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There are all sorts of loonies. Sports loo- nies who sit through blizzards to watch games in person they could see even better on the flat screen in their living rooms. Fash- ion loonies who buy $400 T-shirts that someone, some- where, has declared are “in.” Politics loonies who believe campaign promises.
The Very Wacky World Of The Dog Deranged
you and why are you inter- rupting my nap?”
atable from a human per- spective — and that spend- ing money on them makes us happy, too.”
In Manhattan, for instance, one restaurant serves 30 to 40 dogs a day a steak and vegetable entrée for $24. At Dogue in San Francisco, a rose-shaped pastry made with antelope heart goes for $15.
But my favorite variety of the mentally peculiar is “dog loonies.”
In place of bowls of Alpo on the kitchen floor, menus at dog-friendly establishments — like Maison de Pawz, Chateau le Woof and Dogue — offer Quarter Hounders, Chicken Paw Pie and bowls of Dog Paw Rignon.
In Manhattan, for instance, one restaurant serves 30 to 40 dogs a day a steak and vegetable entrée for $24. At Dogue in San Francisco, a rose-shaped pastry made with antelope heart goes for $15. If your dog has sworn off antelope hearts, it might be tempted by the mosaic
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To be fair, dog loonies are not as far out there as cat cra- zies. At least dogs will reward you with wagging tails when you come home. Cats will give just you a blank stare that clearly says, “Who are
Most of these places are, of course, on the coasts, not in areas where regular people live.
According to an authority quoted in Bon Appétit maga- zine, maybe all of this helps
“Dogs offer companion- ship and love, which is why we increasingly like to think of them as family,” says Za- zie Todd, an animal behavior expert. “It makes sense, then, that we want to feed our fur children foods that look pal-
So to get me to spend $75 for a dog’s meal, they’d have to serve me a whole bunch of those free mimosas.
But some dog loonies are doing their best to catch up to the cat crazies. So now they’ re taking their malti- poos, yorkiepoos goldendoo- dles and schnoodles to restau- rants that offer fine dining for dogs.
For the record, spending money never makes me hap- py. But I love dogs, although I’ve never lost sight of the fact that they are, in fact, animals. So I’ ve managed to repress any urge to refer to them as my “animal companions” or, God forbid, my “fur children.”
chicken wrapped in nori and cooked in a water bath by a chef who trained at Le Cor- don Bleu. Or, perhaps, by the $75 tasting menu (owners get free sparkling water or mimo- sas with that).
keep dog loonies from getting even loonier.
And it’s been my experi- ence that a dog will eat just about anything with equal pleasure. Up to and including my hearing aid.
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