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Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains

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Link: Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains

...the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised...

To be fair, the nanny-state totalitarians at MotherJones are principally irked at dog owners, and want Big Bro to crack down on all of us. Because reasons. Speaking for myself, I'd rather live in a world full of dogs, than suffer the company of even one lefty loser who preaches the gospel of MotherJones.
 
When Charlie was a puppy his farts had approximately the carbon footprint of a coal plant.
 
Where I live if your dog is seen chasing deer it's liable to be shot. Everyone understands this.
 
Where I live if your dog is seen chasing deer it's liable to be shot. Everyone understands this.
I grew up on a farm. A strange dog on a farmer's property usually met a bad end.
 
I think the point of the article is being missed here, which isn't to paint dogs or their owners as villains but to raise awareness on an often-overlooked issue with some pretty reasonable suggestions for how we can address it:



 
I could not care less about MotherJones, but to the bolded; I'd rather live in a world full of dogs, than suffer the company of even one magat.
 
I like dogs.
It is not the dogs themselves I have a problem with, it is more some of the owners who do not seem able or care how well they train or treat their dogs.
Many of the suburbs in the metro area I live in have started putting restrictions on the number of dogs one household can legally own.
I do not have a problem with that at all.
 
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To be fair, the nanny-state totalitarians at MotherJones are principally irked at dog owners, and want Big Bro to crack down on all of us.
Did you intentionally lie, or did you just not read the actual article you yourself linked to? At no point does the article(which actually comes from The Guardian) call for any actions whatsoever, and this is as close as it gets(right after going on at much greater length about the benefits of dogs):


Wow, so radical....
 
I totally agree. The neighborhood I just moved from in Georgia has many families who had way too many dogs and they let them run loose in the streets. Animal Control was a constant presence, because there is a leash law in that county, and these poor babies would frequently get hit by cars. Just horrible. There's a serious problem when the county has to limit the number of dogs per household, but that problem is a direct result of lack of owner responsibility, it's certainly not the fault of these dogs.
 
A bit late to the game.............

 
Is this going to be the left's next 'shove down your throat' campaign, complete with endless preaching, talking down to, derision of those who disagree?
Oh please do proceed. Add cats as well.

I grew up and there always was at least one dog in the house.
A house is just a house, put a dog in it, and it becomes a home.

The famous quote 'Dogs are some of the best people I know' is true.