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From: greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Just one more Paris observation
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 13:17:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 13:17:53 1986
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> 
> The oddest thing we observed on our October Paris trip was the
> obsession Parisians have with their pets, particularly their dogs!
> On our very first night and every night thereafter, we observed
> at least 1 Frenchperson bringing their dog to a restaurant with them.
>

This isn't purely a French phenomenon but rather, at least as far as
I've seen, a general European one.  We saw dogs accompanying people
into restaurants (sometimes preceding their owners and appearing to
pick the table) in first-class restaurants in Duesseldorf, Munich,
Zurich, Geneva and Vienna, just to name a few that came to mind.  If
you look in a "Guide Michelin" for hotel/restaurant listings, you'll
notice that most of those displaying the dog crossed out ("no pets
allowed") are heavily oriented toward American tourists.

One time in Munich in summer of 1984, I was with my family in a Moevenpick
restaurant.  We were walking back to our table from the buffet when
a dog, unprovoked, leaped out from under a table and snapped at our
then 3-year-old.  After I chewed out the dog and its owners and we
returned to our table, my son, still trembling, muttered "that must
have been a German dog".

	- Greg Paley/Olivetti ATC