COOL OR NOT COOL: Dogs in Bars?

I'll remind you that Foreign Dude has some very strong feelings about dogs in bars (he votes cool), and based on the fact that I'm completely obsessed with my own dog Oliver, it's not really a surprise that I'm throwing another vote cool's way. However, the city of New York is comin' down hard on the side of "not cool."

"Health Department officials wrote 125 tickets for “live animal violations” at bars and restaurants in Brooklyn between July, 2010 and July, 2011...the number of monthly tickets the city wrote in Brooklyn nearly tripled from June 2010 to July 2011."

According to the Brooklyn Paper, 1/4 of these violations went down in Wiliamsburg and Greenpoint, but Park Slope still has it's fair share of dog lovin' bars...and some of them are basically like "fuck the police."

Here's the thing: I totally get the whole no dogs in restaurant thing, but the no dogs in bars rule is just plain stupid. And even if you're gonna let the no dogs in bar rule stand, the no dogs on patios outside of bars is REALLY stupid. And for the record, I'm not even thinkin' of my damn self: Oliver isn't really a good bar dog candidate as he trouble relaxing and basically just works himself into a neurotic frenzy every time we've tried to bring him (like dog mama, like dog).

This is why I'll love Pacific Standard now and forever: “It’s a big deal for us,” said John Rauschenberg, who co-owns Pacific Standard, a beer bar on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope that was cited for having a pooch on the premises. “A lot of people who walk their dogs come in here. In restaurants, [the rule is] reasonable, but not here.”

There are a few other dog-friendly bars in the nabe that come to mind (High Dive, The Gate, etc), and let it be known that I will always, always, always be more apt to go drop some cash at any bar with a puggle sitting out front, but I'm a crazy person.

What do you btchz think?