Dear fellow dog owners, and everyone else who walks, hikes, travels respectfully through urban, rural and wild spaces: we have much work to do. There is a segment of the human population that seem to need their decks of cards topped up, or their knives sharpened.

Walking my dog yesterday I came across five dog Poop Bags that somehow did not make it to the conveniently placed park garbage cans. Three were at the can itself – one on the lid and two on the ground nearby. One of the other two was tossed into a neighbour’s hedge, and the last one had simply been dropped on the sidewalk.

A person who is less intelligent than their dog should not be allowed to own one. Surely in this day and age we should know where to put our garbage, our recycling, our compost, and our pet’s poop! Speaking of which, surely in this day and age if we saw a freshwater lake filled with Trumpeter Swans and the sounds of myriad wildlife coming from the surrounding verdant fields, we would celebrate it. Nope. Some humans want to fill that lake with construction waste. Maybe they see a different kind of green.

Yep, the same kinds of humans who don’t know where to properly put their dog shit, would probably not understand the complete and utter stupidity of destroying a restored greenspace. In the next municipal election we have the choice to recycle them, or put them in the garbage. We all get composted one day.

The way I see it

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*Image from Dr. Seuss