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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By those arguments people shouldn’t live in cities either! Not enough exercise, not enough nature, have to hold our pee while in meetings for hours at a time.

Dogs have evolved to be human companions. They need food and exercise and of course, but mostly they need companionship to be happy. That can happen anywhere.

They make doggy shoes for hot pavement.[/quote]

Some dogs do great in the city. Some really don't and I feel bad for them. All dogs need companionship and a real problem in cities is the number of dogs owned by people who work in offices full time or for much of the week and also travel frequently (in fact in DC this seems like the demographic most likely to adopt dogs, which is wild). Those dogs are lonely, under exercised, often ill-behaved due to inadequate training, and become a real burden on neighbors. They can also become a danger.

Getting a dog when you have a full time job and an active social life seems incredibly selfish to me.[/quote]

Like the recent thread about someone wanting to get and board an unfixed puppy despite knowing they had multiple trips coming up?

Yeah. People don't understand what responsibly having a dog actually means. knowledge tests for licenses could improve that.[/quote]

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