Simply limiting the number of hours a dog can be left outside, or prohibiting it altogether, would end using dogs as outside guards (where almost 100% of them are wanted). That is what AAS asked the Mayor and Council of Vancouver in June 2001.

Watching and timing is easy, and proving that in court would also be easy.

Most of Vancouver's yard dogs are kept by immigrants who really don't want a dog in the house. If they were told that they can't keep a dog in the yard, almost none of them would get a dog.

Immigrants also keep dogs in garages. If the SPCA stopped saying that is okay and started to seize garage dogs and used the media to publicize it, then that would stop too.

The City and the SPCA have both dodged this issue far too long.

Another report in two months? No one has asked the only oganization that tells the truth about the yard dog problem in Vancouver for any input.