[lovsthosebigdogs]

I am moving full time to TG this spring and I know that where I live now my dogs use the yard for pottying before we walk, but just like people, sometimes even after you use the bathroom at home you have to go again after you are out a while. It happens to dogs also. So I bring along bags and clean up. Always. I don't intend to let my dogs walk on anyone's lawn, but I do, or did, intend to just walk my dogs where I walk, in the streets or on paths. I didn't think I would harm or anger anyone. I thought I would just be walking. Period. Now I don't know what to think. Never anywhere I have traveled with my dogs or lived has walking around ever been an issue before. I never thought it would be now. To an 'outsider' as I guess I still am, you have no idea how silly all of this seems. Didn't the people who are complaining about dogs walking here and there come from towns where dogs were out walking with people? What am I missing? I cannot agree with not cleaning up after dogs or walking on people's lawns; that is just plain unacceptable, but walking with one's dog is just one of life's simple pleasures and not that uncommon in most American towns.