Lake Hiawatha ??? Look, but don???t touch???
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May 09 17:42 UTC
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Casey -
There are off-leash dog areas in this city, I know it for a fact. If you
want one at Lake Hiawatha or Nokomis or whatever, that's fine. I don't have
a problem with that. But take it up with the Parks Board. It seems like
you're trolling for drama here. There are leash laws in this city for a good
reason. I, for one, don't want to be accosted by someone's ill-mannered
off-leash dog as I bike through there, or while my kid plays on the nearby
playground. You may be a good dog owner who maintains control of his dogs
and cleans up after them, but let's fact it, this isn't a perfect world, and
you know plenty of people *aren't* as good about it as you are.
Speaking of cognitive dissonance, why is there a disconnect between common
sense and your latest post? If anything, your story about the puppy falling
through the ice makes my point for me. If that dog had been on a leash as he
should have been, he would not have fallen into freezing cold water and you
wouldn't have had to risk your own neck to rescue him.
-Don Stremski
45xx 34th Ave S
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Charles R. Bowman <> wrote:
> No way...My 14-year-old labrador
> retriever passed away a couple of years ago after many swims in that lake.
> It's one of the reasons to live here
> with a dog, particularly one with webbed paws. I still remember the first
> time he swam there, quite
> inadvertently. I was with my neighbors and their lab, Rooney. Mine was
> only a tiny puppy (his name was
> Valor). We were walking along the shore on the golf course in winter
> (risking another fine?) when Rooney
> appeared over a hill, but Valor was nowhere to be seen. Running back we
> found the poor little pup had fallen
> into the water where a pipe entered the lake and melted the ice, his two
> front paws just hanging on the ice. He
> loved that lake. Let's get real. Why is there such a disconnect between
> the law and common
> sense? Have we lost our sense of something basic which mollifies the law?
> Have we lost our will just to have
> a fun place to live?Casey BowmanMinnehaha Creek
> Mugwumphttp://minnehaha-creek.blogspot.comOn
> Fri, 9 May 2008 08:43:41 -0500 "Kate Kampa" <> wrote:> I
> don't know how they are
> connected but it will result >in a fine if you have your dog off lease and
> swimming in >the lake. A
> friend of ours received a $280.00 fine as a >result of letting their dog
> swim in the creek.> >
> -----Original Message----->From: Steve Basile [mailto:]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008
> 1:16 PM> To: > Subject: Re:
> [Mpls-StanEric] Lake Hiawatha ??? Look,
> but >don???t> touch???> > > I recently rescued a dog from a rural shelter
> and will
> >soon take him for> lake walks. We always carry pet waste bags and pick up
> >after him on>
> neighborhood walks.> > Can you please explain how pets dipping in lakes and
> >uncollected pet
> waste> washing into lakes are connected? Thanks.> > Steve Basile>
> > > >> From: Willy Lee <>>> Date:
> Thu, 8
> May 2008 08:41:26 -0500>> To: Minneapolis Standish Ericsson Neighbors
> Forum>>
> <>>> Subject: Re: [Mpls-StanEric] Lake
> Hiawatha ??? Look, but
> >>don???t touch???>> >> I appreciate that dogs like to swim, but pet waste
> is a
> >>huge factor in E.>> coli levels in urban lakes. (I'm not saying your dog
> >>poops in the
> lake.) If>> you dog needs a swim, please consider taking them to the
> >>river dog park>>
> where the ecosystem is better able to deal with it.>> >>
> http://www.town.williston.vt.us/mgr/environ/petwaste.htm>>
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