This suxes. Here in Vancouver, we had two dog parks; if you count 5 acres of dirt with a cyclone fence around it and NO trees a 'park'.
In spite of the horrid conditions, both parks were busy from sun up to sun down. Literally every day, all day, you could go to these two parks and find at least 30 people with their doggers. People mostly got along, and mostly cleaned up the poo.
The 'family' parks where dogs are not allowed, are empty. All the time. Occasionally you'll see a mother with a toddler playing in one, but usually that isn't even the case. These 'family' parks are lush. Grass everywhere, picnic benches, trees galore, water fountains...yo u name it, it's there. And yet, these parks sit empty and unused.
I can't seem to figure out in what way MY tax dollars, as a big paw owner, amount to less than other people's tax dollars. We big paw owners are really the only people who want to take full advantage of the parks, we pay our taxes, and we are deprived of the use of OUR parks.
Our government doesn't own the parks/waterways/forests. WE the PEOPLE own these areas. We pay for them with OUR tax dollars.
This issue gets me so riled up.