stating my thoughts in response.

All I can say is I'm glad there's not more people like you who never let their furbaby's out for a romp on the leash or who never take them to a dog park...The world would be a dull place if everyone felt that way.

If I knew for a fact that everyone vaccinated their dogs properly, it wouldn't be as much of an issue. Parvo is deadly and can live in the grass for years- you can track it on your shoes and bring it into your home. Do I have a bottle of bleach at my front door to spray my feet before I come into the house? No, my dogs are vaccinated against it, but others may not be, and things are always mutating so the vaccine may not be 100% effective.

As I stated, kennel cough and the dog flu are aireborn- yet I do allow my dogs to go outside, however I'm not going to take my dogs to a place where other dogs are allowed to go in without having proof of their vaccinations. To do so is risking your dogs life. I had a 5 year old dog die just days after showing symptoms- I am not going to risk that happening again. I've worked with dogs for 13 years, and we require that dogs are current on all vaccinations before coming in- and you wouldn't believe the amount of people who are clueless on getting vaccines (or even routine care) for their dogs. We literally had a woman stop in for grooming and was turned down for not having vaccines on her dog, and her dog sneezed in the lobby and one of his teeth fell out... his teeth were THAT rotten. Now I know that rotten teeth are not contagious, but I wonder what else that dog could have been carrying? We wouldn't allow him in our facility, but I bet he'd be welcome in your cafe huh?