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Show It's a dirty job clusively within the bounds of Park City. Farmers frequently refuse to tag their dogs, or keep them at home. "Or, they will tag them, but they let them run lose." If a farmer is having problems pro-blems with dogs getting in their livestock, any dog running runn-ing lose is going to be suspect. But regardless of where the problem, is, or what the problem pro-blem is, the truly remarkable thing about the whole animal control issue is that all to often- the owner never sees himself as wrong, or responsible-but always prefers to blame the law, and the officer enforcing that law, for the inevitable result of his failure to comply. The Animal Control Ordinance Or-dinance became law at the request re-quest of county residents. If the majority of county residents do not want the law, action should be taken to abolish it. If the majority of county residents do want the law, then the courts should enforce it. In any cae, owners should recognise there responsibility. responsibili-ty. If not to their dogs, certainly cer-tainly to their neighbors. Lashing out at the law enforcement en-forcement officer, when they are in the wrong, only demonstrates their total lack of understanding. ' 1 -A f - r, -If , , i It ' '' x l '' ' r ' ' 1 Barry the law. The law is tohave the animal properly vaccinated, licensed and not running at large. The frustration is that very often, the citation is dismissed dismiss-ed in the J. P. Court, and the dog continues to run at large. - The problem is not ex- |
