YUPPIES = Young Urban Professionals
Usually thought of as single, but
they can be married and even with children
DINKS = Double Income, No Kids
Often thought of as young and gay, but
they can be straight, and even empty nesters.
FENCES
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A fenced bowl is a horrible image.
Where would the gates be?
Endless possibilities of meeting would be reduced to sad worn trails,
surrounded by rusting metal. The perimeter would collect litter and be
home to hard to manage weed grasses.
Fences are rarely beautiful.
Stone fences in the right field settings might add to their landscapes,
but these fences are more about creating arable land (by moving the
stones which would impede plows) than for keeping people or animals out
of or off of the land.
Short hairpin fences can be an attractive decoration in a Victorian
garden, and they send a gentle reminder about boundaries, but do not keep
out squirrels, birds or determined dogs (or people).
Any fence capable of restraining a Doberman would be tall, strong and
ugly.
Can you imagine the length, let alone the expense of a fence for such a
huge perimeter?
We have an oasis. It does not need penitentiary panache.
CHILDREN
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Responsible parents provide the best possible child care.
Whether it is at home or at PIC (or any quality day care) it is expensive
and labor intensive.
Those of us who make time to take our toddlers (I am reaching into memory
here) to the park find it almost laughable that people who profess to
"Love" their dogs, can't spend $25.00 / year to join the dog park or walk
to the 4700 block of Chester or drive to any other appropriate place with
their dogs. For the average toddler, parents spend $200 / week (just for
the day care).
The average dog should be on a leash and able to walk several blocks and
can poop anywhere that a plastic bag is at hand. The average Toddler is
hard to dress (and keep dressed); can run circles around an extended
family but can't walk three linear blocks; is a future adult who needs
guidance not a leash; and is generally enduring a type of potty training
that requires more than a plastic bag.
The average dog can be picked up from the pound with shots and neutering
completed for <$100.00.
The average baby requires gestation or adoption at considerably greater
expense and commitment.
Dogs are nice companions.
Babies are our future.
It is a no brainer... babies, toddlers, pregnant woman, joggers, bikers,
mailmen and seniors should be safe from dogs. Until someone comes up
with something better than a leash, than our current law makes sense and
should be reasonably enforced. If the community wants to permit specific
times that balance the needs of dogs against the needs of children for
"off-leash" play... than I would sign on to a pact gave the bowl to the
dogs between 6 AM and 9 AM. I'm prepared to assume few kids need the
park at those hours and most dogs need to void before their owners leave
for work. I would make my endorsement contingent upon clear signage of
times and strict enforcement of leash laws at other times.
DOGS
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The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of
his tongue.
-Anonymous
> >
>Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are
wonderful.
-Ann Landers
> >
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
-Andy Rooney
> >
We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare.
And in return, dogs give us their all.
It's the best deal man has ever made.
-M. Acklam
> >
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who
are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
-Sigmund Freud
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious
cult.
-Rita Rudner
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If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.
-Unknown
> >
Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back
from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a
cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
-Anne Tyler
> >
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and
get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
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You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look
that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'
- Dave Barry
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
-Roger Caras
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My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
-Unknown
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