Give me a break. Dog owners can walk their dogs in 99% of public spaces, with a vanishingly few spaces disallowed in certain hours. And somehow this strikes you as a "war on dogs"?

> Dog owners can walk their dogs in 99% of public spaces

My point is that I can't walk my dog in those public spaces.

In that small sample of very specific public places, yes, you are restricted. So go walking literally anywhere else.

So, get in my car and drive to a public place where I can walk my dog?

Makes perfect sense.

It is actually fairly common to go hiking with dogs.

Yea, and I take my dog hiking almost every weekend. Not sure what I should do the other 5 days a week though. The comments here are kind of classic though... just proving my point.

Unfortunately. Going hiking with dogs hurts the delicate wildlife. Wild animals as well as free-roaming farm animals are very stressed out by the pure presence of these dogs, let alone by being chased. Especially near larger cities this puts enormous stress on those animals. Turns out, you can't have it both ways, being an animal lover and being a dog lover...

Dogs are completely forbidden during those hours? Or only off-leash is forbidden?

Dog always need to be on a leash.

Pretty hard to round up sheep that way.

Especially at the beach.

'round here if the sheep are on the beach they've fallen off the cliff .. that's a whole other carcess of worms to deal with :(

No cliffs at my beach.

Realistically, if your dog needs walking you are a bad dog owner. Under this definition most dog ownership is bad.

It means it lives in a confined space not meant for a dog.

Dogs are for farms not cities.

You're thinking of a larger dog. This is a small dog (Bichon Frisé), with the temperament of a cat. Probably wouldn't survive long in the wild.

Plenty of larger dogs are couch potatoes. Take your Newfie or Great Dane for a couple km and they're happy to snooze for the rest of the day.

Plus dog walks aren't just for the benefit of the dog.

Open your front door and let's see if they prefer the sofa.

A dog that loves your house is like the old guy in Shawshank Redemption that only has a life within the jail.

If the dog was intelligent, would it still protect you from intruders? And if it didn't, would you still keep it around?

If the dog was intelligent and it was truly part of your family, would you pay for its college tuition? Or do things you would do with an adopted member of your family like inheriting your house? Or it would be more like a slave that is only there to defend you?

So, in the end, it is all just abuse. You kidnap an animal, then restrain it, neuter it so it cannot be aggressive, discipline it to adapt to an unreasonable and unnatural standard of cleanliness and behavior, etc.

Your dog likes you because you took away its family and essentially marginalized it so that it is forced to bond only with you. And also because of artificial selection for those traits. If it was aware that it was kidnapped and forcibly sterilized it would never like you. You are just abusing a lesser form of intelligence.

It still does not belong in a human habitat no matter how much you want to make it a thing.

A dog has to be among their own species and have a dog life. Cover large areas, sniff around, spread their scent, interact with other dogs, etc.

In a human house, living in isolation among humans that have unreasonable expectations, a dog life simply sucks.

Where is that wonderland you live in? Around here there is only regulation that dogs cannot go unleashed on specially labelled public parks, such that they do not leave the paths. Many of those parks have playgrounds, public orchards and so on. But, as nobody enforces that, basically each time I take a walk there is at least one dog owner literally shitting (or, having their dog do so...) on that regulation. Same at supposedly dog-free lakes meant for human swimming. To me it looks like there are not a few bad seeds, but the majority of seeds are bad.