Kansas City, Missouri, parks officials kicked an advocacy group in the teeth this week.
The foot-to-face came in the form of a response to a question from The Kansas City Star's "Watchdog," an element in the paper which is sadly unaccompanied by an image of a doberman wearing a spiked collar. A reader asked the Watchdog for an update on the logy effort by the city to create more dog parks.
Sharon K. Henry of Kansas City wanted to know if the proposed dog park at South Oak Park at East 83rd and Main "would be done before my dogs reach old age and die."
Parks official Jimmi Lossing said people needed to stand up for the park to happen. Lossing told the Watchdog that the department's policy guidelines for off-leash dog areas expect "a private advocacy group to step forward
and collaborate with the city to raise money to build and maintain any
new dog park. That has not yet happened for South Oak Park."
Left unsaid was the fact that a group of dog owners had advocated like hell for a different site in the same part of town.
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You're absolutely correct. The "dog agenda" is out of control. The dogs have more rights than people. What about a fitness area for kids and adults. Don't let the "dog agenda" go any further. Keep your parks clean and free of piss, crap and barking. A handful of people have found a money making industry in dogs and are constantly pushing it on everyone. Tax money should be spent on taxpayers' needs; not animals. Enough already! Kansas City don't give in to the non-sense.
Oh My God! Sunnyside Park! Where will all the mom's in the neighborhood bring their little babies, where will the kids play baseball, softball, soccer, and basketball, and the teenagers like to play basketball too! And then what about the old boys that walk their little fluffy dogs in the morning, and the plus size ladies that enjoy a walk around the park in the evening, and those moms that bring their toddlers in the afternoons, and the married couples that finally found an excuse to get out the house for a nice after dinner walk to the park, and what about the property value of everybodies homes in the neighboorhood? That's alot to have to give up and sacrifice for Rover, no matter how cute he is. People first, animals second.
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