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Educate homeless with dogs
Thank you, Mike and Gena May, for bringing up the subject of aggressive dogs in the downtown area and in Community Park. I agree with you on the danger these dogs present.
As a professional dog trainer of more than 18 years in Davis, I often will work with clients and their dogs downtown and we, too, encounter this behavior. It’s scary and I can’t imagine what it must be like with limited sight.
There does seems to be a group of homeless people and their dogs who spend the day and evening sitting on the sidewalk on E Street and they spend the night in Community Park. Their dogs are often off leash and not under voice control.
I would hope that Yolo County Animal Services officers will have read your letter and would start to patrol downtown and Community Park and, at the very least, check to make sure these dogs are vaccinated and licensed and that their owners are reminded that there is a leash law.
I would also like to suggest that perhaps the UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital could do a community outreach and offer free classes to the homeless and their dogs.
Dolores Blake
Davis
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