Nelsonites ever so righteously coming awake: this time - a man and his constitutional dog-or-not.
If you do have a dog - an honest look at why you got one may be an evolutionary step. Instead of hyperventilating over Sparky's rights as a member of your family on Baker. I mean..... really!
If you don't have one but - like many - tut-tut anyway against the no-dogs-downtown bylaw just because facebooking gives meaning to your life - why not call Mom instead.
And all consider the following:
Local Dogs Downtown: "Owner's" Job
Sparky lies around in an unhealthy-for-dogs situation: shop, office. A couch-potato thing - without tv - all day, most days. Sparky gets sluggish - loses his spark. Infrequently taken out for a pee/poo. Poo may be picked-up - may be! - pee not so much! Downtown. Back alleys.
Local Dogs Downtown: "Owner's" Convenience
You're too lazy to give Sparky the exercise you quite well know he needs - so you schlep him along downtown instead. On your terms. Pretending.
Tying-up Sparky somewhere - with all the variables tying him up and leaving him on his own for some time present. Energizing - not! Depending on how long you're gone - a must pee/poo-right-now! will have unpleasant consequences. For Sparky: he can only do it within the range of his leash. And for people: stepping in it. While you're on your 2nd Americano elsewhere!
Local Dogs Downtown: More Reasons
1.
You feel guilty over leaving Sparky alone at home.
2.
Leaving him alone at home means major damage to your stuff.
3.
Sparky drives the neighbors nuts with his never-ending howling out of loneliness/frustration/boredom.
4.
But your backyard is not secure enough to keep him contained: he may get out, wreak havoc. Having to round him up is a time-consuming bummer you don't need when you get home!
5.
Barking at anybody/anything for attention - when tied-up outside for the day. The mail-carrier scenario.
The inconvenient truth of Sparky!
So Why Have A Dog In Nelson?
It's understandable that a senior or person with disabilities has a basic dog: company.
While it's less understandable why an active Nelsonite - a family yet - has a dog, with all issues above inevitably to arise, when the cute-cute-cute! puppy turns into a long-term commitment with a dog's ever-growing (ever-expensive!) needs.
It's irresponsible and selfish to sort-of make a (big!) dog fit into an urban situation for the "owner's" amusement: for starters - soon after birth - a life-changing surgical modification performed on Sparky! The tail has to go as well! And parts of the ears! After his kind was possibly overbred to begin with: punched-in nose and/or crippling skeletal aberrations.
Dogs - when treated reasonably well - are obedient and unconditionally affectionate. Obedience as a given combined with unconditional affection rarely found in humans: a dog often is called man' best friend.
If you think this is so - you've got issues around relationships and control!
I mean - people also describe their life going to the dogs: treated worse than a dog in a dog-eat-dog world! Nothing best-friend there!
Also see post
Nelson Going To The Dogs
5 Feb. 2013
Local Dogs Downtown: Animal Control Bylaw
If/when dogs are allowed again - 3 most basic rules:
1.
All dogs are leashed at all times and registered/tagged.
2.
Fees for this registration and its annual renewal (handled like a license-plate) are so high that people go from isn't-he-just-the-cutest impulse to must-we-really-have-a dog deliberation. This cuts down on dogs thus dog-issues in Nelson - while still maintaining revenue-flow.
3.
Color-coded tags - easily visible - automatically checked by Bylaw Officers, while they do parking-meters. Tickets given without fail for dogs off-leash, unattended turds, outdated (wrong-color) or no tags.
Fines - raised substantially with repeat-abuse of the rules - are clearly defined and fixed within the amended bylaw!
Woof!!! Grrrrr!!! Woof!!!
Get over here! NOW!!!
Woof!!! Grrrrr!!! Woof!!!
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