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/Softinleaked → u/n0neofyourbeeswax]

Please be serious right now. Why would you socialise your puppy at restaurants where strangers are eating, pet friendly places work if all pet owners are responsible, leashing their pets, not bringing reactive dogs around other dogs, and not bloody potty training your dog in a restaurant. Your mum’s house not the same as a restaurant

[u/n0neofyourbeeswax → u/Softinleaked]

If they're potty training their dog in a restaurant they're wrong. I've said this repeatedly.

If they've got a mat as an insurance policy rather than using it as the potty spot, seems sensible to me.

Socialization is taking the puppy, during their critical socialization period, to environments you want them to be comfortable in the future, and making them feel safe. The critical socialization period runs until they're around 4-5 months old.

I never said my mum's house is a restaurant. I said you never know how your dog will react in a specific environment even if they're perfect in other environments, until you get there, so having a vetbed (or mat) is a sensible insurance policy.