7 - Sunday, October 2, 1988 - North Shore. News MAILBOX ‘World is not a toilet for pets’ Dear Editor: While I sympathize with dog owners’ difficulty in finding areas to walk their pets (Dog Walk Needed and Give Dog Owners a Break, letters, Sept.14), I feel much of their problem is of their own doing. As the parent of small children, 1 have on many, many occasions watched as dog owners look the other way while their animals defecate not 10 feet from where the little kids are playing, not just in open areas but in playgrounds and school yards. I certainly don’t mind sharing our parks with well-mannered dogs but I don’t think I’m being unrea- sonable about not wanting to share these areas with large, smelly piles of faeces. I’m sorry to say that in the few years I’ve lived on the North Shore I have never seen a dog owner pick up afte: their pet. (I’m sure some do but they certain- ly must be a small minority.) Dogs are wonderful creatures to share one’s life with, but the owner must also accept the responsibility of picking up after them. Until they realize that the world is not a toilet for their pets, I see no alter- native but to prohibit them from more and more public areas. Jan L. Beers North Vancouver 988-6321 Kenneth J. Baxter Lawyer Dog owner responds shelter to have it stitched. I have yet to see a dog dropping food wrappers and breaking bottles. Yes, it is annoying to step in dog excrement but it doesn't cost $150 to wipe it off. Please, North Vancouver City Council, don’t make dog owners social outcasts. And dog owners, let us take some of the responsibil- ity and pick up our dogs’ dropp- ings and not let our dogs roam around out of control. 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