To the editor: I admire the elevated consciousness that Nadav Ziv brings to the issue of dog owners going just about everywhere with their pets in L.A.
I’ve labored in a neighborhood hospital for 20 years, and solely previously three years have I skilled individuals bringing their non-service canines to clinic visits. We’re allowed to ask solely two questions: Is the canine a service animal required due to a incapacity? And what work has the canine been skilled to carry out?
It’s not arduous for homeowners to get round these questions. We aren’t allowed to request documentation.
It’s fairly clear when a canine isn’t a real service animal. They wander across the clinic room, their vests typically look soiled, and their homeowners don’t deal with them the best way homeowners of service animals do.
Service animals are crucial to those that profit from them, and changing into one requires a rigorous coaching program. Those that wrongly name their canines service animals diminish the stature of those coaching applications.
As with so many different points, it comes right down to consciousness and treating others the best way we want to be handled.
Linda Marie Randolph, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Whereas Ziv makes some legitimate factors, the accompanying image displaying unleashed canines at Veterans Barrington Park begs for clarification.
I’m one of many early morning scofflaws (and a veteran) who congregates on what we name the “gopher subject” with our free-roaming canines. The Division of Veterans Affairs property is maintained by the L.A. Division of Recreation and Parks, and the seven-acre web site is riven with holes that makes the sphere unsafe for youth sports activities. Aside from uncommon sandlot actions, the bottom lies fallow and beckoning.
There’s an adjoining “official” off-leash canine park usually utilized by canine walkers throughout noon. The group of canine individuals is amiable and accountable as a result of we respect the tacit privilege we’re granted at a venue the place a canine is usually a canine.
Regrettably, proudly owning a canine doesn’t routinely confer sterling character or training upon the proprietor. Consequently, there’s a minority of canine homeowners with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
Gary W. Dolgin, Santa Monica
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To the editor: The query just isn’t, “Why can’t canine homeowners obey the principles?” The query is, “Why gained’t canine homeowners obey the principles?”
People have the power to (that’s, can) obey guidelines. The problem right here is that some canine homeowners select to not (that’s, gained’t) obey guidelines.
I don’t have the reply to why some individuals consider that they’ve a particular standing that permits them to ignore guidelines that have been established to profit everybody in our society. I do know that their egocentric sense of entitlement damages our society.
Jo-Ann Shelton, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: A bit of the Silver Lake Reservoir rim bulges out to develop into what the group calls “the meadow.” For years, group teams labored with the L.A. Division of Water and Energy to finalize the continual path across the reservoir, and with deliberation, it was determined that the general public could be greatest served by excluding canines from the realm.
Indicators clearly state that canines are prohibited, and there occurs to be a large canine park on one other facet of the reservoir. And but, homeowners carry of their canines.
Why can’t L.A. canine homeowners obey the principles? The reply I get after I ask are, “I dwell within the neighborhood,” “I preserve my canine off the inexperienced and on the trail,” and “Nobody pays consideration to the indicators.”
No embarrassment, no apology — simply claims of entitlement.
Dorcas Tokes, Los Angeles