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Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

It isn't safe to go to the parks. Toxic chemicals ruin the air and water. There is vandalism, even crime, and conscientious park personnel are demoralized.

It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.

You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.

Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open grounds of London. I doubt, in fact, whether any person fully comprehends their extent, from any of the ordinary descriptions of them, until he has seen them or tried to walk over them.