Chevy Chase dog park excessive barking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friends and I discussed this article at length at dinner tonight in the neighborhood.

The article was HILARIOUS and amazing and awful at the same time.

Poor Chubbs! (What a name)! He's only being himself yet they put up signs about excessive barking. Bringing in a behaviorist to asses his barking? My God. What is this world coming to! And the poor poodle "who shall not be named!"

The worst part was the people calling the cops because people were parked LEGALLY on the street where they preferred their landscapers to park. HONESTLY!

I am a rule follower more than most I know but this Village dog park business is simply over the top!

Dog parks are often contentious, because well some people don't like dogs, and the noise and smell they bring. That's life.

[Anonymous]

Those people should move to the wilderness and live off the grid then. Dogs are a part of normal life. As are ambulances, cop cars and cars honking horns. Noise = life.

I'd rather live next to a dog park and all of its smells than have to listen to people having conversations on their speaker phones in public. But to each his/her own.

[Anonymous]

My favorite part was the insinuation that the ill-behaved dogs came from DC.

[Anonymous]

I’d be furious if I purchased a nice home in a quiet neighborhood and then there was a public dog park or kennel positioned adjacent to my property. It’s not really reasonable.

A dog park should be subject to the same laws as the local ordinance where the other people reside. E.g. if a dog can’t bark more than once in each 15 minute interval or whatever without being fined in one of the nearby houses, then that should apply for dog parks too. Unless the parks are far away from residential properties and those types of rules aren’t in effect.

I don’t live in that area, but I live somewhere else without large yards and I can’t have the pets I’d like either, because I just don’t live in a suitable area for it. People need to accept that having a pet is not a right when it infringes on others’ rights, and I think it’s pretty clear that people should be able to enjoy peace and quiet in their own home save for things like regular traffic noise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the part about hiring the epidemiologist to study the pattern of barking.

That was amazing and hilarious!
I love my dog but I have sympathy for the neighbors who don’t want to hear all that barking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d be furious if I purchased a nice home in a quiet neighborhood and then there was a public dog park or kennel positioned adjacent to my property. It’s not really reasonable.

A dog park should be subject to the same laws as the local ordinance where the other people reside. E.g. if a dog can’t bark more than once in each 15 minute interval or whatever without being fined in one of the nearby houses, then that should apply for dog parks too. Unless the parks are far away from residential properties and those types of rules aren’t in effect.

I don’t live in that area, but I live somewhere else without large yards and I can’t have the pets I’d like either, because I just don’t live in a suitable area for it. People need to accept that having a pet is not a right when it infringes on others’ rights, and I think it’s pretty clear that people should be able to enjoy peace and quiet in their own home save for things like regular traffic noise.

+100.

Just when I think entitled dog owners can’t disgust me anymore, they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the insinuation that the ill-behaved dogs came from DC.

+1 DC has tons of dog parks, most of them nicer than the one in CC Village. If folks are arriving at the Brookville Dog Park with DC plates, I'm guessing at least some of them are actually employed by CCMD residents and "take dog to park" is part of their responsibility as a domestic employee.

I mean, beyond the obvious dog whistles involved in talking about "DC plates," that is.

[Anonymous]

Pulitzer Prize for this reporter!

[Anonymous]

Don't sleep on the reporter's Twitter feed about this story: https://twitter.com/mjcontrera/status/1166694144171040769

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer Prize for this reporter!

Maybe as a humor article. So many local stories ignored (graft and incompetence in local government), but they focus on rich people's squabbles.

[Anonymous]

One unanswered question from the article - how did Louie become the unofficial mayor of the dog park?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those people should move to the wilderness and live off the grid then. Dogs are a part of normal life. As are ambulances, cop cars and cars honking horns. Noise = life.

I'd rather live next to a dog park and all of its smells than have to listen to people having conversations on their speaker phones in public. But to each his/her own.

+1 Seriously. We went out to dinner recently, and a woman seated by herself at the next table was obviously a realtor negotiating a transaction over her cell phone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't sleep on the reporter's Twitter feed about this story: https://twitter.com/mjcontrera/status/1166694144171040769

+1 Fabulous comments and pics!!! Thank you for my early morning laugh!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the insinuation that the ill-behaved dogs came from DC.

Mine too. Plus all the titles, positions, careers of the humans made it that much better. Lol

[Anonymous]

This article made my week. Absolute perfection.