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My column this week over on SFGate.com is about one of my pet peeves, people who let their dogs run off-leash in leash-required areas even though those dogs are not under voice control (and often, aren’t even in their owner’s sight):
I happily cede the dog parks to the unleashed dogs and their doggy joy. In fact, although San Francisco has a lot of them already, I’d like to see more - many more. Dozens more. But what I don’t like to see is an uncontrolled dog running loose in an area outside the dog zone.
It’s not so just my concern for my fellow citizens that makes me feel that way; it’s my love of dogs, too. See, I left out some back story: My dog Kyrie is scared of other dogs when she’s on a leash.
Kyrie lived the first eight years of her life in the country, running and roaming [...]