Local Resident Wants to Form Dog Run Committee

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Before I sent my dog Lou off to live with ma dukes in suburbia, I took her to J.J. Byrne Park a few times. It was here that she enjoyed running in circles and lazily chewing on woodchips. This was years back, and I found it to be a perfectly adequate place for her to play with other dogs. I had nary an issue.

FiPS writer Jacqui recently wrote in with a gripe that she has with the park. For her, it's transformed from a dogrun to a place where children run wild through clouds of thick pot smoke. She wants to make a change.

I was innocently complaining to anyone within ear shot the other day about the dog run and how it's become a petting zoo where breeders drop their kids off. Someone had the nerve to call me out. That someone works for the stone house conservancy and challenged me to take on establishing a committee to raise funds for and manage the dog run. Though it's under the "management" of City Parks with Stone House peeps as stewards, it needs a committee to fight over such important issues as:

• Should the sign be worded differently so its extra special clear that unattended kids aren't allowed?
• Is the pot smoke wafting in from the hand-ball court of a high quality?
• Is clay easier to get off your clothes than pebble dust?
• Why do "small dog owners" have so much to say about the world?
• And how our dogs fulfill our meaningless lives more than children, or some other cliché breeder baller nonsense.

So if you're down and not completely insane, email me and we can establish this committee and have a dance-off against other local committees.