No Leash For Dogs...Bring In Leash Laws For Kids

Go to your local park early in the morning and you will probably see dogs running off leash and socializing and playing with other dogs but take a closer look and look at the damaged trees, overturned garbage cans, graffitti, etc. and the message might be that city parks need to increase their patrol of parks at night and leashing teenagers.

Bark on parks stuck in dark
Proposed rules to ease tensions dogged by silly socialist ideas, like taking your poop home
By SUE-ANN LEVY

In their dogged attempts to consult with, license and tax everything that moves in the city, Mayor David Miller and his socialists are poised to put the bite on yet another target: Toronto's 250,000 canine inhabitants.

The Millerites are looking at new rules for dogs and their human caretakers who roam many of the city's 1,470 parks and parkettes.

In fact, public consultations will be held all this week to hear what people have to say about a new People, Dogs and Parks strategy.

At the heart of the strategy is the question of how to deal with off-leash zones for dogs and their owners in the 32 mostly-midtown Toronto parks that have them now and in parks where dog owners wish to create new ones.