Baltimore leash law debated on radio
Baltimore city’s leash law – and the new $1,000 fine violators of it face – was alternately blasted and defended on WEAA’s Marc Steiner Show last night as four guests and numerous caller-inners voiced...
View ArticleAiredale airs her views in letter to editor
Finally, the Baltimore Sun is giving dogs some say. Either that, or it has laid off so many people it has to turn to dogs to provide content. In any case, the once-great newspaper printed a letter to...
View ArticleLeash law hearing is tomorrow
Reminder: A Baltimore City Council committee takes up the subject of leash laws at a 9 a.m. meeting in City Hall tomorrow (Tuesday). The hearing, before the council’s Judiciary & Legislative...
View ArticleSay Chow (or ciao) to those $1,000 fines
Baltimore’s $1,000 fine for letting a dog of its leash is, effectively, a thing of the past — if even that. A city council committee yesterday — saying the amended penalty was passed by mistake —...
View ArticleScary, smelly, germy: The scourge of joggers
I had hoped it wouldn’t come to this. But after a little opinion piece that appeared yesterday in a Baltimore Sun feature called Second Opinion – one that opined all dogs should always be on leashes...
View ArticleCity Council votes to lower leash law fine
Baltimore’s City Council tonight approved lowering the fine for leash law violations from $1,000 to $200 for a first offense. Subsequent offenses would carry fines of $400 and $600. A city council...
View ArticleOff Da Leash!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scores of dogs were unhooked from their leashes and frolicked in new-found freedom today as the long-awaited Locust Point Dog Park was officially opened – the first city-built dog park in Baltimore....
View ArticleDowntown Baltimore squeezes in a dog park
It’s tiny, and it’s wedged between busy downtown streets, but a third dog park is soon to open in Baltimore — a joint effort of The Downtown Partnership and the city. It’s only a tenth of an acre —...
View ArticleDo San Clemente’s dogs deserve a beach?
The push to create a dog friendly beach in the California town of San Clemente — on a trial basis, and only for a few hours a day — goes before the city council next week. The council is considering a...
View ArticleSan Clemente nixes letting dogs on beach
Boo, hiss and a big thumbs down for the San Clemente City Council, which, at least for now, has rejected a proposal to allow dogs on a small piece of beach for a few hours a day. The council, while...
View ArticleWill dog lovers give up on Baltimore?
Anne Madison, an ohmidog! friend and correspondent, provided us with a copy of a letter she has sent to her city councilman, James Kraft. As it so articulately sums up the concerns and feelings of many...
View ArticleSteiner show to discuss city’s leash law issue
Mark Steiner will dedicate an hour of his radio program tomorrow (Tuesday) to the controversy over Baltimore’s leash law, new fines and the lack — at least I hope he sees it as a lack — of dog parks in...
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