table 12 March 2010
I have just heard on the radio that a high-chair has been invented so that people can have their dog at the table with them at mealtimes (presumably they chow down at the same time as the humans is the idea?). It’s some sort of contraption that hooks onto the table and the dog is strapped into it. That can’t work, surely? Firstly there’s the size of the dog to consider. And no dog I’ve yet met would like being strapped into a mad contraption like that. AND, do you really want the pooch at the table, eating noisily along with the rest of the family/menagerie – can’t see the mutts wanting to observe table etiquette much – hard enough making kids or a husband do that. I’d get into the hygiene argument except that as a former cat ‘owner’ I know that felines have their own ideas about where they can and can’t go re furniture and hygiene might have been an issue but reasoning with her was useless – she did her own thing. The G spent a lot of her life on the table as the view was great from up there, though if we were having dinner, she was put on the floor and kept distracted by her own meal – and she always got served first…
