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5 of the Most Dog Friendly Restaurants in The Country Are In North Carolina

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If you are like me you don’t like leaving your dog at home alone.  They are part of the family and if they know how to act in public, they have had their bath and they are welcome where you are going, why not take them along. Unsure if your pooch is welcome at your favorite place to eat? 5 of the most dog friendly restaurants in the country are here in North Carolina.

North Carolina is home to not one  but five of the nation’s most dog friendly restaurants. The Charlotte Observer lists “The Top 100 Dog Friendly Places To Eat”.  One of them is in Asheville at the  Sunny Point Cafe.  It ranked number ten on the nationwide list.

Brewers at 4001 Yancey in Charlotte came in at Number 62.  Yelp reportedly  searched reviews from all over the country to get pet satisfaction ratings. Yelp wrote this in their August 10 report. Here are the 5 most dog friendly restaurants in the country located here in North Carolina:

Hillman Beer in Old Fort at No. 28; Funkatorium in Asheville at No. 43; Brewers at 4001 Yancey in Charlotte at No. 62; and coming in as our 5th, Boojum Brewing in Waynesville at No. 80

This is directly from Yelp; “We identified businesses in the restaurants and food categories with a large concentration of review mentioning ‘dog friendly,’ then ranked those spots using a number of factors including the total volume and ratings of reviews mentioning those keywords between June 1, 2020 and June 1, 2023,”.

For more information about the 5 most dog friendly restaurants  here in North Carolina check out details from the Charlotte Observer right here.

If you love dogs and we do and want to take them everywhere, you are sure to love country songs about dogs.

Top Five Country Songs About Dogs

With the release of Chris Young’s new song “All Dogs Go To Heaven,” depicting the heartbreak of losing your canine best friend, we got to thinking about what some of the best country music songs were about dogs, and we found some good ones.

Admittedly we were surprised Miranda Lambert didn’t have a dog song as she, along with her MuttNation foundation, does so very much for our canine friends. Miranda does have a song from 2020 called “How Dare You Love,” along with a lyric video that features pictures of dogs. She also performed on the ACM Awards with Chris Stapleton in 2021 for his song about his dog, “Maggie’s Song.” We did, however, find gems from Carrie Underwood, Stapleton, and more than one from Blake Shelton.

Here are our top five picks for country songs about dogs.

  • 5 - "The More Boys I Meet" - Carrie Underwood (2007)

    An early song from Carrie telling who she prefers her canine to the dating scene. The chorus sings, “And, I, I close my eyes / And, I kiss that frog / Each time finding / The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”

  • 4 - "I'll Name the Dogs" - Blake Shelton (2017)

    Blake won the CMT Music Awards’ Video of the Year award for the video for this song in 2018. The song’s chorus includes the lyrics, “I’ll hang the pictures, you’ll hang the stars / You’ll pick the paint, I’ll pick a guitar / Sing you a song out there with the crickets and the frogs / You’ll name the babies, and I’ll name the dogs, yeah.”

  • 3 - "All Dogs Go to Heaven" - Chris Young (2023)

    A great song about losing your best friend. The chorus sings, “All dogs go to Heaven / To spend forever running wild and free, off the leash / I know he’ll probably go before me / Oh, and that’s the day I’m dreadin’ / But he’ll be waiting on me at the gates / ‘Cause all dogs go to Heaven.”

  • 2 - "Maggie's Song" - Chris Stapleton (2020)

    Chris wrote this song about losing his family’s beloved lab terrier dog.

  • 1- "Ol' Red" - Blake Shelton (2001)

    Blake’s version of this song has become a classic and is also the name of his bars in various cities, including Nashville, soon in Las Vegas, and in Oklahoma. The song was originally recorded by George Jones on his 1990 album; You Oughta Be Here with Me. Kenny Rogers also covered it on his 1993 album If Only My Heart Had a Voice. The chorus includes the lyrics, “And the warden sang / Come on somebody / Why don’t you run / Ol’ Red’s itchin’ to have a little fun / Get my lantern / Get my gun / Red’ll have you treed before the mornin’ comes.”

 

Catherine Lane is the morning show co-host and midday host on Country 1037 in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has been with the station for the past 24 years and is a recipient of the Academy of Country Music Major Market Personality of the Year award. Catherine has been on air in both radio and television in the Queen City for 38 years. As a content creator for Country 1037, Catherine writes blogs on local events and restaurants. She also writes about great travel spots and out of the way places in the Carolinas. Anything outdoors, travel, food, animals or the many country artists from the Carolinas.

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