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There are far too many dogs in this city and they have ruined many aspects of it. It is impossible to walk down the street in most neighborhoods without seeing dog feces, which also dominates our parks, including our natural areas. I run on Bernal Hill every day, and it smells like dog feces on warm and hot days due to the proliferation of dogs on the hill. Hardly a day goes by without my wife and I being disturbed by dogs barking. Dogs have also ruined our natural areas: on Bernal Hill I see them digging into the hill, and chasing and harassing wildlife.
The solution is to enforce a strict requirement that all dogs be licensed by impounding and euthanizing all unlicensed dogs, and all dogs that are caught off leash in areas where they are required to be leashed. This program should be paid for by the dog owners, who should be heavily fined if caught disobeying these laws. Finally, professional dog walkers should be outlawed, they are a huge problem. If someone can’t or won’t walk his or her own dog, (s)he certainly doesn’t deserve to have one!
Jeff Hoffman
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April 20th, 2007 at 10:03 am
And while we’re at it, we can just euthanize all the homeless people we find irksome.