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JAMESON AND GUINNESS RULE
At a 4th of July gathering, a dog-loving host nixes moving her dogs aside when a guest-offending spouse asks, sparking a clash over who calls the shots.
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The 4th of July party came to a stop over two German Shepherds and a simple request to put them in another room.
A 33-year-old woman had opened her home to friends for the holiday, and for her, the house belonged just as much to Jameson and Guinness as it did to her. She called it "their house." So when one friend arrived with a relatively new spouse, the dogs did what they always did: walked up to say hello.
The host had met the spouse only once before, briefly at a restaurant, and this time, she says, neither the friend nor the spouse acknowledged the dogs at all. That already rubbed her the wrong way. "Literally everyone else that showed up said hi to my dogs. Like all 20 other people," she later said.
For a while, the party went on. The dogs were on the couch when Guinness drifted over toward the couple. That was when the spouse spoke to the friend, then gently pushed Guinness away and asked the host to put the dogs in another room. The request was specific: they did not want the dog bothering them during the party.
The host did not budge.
She backed her dogs immediately and told the couple, "i'm sorry, but this is Jameson and Guinness's house, you need to deal with it or leave." She added that her dogs "live here and they don't get put away for anyone," and said, "If you just pet them, they'll leave you alone."
The conversation didn't last long after that. The couple decided to leave.
Later, the host stood by what she had said. "I told them they don't call the shots at my house about my dogs," she said.
Around the rest of the guest list, the reaction split down the middle. Some friends thought it would have been no big deal to put the dogs in another room for a few hours. Others thought the host was right to make her position clear and let the couple walk out if they couldn't handle the dogs being around.
In the end, what had started as a casual holiday gathering turned into a very public house rule: Jameson and Guinness stayed, and the couple left.