A western Pennsylvania city is considering banning dogs. Some of the officials in Beaver Falls believe that part of the problem is that larger dogs are sometimes left tied up to parking meters by their owners. This would really scare me if I was minding my own buisness and a dog started barking at me by the parking meter. Officails say, "Some of the dogs are as big as ponies". Another concern is the owners don't clean up after their dogs leaving a big pile of dog poo everywhere for people to step in and track into other places.
"It’s not that anybody on the council doesn’t like dogs," City Administrator Steve Johnson told Pet Pardons News. "I like dogs. We certainly don’t want to discourage people from having a dog. It’s just that many dog owners are being irresponsible and ruining things for everybody," Johnson said. They are all not so sure that getting rid of dogs would necessarily help. Many people who have heard about it think that it is a waste of time. I personally think we should have the right to own a dog but if it does use the bathroom somewhere it needs to be cleaned up and I would ban people from tieing the dogs up to a parking meter. That could be a little unsafe. If the ban does happen it won't happen until later in the year. In the passage it says some people are for it where as some people think this sort of attention should be on drug scenes and prostituion.
I can relate to this because it's just like parents telling their kids that they can't have a dog unless you take care of it and clean up after it. I think these people who are leaving their dogs on the side of the road and not cleaning up after them should remember what their parents told them as kids and be responsible.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/17/western-pennsylvania-city-considers-banning-dogs-from-downtown/
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