To the editor:
Re: “Dogs of war unleashed at Trout Lake,” April 30.
We don’t live near Trout Lake, we live next to Edward Crawley Park. We both like dogs, often more than their owners. We used to walk daily through this large, fine, now quite natural park, which used to be the city of Vancouver dump. It is now almost impossible to walk there, since some kind of interaction with dogs is nearly unavoidable.
There are on- and off-leash areas marked, but they are routinely ignored by the dog owners or multiple dog-walking companies, trucking up to eight dogs in at the time.
Dogs like each other. They like getting let off their leashes and running loose among each other. Dogs would like to play in “gated communities.” The on/off-leach areas in most parks are mostly totally ignored by the dog owners. Let’s face it, if there is no enforcement of a rule, it will be ignored. That seems to be human nature. So, you Trout-Lakers: I suggest you truck your canine to Edward Crawley Park, where your pet can roam around at will and you can toss your doggy-poop into the brambles.
Woof! Woof!
Peter Reusch,
Vancouver
