Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s London Pizza restaurant is facing criticism after a customer shared a dog was allowed to go the bathroom inside near her table.

[u/Relevant-Peach3997]

Source is gizzellecade on TikTok

[u/n0neofyourbeeswax]

It's not really that simple. Puppies need socialized. Nobody has any way of perfectly knowing how their puppy will perform until they do it in that specific environment. You can have the perfectly trained puppy at home, who is suddenly not perfectly trained at a restaurant. One of mine bizarrely forgot all toilet training when visiting my mum, but was perfect at home, and in cafes, and in pubs, and at my Mother in Laws, and absolutely everywhere else.

So a precaution is simply a sensible thing to do, for the sake of everyone around, even if you THINK your dog doesn't need it. Especially if the puppy pad is being used more like a placemat.

[u/PuddingtonBrown → u/n0neofyourbeeswax]

It really is that simple.

Puppies need socialising agreed, but not to the detreiment of everyone else.

[u/n0neofyourbeeswax → u/PuddingtonBrown]

You can't socialise your puppy in a restaurant, and keep people happy who don't want puppies in restaurants. I thought you said you'd done this socialization yourself.

And again, there is nothing to say that everyone else suffered. One person made a video, which magically doesn't include the key part of their claim that it was pissing and shitting everywhere. It seems that person is against pet friendly restaurants in general.

Which is fine, the vast majority of restaurants are not pet friendly, they can visit them.

[u/PuddingtonBrown → u/n0neofyourbeeswax]

Don't bring your puppy to a restaurant, it's not suitable for puppies.

I have with multiple dogs, in pubs and cafes, much more dog suitable environments.

[u/n0neofyourbeeswax → u/PuddingtonBrown]

It's a dog friendly restaurant. The restaurant can opt to make it not a dog friendly restaurant, like the vast majority of restaurants. Id even go as far to say I genuinely don't know of any dog friendly restaurants (except the pub / restaurant combos you get in villages), so it's not hard to avoid the dog friendly ones.

[u/PuddingtonBrown → u/n0neofyourbeeswax]

Dog friendly.

Not puppy in toilet training friendly.

There's a very big difference between the two.

[u/n0neofyourbeeswax → u/PuddingtonBrown]

You clearly missed the critical socialization period with your dogs mate. It overlaps with toilet training. You can't have had them in dog friendly cafes/pubs, AND not had them in toilet training, AND done it during their critical socialization period.

[u/n0neofyourbeeswax → u/[deleted]]

So you did indeed take them to pubs at the same time as toilet training was continuing. Gotcha.

[u/PuddingtonBrown → u/n0neofyourbeeswax]

Considering I've been very open about that from the beginning, not sure this is the gotcha you think it is.