The Peak Lookout deserves a big thank you from all the dog owners who, thanks to the management there, can enjoy a civilised lunch or breakfast in the company of their canine. But some dog owners are taking advantage of the restaurant’s largesse by forcing diners to tolerate the behavior of their poorly-trained dogs.
We hiked up The Peak on Sunday and enjoyed a leisurely lunch on The Lookout’s back patio. I was thrilled we could bring our dog in with us to the “dog section”. However, I soon wished we had tied her up outside so we could sit further away from the cacophony of dog barking and whining that we had to listen from the other dogs, throughout the meal. It was anarchy.
If the dog barking wasn’t bad enough, one dog had urinated under one of the tables. My advice to the restaurant would be to advise owners that if their dogs didn’t behave, they would be asked to remove the dog.
But I guess once you do that, you open the floodgate to other restrictions. “Sorry ma’am, your baby is too noisy — can you please leave it outside?”
But really, having a restaurant that allows dogs is a great thing in a city that is, for the most part, completely dog un-friendly. But even in The Peak piazza area, dogs were barking, and running around out of control. If this keeps up, it won’t be long before dogs won’t be allowed in there either.
As my husband often says “all good things in Hong Kong eventually come to an end” and I’m afraid that if this continues, it will spoil it for those of us with well-behaved dogs.
I’m not talking Lassies here, but dogs in public should at least be under control and not be nuisance to others.
