Even cute dogs and kids need to follow the rules. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Ocean Grove, NJ lifestyles.
Setting: Eileen is looking out our window onto Delaware Avenue. A woman is walking her two dogs on our grassy strip. Eileen steps out onto the porch and speaks to the dog walker.
E.: Could you not let your dogs do their business on our grass?
DW: I’m cleaning it up.
E: The urine kills the grass.
DW: I’m doing the best I can.
E.: That’s why you have the dogs on a leash.
DW: Well, it’s not really your grass–it belongs to the town.
E.: I am responsible for the grass.We grow the grass and we take care of it.
Below is a link to a related article in Blogfinger, 2015.
Editor’s note: The ordinance which governs this matter says, ” No person owning, harboring, keeping, walking or in charge of any dog shall cause, suffer, permit or allow the dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, street, sidewalk, passageway, road by-pass, play area, park or any place where people congregate or walk or upon any public property whatsoever, or upon any private property without the permission of the owner of the private property.”
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