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Talk about misplaced priorities.






Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | A man's best friend is his dog? Are you barking?


I have always detested the way in which dogs foul the environment. I am baffled by the capacity of many (but by no means all) dog owners to assume that everybody shares the same deep regard for their mutt as they do and I am upset by the tendency of many of these same people to rank a dog's happiness, rights and quality of life as just as important as a human's.

When I lived in south east London, it was impossible to take the children to the park without finishing the day scraping poo off their shoes.

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