Town Crier Articles

You may have seen this on the NTRA website Notices page:

 

“PET MAINTENANCE & CONTROL:  The NTRA Board asks that New Town residents "Be a good neighbor and don't allow your dog to damage lawns and shrubs in New Town.” 

 

This should actually go a step further because dog urine while you can’t pick it up contains high concentrations of nitrogen and salts. The sheer volume of repeated concentrated spots burns the grass by dehydrating the roots through osmotic stress.

 

But it also needs to be said that often, some, not all, dog owners, while walking their dogs, let them run into people’s yards, sniff, and pee and that’s just not right. Homeowners actually own their private property and work in their yards and flower beds where Fluffy and Fido just peed, and well, that again isn’t neighborly! Now this author loves dogs (and cats) but when a dog owner lets their dogs onto private property, where they don’t belong that creates a problem and it’s not neighborly!

 

Common areas are also another concern by many homeowners. While they are for everyone’s common use, it doesn’t mean they are for Fluffy and Fido to make it their domain for peeing and well, pooping. By the way, thank you for cleaning up after them, but if other homeowners want to use the common area for badminton, frisbee, well anything like that, your neighbors and their guests certainly don’t want to have to worry about what was left there! And maybe they don’t know until it’s too late. Ewwww! Overuse also invites other critters to these areas who are not as sophisticated as your fur babies!

 

So please respect your neighbors and both private and common areas and please, curb your dog. Fyi, the legal term “Curb your dog” means by the street. And check it out, if you don’t know, there is a great free dog park at Kidsburg/Veterans Park. Enjoy your summer!