Blog: Curb Your City's Dogs at a Dog Park

I overheard two moms talking the other day about summer sports camps. One was planning to put her kids into a county-sponsored rec program, and the other hadn't committed yet. The reason? The fields her kids had played on the previous summer were also heavily used by dog owners. "It's not just the poop," said the mom, "it's the fact that the place just stinks."

And so we come to the great dilemma that polarizes communities: to allow dog use or not. Disclosure: I'm the owner of three great dogs, all rescues. I have nothing against dogs, nothing against exercising dogs and certainly nothing against dog owners. But I'm also an athlete who uses fields and I'm a technical writer on issues related to sports facilities, and I can tell you that dogs are very hard on fields, even if their owners clean up the, uh, solid matter.

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