Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
Dog Owners Who Live
I'm Apartments Are Hit
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
If you will be kind enough to allow
me space in your publication you will
see how the other fellow looks at the
dog" problem from all the different
| angles that the average person should
! do in the land of the free and the home
of the brave.
In the first place, are lovers of dogs
! considerable for that dumb animal? Let
| us look at it from this angle Suppose
you owned a dog and lived in an apart
ment and you live on the floors above
the first, without any fresh air so to
speak for the animal, that he should
have and would give him If you lived
in the country or had nice large yard
to let the dog play and really get some
thing out of his drab existence. So
the dog lover is net very human from
my point of view If he keeps a dog
cOoped up in a stuffy apartment, and
only takes the dog out for few min
utes during the day, which absolutely
does him mere harm than good, because
the little pure air he gets is wasted. be-
cause he gets so little of 1t. There are
thousands of dogs right here in the city
living that kind of life, and the worst
part of it, the owners really think they
love that dog by keeping him penned up
and all that 1 can see it makes his life
think they are a lover of pet so they
can coddle and make over him. If
had the making of an ordinance in
Washington. no dog or cat would be al
lowed in any home, unless they had
yard large enough for the dog to play
and he would have to have dog house,
SO he could get the fresh air that he
deserves and should have.
The worst feature about the real dog
l,oi, OF If N,r4
from a humane standpoint, but from
the idea that he is my dog and 1 can
do anything l wish with him, no matter
whether it is good for the animal or not.
Just to say that he or she has a hun
dred-dollar dog or thousand dollar
dog. and If he gets sick I will see that
he gets doctors care. but by those dog
lovers keeping their animals penned up
in a hot apartment shows to me that it
is only their sense Of ownership, not
that they want the dog to have some of
the comforts that he is supposed to
have, and the one that lives in a de-
tacfed house or lives where the dog can
have lots of air and sunshine is the
right kind of dog lover, and the others
are only make-believes.
In conclusion will say that the rea-
son that the dog that is cooped up in
an apartment and makes lot Of noise,
by jumping and running and especially
if you happen to live on the floor below
(and really care enough for a dog to
not own one If you are living in an
apartment building) probably lots more
than the so-called dog lover he or she
only makes people that live near them
angry, and with the radio going at the
same time and not toned down, unless
you are considerate of your neighbors.
Sure makes nice noise and especially
when you Go not own one yourself be-
cause you feel that the other fellow does
not like any secondhand things,
whether it be radio music or what not
H res to radio-less and dogleSs apart
ment houses, and the quicker they stop
renting TO the radio bug and the dog
lover the more business the apartment
house owners will get and really salts
fed oneSAwill live with them.
FELIX A. URY.