To the editor:
I have noticed now that it is warm again for some odd reason some dog owners in Thunder Bay seem to believe it is OK to allow their pets to run at large.
I am writing this letter to let them know it is notT. I have two large-breed dogs that are always leased. I have recently found that there are a lot of dogs not leashed and have been running up to my leashed dogs.
The owners that are not leasing their dogs are not following the law need to understand that dogs on leases feel threatened when unleased dogs approach them.
I often walk at Chippewa Park, on the 25th Side Road tree farm, Marina Park and many other public areas and have to go out of my way to avoid these dogs that are not leashed.
I need the people who are not leashing their dogs to understand that when my large dogs protects me because your dog has ran at us (all be it may have been to play) that my dogs do not see it that way and you are in the wrong.
Then there will be another court hearing to review who did what and in the end I will win because you are breaking the law. I will defend my large leased dogs for they cannot speak for themselves and will have done nothing wrong. If you are not in an off-leash dog park (which by the way we do not attend so no worries there) then leash your dog.
Your dog does not know better, but as the owner you do.
Marty Schrader,
Thunder Bay
