Dog People

I’m at La Colombe in my normal seat, and some woman left her dog tied up outside, and it kept barking. Not in an angry, aggressive way at first. More like a pathetic “where are you, master? Where did you go? Why did you leave me here?” sort of way. Then it started barking more aggressively AND jumping up at people as they left the café with food and coffee. And it’s not like the lady tied it up to run in for a coffee-to-go. No, siree. She got a mug of coffee and SAT DOWN at a table with a friend and left her dog outside. Why did she BRING the dog if she was just going leave it outside, tied up?

At some point I realized that there was a second, almost identical dog out there with it, but not tied up. We actually have leash laws in this city, u know. I so wanted to call the city dog catcher (do we still have one of those?) except that punishes the dog more than the owner, since it’ll end up being killed, prolly. She went out once and gave them a good talking to, and scratched them behind the ears. Yeah, THAT’ll teach ‘em, lady. That worked for about 60 seconds, and then it started up again. People had to hold their coffee up high to keep the dogs from getting to it. I was about to go over and say something to her. I wish Noddy’d been here. She’d’ve backed me up. Finally the woman and the guy she was with got up and left. Dog people, I’m telling ya.