Here is Jill Rosen's story about a bill making its way through the Maryland General Assembly bill that would allow dogs to hang out at restaurants -- on patios, sidewalks -- not inside. There's a (sporadically enforced) law against having dogs on restaurant property, inside or out, but I see dogs at restaurants all the time.
Check out the comments under Rosen's story.
Of course there's the commenter who uses the phrase "nanny state" and the commenter blames everything on City Hall. But there is plenty of outrage besides.
And I think only one thing could explain the LEVEL of outrage in some of these comments.
They are written by cats.