By Heather Mack, Bay Nature
It’s well-known that San Francisco is a city of dog owners. And since few urbanites have yards or the time to adequately exercise their pets, someone has to (so to speak) let the dogs out.
Professional dog walkers make their moolah off of pent up pooches. San Francisco’s decision to curb the enterprise starting this summer went through without a hitch, but the same cannot be said for the federally owned Presidio, which is adopting the city’s commercial dog walking rules. An environmentalist group says the rules don’t go far enough to protect the park’s sensitive habitat and is instead calling for severely restricting commercial dog walking in the Presidio.
“What’s happening right now is rampant chaos and anarchy as far as pet usage of the park,” says Peter Brastow, founding director of Nature in the City. “Addressing this is at the top of our agenda right now.”
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