walking the dog

Where I live, it is still small enough that many people with dogs get out with them in the morning and evening and walk them. This is good for the people and for the dogs and, in general I don't have a problem with it.

I do, however, take issue with the portion that don't clean up after the dogs. You see, in our area, there is no law or ordinance requiring the owner of the dog(s) to clean up the poop. I actually don't have a problem with that either. We have enough laws already. There are those, that would walk their dog on public property and not clean up after it. I do have a huge problem with this.

You're probably thinking that I contradicted myself. However, I did not. You see, there is an assumption, among self absorbed idiots, that if there is no law prohibiting an act, that it is ok to do it. This kind of thinking results in more laws. The person walking the dog assumes that its ok to leave the dog's crap there because there is no law that prohibiting the action.

So, let me help the self absorbed idiots of the world understand something about the rest of us. No law is going to stop us from running over you in a vehicle! Surprising? The law does not stop us from putting a foot up your a$$, either. More surprising? What then, you may ask, does stop us from doing these things? --We actually recognize that these things are not the right things to do, even though they might help you understand the error of your idiot ways.

For those of you who walk your dogs in public and clean up after them, because it is the right thing to do, I salute and earnestly thank you.

For those of you who don't clean up after your dogs, get a bigger freakin' yard and walk your dog there, there is nothing, short of incredible self restraint, actually stopping us from removing you from this world. That dog and all that it excrements is your responsibility!