Mind-boggling was the realization that the locals were more amenable to park users dumping litter–soda and beer cans, used condoms, papers, plastic bags, discarded fried chicken, and all sorts of other crap–than they were to someone walking a dog.

“Who says a park has to be green?” Grant Cothran proposes that his current favorite “dog park,” Scope Plaza, ought to be downtown’s official dog park.