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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Equal Rights Issues

It seems here in Minnesota our hygiene oriented Northern European forebearers determined that dog waste is a serious menace. Fine. Signs thoughout parks and pathways throughout the state proclaim the responsibility of dog owners to clean up after their pets. Fine. So taking Baron for a walk recently down a forest pathway we practically had to slalom the route avoiding horse apples at every turn. In recent years a plague of gnats connected to these horse leavings is at the epidemic stage. Now where is the hygene and yes.... justice in all of this???
Just one new crises in twenty first century America.

10 comments:

  1. Poor dogs!! Yes, I agree, it should be justice for all.

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  2. Interesting! We are in a small unincorporated town, so most people let their dogs run loose. Guess where they like to poop? It's not in their 'own' yard, you can bet on that!

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  3. ps My word verification was teaske!

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  4. TB, start a movement. Look how the Tea Party has taken control. Get on TV, lobby your congressmen. Make those horsey people take responsibility. Fair is fair!
    Marnie

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  5. Must have something to do with riding a horse up toward the front end, but walking behind a dog. The first leads to oblivion.

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  6. Oh, I don't know... I see the horse drawn carriages and they have a poop catcher pouch behind the horse. Why would that not work just as well on a trail?

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  7. At least Baron didn't eat or roll in it!

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  8. So much for humanity's vaunted reasoning ability. <:\ My sympathies. In my area, one of the major trails has a separate, parallel horse trail to avoid this kind of thing.

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  9. Totally agree: at least most dogs make an effort to get OFF the path to crap. If there were more dogs using the path, though, I'll bet those horse apples would "disappear"!

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