Yup, that’s pretty much the case. Still, dog owners simply cannot allow their dogs to roam/run wild, whether it be vicious pit bulls, friendly goldens or what have you. There are leash laws for a reason.
dog owners simply cannot allow their dogs to roam/run wild, whether it be friendly pit bulls, vicious goldens...
There, that’s better...
Back in the 80s and into the 90s we had here a crime-free neighborhood- no breakins, no muggings,nothing like that. We also always had two or three largish dogs that had the run of the neighborhood. They walked all about the neighborhood and knew who belonged here and who did not. Parents also used to teach their children about dogs and very few were locked up in fences. Sometimes a child would bet nipped, never seriously if he manhandled a dog. Parents put bandaids on and scolded the kid for abusing the dog. At night a couple of times someone from elsewhere would be in the neighborhood trying to get through a window and would encounter one of these dogs. He would not continue his work and would leave the area quickly. By 2002 or so some younger folks moved into the neighborhood and, besides trying to force all the neighbors to buy newer cars and paint their houses all to a particular color chart they were horrified that DOGS were visible in the neighborhood and cried loudly to the county commissioners. The dogcatcher became a regular sight in our neighborhood and soon we had no more dogs that were not caged up in fences and those did not bark-barkers were also removed. We started to get gang types selling drugs on our blocks and houses and cars get broken into regularly now. The dogs prevented that stuff. Now the police write reports on it. We took care of the drug dealer phenomenon ourselves but we can’t really replace the dogs.