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Outbreak of annoying dog owners along Centre Street in JP
By adamg on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 9:04am
William is fed up with owners who tie their dogs up outside as they go into JP Cafe or City Supply and Feed for a leisurely repast - because the dogs start barking like nobody's business, annoying everybody else:
... IT IS NOT OKAY to leave your dog tied up barking for like 30 minutes while you have a Trucker's Breakfast or grab a coffee and a salmon bagel. You are violating one of the basic rules of the social contract. The Right To Quiet Enjoyment. ... Would you leave your child tied to a post screaming outside a restaurant? ...
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oh come off it already. I
oh come off it already. I walk down centre street 2-3 times per day, i've seen all of the dogs he talks about, and I can't ever recall a single time I saw one barking. While I agree leaving it tied up alone for super long periods is not the nicest thing you can do to a dog, this guy whining about his peace and quiet is a little ridiculous. Did the dog totally drown out the peaceful sounds of busses and trucks lumbering past, sirens, horns, people shouting at friend across the street -- the stuff that takes place 1000x more frequently than a dog barking for 5 or 10 minutes?
Would you leave your child tied to a post screaming outside...
Actually, now that you mention it, I wish more people would.
My brothers and I would always behave ourselves in nice restaurants and my parents would often even get complements from other patrons for how well behaved we were in such a place. At the time, I had no idea what was so great about just acting normally. I mean, it's what we did. Then as I grew up and we'd go back to the same places and see other people bringing in their kids and watching them crumble bread on the floor, run around the table, and just be a general detraction from the meal/atmosphere, I started to realize that the average person was oblivious to their kid's horrific behavior and manners and that I was lucky to have the parents that I did. Now, I'm the one who sees the family with the 3 well-behaved kids and goes over to thank the parents for being responsible in how they raise their kids.
The same goes for dogs in the city. You can train a dog to wait patiently and keep its yap shut when it's not running in a field or something. This is a city and a responsible dog owner knows how to raise their dog to behave itself. Unfortunately, those people are less frequent than the ones that have no idea what they're doing raising a dog....or a child.
This. From what I've been
This. From what I've been told, when I was little I acted up just once in a restaurant (about age 2?) and was hauled out of there right away. Now when I see kids screeching and rolling around on the ground when I go out to eat, I can't help but get extremely irritated, since I mean...I always behaved as a little kid, save one event, and I damn well learned my lesson then.
Sources of Noise
The comment about children reminded me of the cinema the other night when both the parents and their kids need reminders that discussing the movie while it is playing is a sure way to get kicked out. Yes - both parents and their kids. Dogs on leashes barking endlessly? Cruel to the dog to leave it in such a state; abusive of the public space to allow the nuisance.
But abusing the public space is the norm. Cars with subwoofers played so loud the vibrations can be felt on the sidewalk. Cellphone yammerers flexing their vocal cords at full voice everywhere! Cars that have horns which scream every time the door locks are engaged.
Folks playing their MP3 players at ear piercing levels on the T...ad infinitum.
The problem is that we are creating a horrifically noise world (remember the radio broadcast at South Station). Any and every place of quiet is polluted and corrupted with an endless stream of noise.
I read recently the theory that God whacked Sodom because it was so noisy. The Divinity had enough of people who were so loud that even Heaven was polluted with noise.
The car alarms of Sodom
I wish He'd smite the jerk across the street.
Streets that sound like parking lots
You must live near me.
Man After My Own Heart
I'm an old fart, so I can actually recall true peace and quiet in DORCHESTER when I was growing up, even into my teens. Now? I defy anyone to find a neighborhood in Boston where you can enjoy even 5 minutes of uninterrupted quiet on a street.
Blah blah everything was better before blah blah damn kids blah blah but it's true.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Dog lovers?
(I know I won't be making any friends with this but here goes anyway...) These are the same "dog lovers" who voted yes on question 3 to stop dog racing. In the meantime their dog sits at home 9 hours a day with, at best, one walk by the dog-walker out in the polluted Boston air along a dirty city street. I'm a dog lover but I don't own one because it's cruel to keep one in the city. They belong out in the suburbs or the country, not in a 700 s/f condo in the middle of a metropolis.
A lot of people treat their
A lot of people treat their dogs as though they're accessories, not living, breathing animals.
So true
I wish some of my neighbors, who leave their dogs in the house, or in the yard, barking all day would take them down to JP & let them bark there for awhile!