The media are prone to spin an issue for the flavour of the month, and this month seems to be "Police Brutality Month". Will it ever be "Unchain Dogs Month"? Where are the letters from all the people who we know wrote to say how wrong it is to chain a dog?

The real story is first, that the VPD itself tells people to get a guard dog. Second that the City and the SPCA will not prevent this treatment of dogs that makes them dangerous and gets them killed, in this case by the police, but also by the City pound. In either case City taxpayers pay to kill dogs that had no choice in how their lives were lived, who suffer and die, and who sometimes get free at last and attack someone, usually a child.