Of Dogs and Beaches

News item: On the popular tourist Island of Cyprus on the Mediterranean, authorities are looking for suitable beaches where people can bring their dogs without interfering with the enjoyment of other beachgoers.

Dogs love to run along the beach. Owners love to take them. There was a time not long ago when dogs and people could run free along the sand.

The dog population grew. Some people didn’t take the responsibility for them. And so today the world’s beaches usually prohibit dogs or confine them to only a small stretch. These stretches quickly become foul smelling and strewn with minefields.

If people would clean up after their dogs, there would never be a problem sharing the sand.

But as my daughter says: “I’m sorry, this is the Age of Poop Everywhere. You want the Age of Personal Responsibility. Down the hall, third door on your left!”

I don’t know where she gets her sarcasm.

Comments

[Miss Trashahassee]

Young'uns says the dad-gummested thangs.

They says young'uns is little copies of ourselveses.

But when mines is actin' up they is little copies of they ol' man.

[Terrier mom]

I was at a dog park recently when a man brought three huge dogs. They made messes and terrorized the other dogs, making the dog park useless for the rest of us.

[jackie]

hee hee...I like your daughter..

[Laura]

When you have governments and organizations basically wanting to take parental responsibility away for things like character development, monitoring what their children watch, read, play, etc it shouldn't surprise anyone that people start to not take responsibility for other areas of their lives as well.

[Coll]

Your daughter is one smart cookie.
Our favourite vacation retreat has a special beach area allocated for dogs apply named Canine Cove. Most of the visitors are so happy to have such an area that they do comply with the poop and scoop rules.

[Cynthia Blue]

If only we had holodecks... and could each have our own pristine clean and beautiful beach, with or without other holo-dogs. :)

[Hannah]

Well, irresponsibility always bring misunderstanding and angry. and that's was very well said by your daughter..

[PuppyDeal.com]

perhaps some really expensive fines, or just like the dog parks have pooper scoopers around, but really we should not be babby sitting people to take responsability for their animals, but something needs to be done so you know that we can hit the beach and not have to worry about steping in dog pop.
Regards

James the puppy master
www.puppydeal.com