::: ShoSho’s Corner :::

If there’s something I really don’t like about the country I have been living in for so long (aka Switzerland), it’s seeing dogs everywhere: in the streets, shops and in restaurants.

It’s really amazing how the people here who take care of keeping the country clean, neat and organized, seem to forget about hygiene! I mean, I know that if a dog enters a restaurant in many other countries, they shut it down. But here, it’s normal to see a dog in a restaurant and it sort of puts me off. Imagine if the waiter pets the dog and then serves you ewww!!! Someone once told me that she was in Martel, a famous coffee shop here, when a dog peed and the waitress cleaned it with a tea towel. I don’t want to think if they washed that towel or threw it away ekkkhhh! I also heard that the only McDonalds in the world that allows dogs is here.

Yeah I got used to it but I just don’t understand why dogs have to go everywhere, like say shopping as well!Once a huge dog, about the size of a horse jumped on my kid and since that day, he gets really scared of dogs, he used to be fine before. I remember once I went to Selfridges and a woman was making a fuss at the door, with a small dog (she looked like Legally blonde with her puppy lol) and was trying to convince the guy to let her in, telling im that she will carry him and all that but he said  no way I am sorry Madame. Even in open places like Bisceter Village they are not allowed and I really like that. I feel comfortable when I walk in the streets there but here, I have to look you know, it’s annoying. Sometimes kids pass by and I mistake them for dogs, poor kids lol and I suddenly jump before realizing they are kids. 

Dogs should be taken for strolls in the parks, fields and open places where they can play and run, not taken shopping!! I even think the dogs themselves get bored! Anyways, I hope one day this will change, which I highly doubt, but at least in restaurants and cafes. And sorry for a gross subject while you folks are fasting lol!