Like most people, I do not break the law unless I decide
that particular law doesn’t apply to me. For example, the leash ordinance at
our local parks and beaches. And,
like most people, I do not flaunt any particular law as an act of protest or civil
disobedience; I only do it when I think I can get away with it.
Some of the guests at Little Pup Lodge have their parents’
blessings to run off leash at the beach. We go very early, usually 7am, to
avoid other dogs and humans, particularly those who wear badges. Imagine my
surprise as I walked up from the beach this morning right after 8am, just as an
animal control officer walked down with a big, shiny citation book clutched in
his hand. Had he come 10 minutes
earlier, I would have been several hundred dollars poorer.
We dog-activists often rant about how unfair the leash law
is. Secretly, I think it’s only unfair to me. It’s more than fair for the
yahoos who can’t control their dogs, the tourists who won’t clean up the poop
and youthful offenders who find their unneutered pit bulls ever so much more
entertaining than the rest of us.
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