Small dogs, museums, transport, resturants etc

[nom de plume]

What are the general guidelines for going out with a small dog? the

type of dog that you can carry under your arm. Is there a different

attitude to where you can go with them say if you are in Paris compared

to a small country town.

Thanks

Diana

[PossumGirl]

We have a medium-sized dog, certainly no way to pick her up and hold her easily as she weighs 23 kilos!  We live in the south and take her with us just about everywhere with no problem.  There are occasional places that have "no dogs allowed" signs: prefecture, supermarkets, a few larger stores, but other than that we just take her in with us to the bank, the post office, small local shops, restaurants, etc.  My guess would be that a small dog would be even easier, especially if you can train her to be happy insided a comfy bag of some sort.

We were in Paris for several days and also had no problems there, but I must admit that we didn't try going to any museums.

Good luck.

PG

[Tony F Dordogne]

We have a couple of people who regularly take their small dogs into the local supermarkets, larger dogs are left outside.

One of the owners of the local odd person who actually keeps the dog in the trolley but some of the others let their dogs run around - just seems odd to take them into a supermarket at all.  But don't actually remember seeing 'no dogs' signs on the entrances.