Caravan by Stephen Goldin

Author:Stephen Goldin [Goldin, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“The traditional American view of the pet dog as a benign companion is undergoing a change,” says Dr. Bruce Max Feldmann, director of the pet clinic at the University of California at Berkeley…

Feldmann said in an interview that the problem stems from the fact that an increasing number of the nation’s 40 million pet dogs are becoming “free-roaming dogs” whose owners let them run wild or no longer want them. “Some people are so alienated that they identify with their dogs and want to give them the kind of freedom they’d like to have but can’t,” he said.

“More than 40 diseases in the United States can be transmitted from dog to man,” Feldmann said. “And there’s been a rise in the number of dog bites. More than one million dog bites are reported annually and at least as many go unreported. And there are increasing reports of a new menace—the free-roaming dog pack.

“Pet fecal litter also is unesthetic and a nuisance as well as a public health hazard,” he said. “For example, the 500,000 owned dogs in New York City deposit about 150,000 pounds of feces and 90,000 gallons of urine each day on the streets.”

—Los Angeles Times

September 20, 1974

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