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Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade
Another park taken over by downtown residents as a dog park. Dogs allowed to urinate and defecate freely on the grass and in flower beds. The lawns have been ruined by dog urine. Idiot owners ignore the leash laws and throw balls for their dogs. We are supposed to watch on admiringly as these people wreck the parks paid for by our taxes. It's time someone started writing tickets for these selfish imbeciles.— April 14, 2010 9:08 a.m.
San Diego off-leash citations
I have a solution to the dog problem. It seems that people who own dogs are happy to lavish lots of money on their pet for grooming, special food, vet bills, so why not simply have a license fee of $100 per dog per year and use the money to create dog parks? The money can also be used to repaint lamps, hydrants, and trash cans that dogs urinate on and pay for all the replanting that has to be done when dogs urinate on grass areas and dig up flower beds. It can also be used to pay for all those poo bag stations that my taxes currently pay for. Each dog can be made to wear a colored tag on their collar corresponding to the license year. Traffic wardens can be given authority to issue tickets to owners with dogs not showing the tag. If 200,000 dog owners complied out of the city's estimated 338,000 dogs, the local government would gain $20,000,000 in extra annual revenue and those of us not addicted to living with an animal would have our tax burden reduced. A few exempt tags can be issued to the elderly on social security for one dog only. Of course, we'd have to round up and destroy all those strays whose owners really don't care about them enough to pay $100 annual fee, but that would be a temporary problem. Everybody would be happy. Dog owners would get their parks and non-dog owners wouldn't have to keep paying for the damage.— April 13, 2010 1:44 p.m.
Amici Park
Although this is not a dog park and multiple signs clearly say that dogs should be kept on a leash, local dog owners have taken over the park. They let dogs run free and make the park unsafe for children. The park is right next to a school, but selfish owners let their dogs defecate all over the park, causing a health hazard. Authorities make no effort to enforce the leash rule.— April 13, 2010 1:22 p.m.