Pet Owners Shouldn’t Have Been Ambushed at Dog Park
Pet Owners Shouldn’t Have Been Ambushed at Dog Park
Editor,
Regarding the article “Like Kindergartners, Dogs Playing in Close Quarters can Spread Coughs” (Feb. 27):
Does anyone know the author of this anonymous advice column? I don’t think I have ever seen an anonymous medical advice column before and I’d love to hear the reasoning behind that.
But my main question is: What “deep-thinker” approved animal control showing up at the grand opening of a dog park to ambush patrons without their tags? And how is this not a news story when animal control ambushes people in this way?
How many people were caught in this ambush? What were the fines?
If you want to make dog parks safer, enforce a registration process via electronic access cards and configure the park to have three (two for large dogs) enclosures.
That will have a much greater impact than having some overzealous bureaucrat show up at the grand opening to prosecute the very tiny percentage of dog owners who happened to show up at the wrong place and at the wrong time.
We should be striving for “even” enforcement of laws instead of sporadic enforcement that puts the entire cost on a very tiny percentage of the total scofflaws, especially in instances like this where that would be very easy to accomplish and also serve a greater purpose.
Thankfully most public officials can figure this out for themselves and that is why this is not being done in other cities.
Bill Zardus
Hollister
