Domestication sounds loopy

Editor:
In response.to the recent letters from James Legros and Delaine Placsko, what gives with the idea that solving a problem is just a matter of correcting the behaviour of some irresponsible people?

That is most of the remedy, but there are always too many idiots. A better solution might be limiting access to famously potential problems in the first place — not eliminating dogs, but requiring an agreement to know and accept responsibility for a sensitive, too often loud and dangerous animal that has as much need for caring society and freedom of expression as any human.

Half the dogs I see are going nuts with boredom and anguish cooped up all day in backyards, lonely and strained with lack of exercise. Dogs seem to be the 'original party animals — joyfully social and immensely athletic. Trapping them alone in yards away from their native species is cruel.

Training dogs to not bark seems unfair. Who are we to squelch a being's main mode of vocal expression? And the problem of dog excrement is a no-brainer, just like the owners who let it happen.

Proposing the dedomestication of canus familiarus sounds loopy. It's bad owners with too many dogs who perpetuate more noise and animal torment.

Steve Murdoch
Roberts Creek