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Does anybody here ever think about business LIABILITY and trying to maintain insurance for their business??

Red Sauce and the other bars already have enough liabilities to worry about and insure, considering the drunks they serve and have to cut off before they go out and kill somebody with their car or golf cart while DUI. They certainly don't need the liability of dog fights under the table as I told about in other threads on this topic, and they certainly don't need the liability of a patron's dog biting an employee or other patron!

Dog mauling on Lincoln Road worries pet owners and cafe servers

With a dog biting a waitress fresh on their minds, pet owners and servers weighed in on who is responsible when people take their canines to cafes on Lincoln Road.

BY AVA RIVERA
ARIVERA@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Tom Tabor and Ross Guedry were having lunch with their best pals, Harry and Beau, Tuesday at an outdoor cafe on Lincoln Road.

Everyone was well-behaved. Tabor and Guedry had salad. Their goldendoodle and cocker spaniel nibbled on some doggie treats.

It was just another day on one of South Florida’s most dog-friendly streets.

Still, an underlying tension filled the air as dog owners and cafe workers discussed a horrific scare that happened on Labor Day weekend when a dog mauled a 26-year-old waitress.

“It’s terrible what happened, but people are responsible for their own dog’s behavior. Some dogs are more gentle than others,” Tabor said. “Part of the reason we come down here is so we can walk the dogs and they enjoy it.”

Tabor, Guedry and their pets were lunching at the Cafe at Books & Books.

Alvyn Lopez, a waiter there who gave the dogs a treat, says he’s careful when he approaches dogs.

“You have to know how to treat dogs,” he said. “You can’t just approach a dog any which way you want. If you expect nothing to happen to you, you’re living a fantasy,” Lopez said.

“People want to blame it all on the dogs, but the owners have some responsibility.”

It’s unclear what set off the cane corso breed that ripped into waitress Amy Calandrella’s lip on Sept. 1. When the Van Dyke Cafe server bent down to give a dog a bowl of water, the dog bit her lip. She needed more than 300 stitches and underwent more than seven hours of surgery to repair the wound.

The dog was released to the owner and no citations were given, according to the report by Miami-Dade Animal Services.

The owner of the dog, Teri Guttman Valdes, did not answer her phone Tuesday. Valdes, who lives in Coral Gables, is an attorney who works in labor and employment law and has represented police officers.

Although Lopez, the Books & Books waiter, hasn’t seen any dog vs. server incidents, Books & Books waiter Dan Mitchell said he has been bitten twice.

When a Dalmatian bit Mitchell, the owners quickly left and didn’t apologize. The second time, another dog bit his pants and left a small hole.

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