If you want to understand what is wrong with this country, you only need to look at how grocery stores and restaurants enforce restrictions on non-service dogs. Or don’t! There are usually posted signs, but it is clear from talking to employees that enforcement is not just discouraged, but actually forbidden.
Everyone is afraid of confronting pet owners who bring their animals into these establishments. Citizens who attempt to rebuke these individuals are usually verbally assaulted.
Why do we have laws that we are unable to enforce? Why does the clear public right to clean and sanitary establishments for food play second fiddle to the desire of some individuals to flout laws for their own personal comfort? What has changed that lets personal convenience trump public health? If we can’t even enforce these kinds of common-sense restrictions, how can we expect to solve more complex problems in this country?
— Paul Templin, Encinitas
