Dog Dazed

With all the talk around around the Council table of dog parks, dogs in Moir park, dog doo and so on, this article from Ann-Marie MacDonald may interest some:
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/dog-dazed.html
The article begins:

Canada’s dog population has doubled over the past decade. And, with 84 million dogs now sharing public space with human beings across the continent, conflicts over canines are breaking out all over urban North America. As boomers age and millennials stall on starting families, our demographics are going to the dogs. There are now more households with dogs than kids, and that means that the canine has clout. Otherwise intelligent and reasonable human beings turn rabid when anyone criticizes their dog or attempts to limit his freedom.  Non-dog owners, forced to defend their increasingly limited turf, howl in protest.