<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hello Connie and Tweeters,<div>Two weeks ago, Sunday in the Seattle Times was a front page article including survey results regarding unleashed dogs in parks. The article continued for two full pages.<div>I believe it is well worth reading for those interested in this topic.</div><div>Does someone have the link?</div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Dan Reiff</div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 19, 2024, at 2:18 AM, Constance Sidles <constancesidles@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Dear all, please see below, if you'd like to send in a comment. - Connie<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elston Hill via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Tweeters] Tell us what you think about unleashed dogs at Seattle parks | The Seattle Times</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 17, 2024 at 8:16:02 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tweeters@u.washington.edu<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elston Hill <elstonh@yahoo.com><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Please send your comments to The Seattle Times which is preparing an article on unleashed dogs in Seattle Parks. My own personal experience is that dog owners are treating the wilder areas in our parks as a place to unleash their dogs.</div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; position: relative !important;"><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style: none; color: inherit; padding: inherit; margin: inherit;"><div><div class="original-url"><br><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/tell-us-what-you-think-about-unleashed-dogs-at-seattle-parks/">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/tell-us-what-you-think-about-unleashed-dogs-at-seattle-parks/</a><br><br></div><div id="article" role="article" class="system exported" style="text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="page" style="text-align: start; overflow-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%;"><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; text-align: start; hyphens: manual; display: block; max-width: 100%;">Tell us what you think about unleashed dogs at Seattle parks</h1><div class="metadata singleline" style="text-align: start; hyphens: manual; display: block; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-top: -0.75em; max-width: 100%;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" class="byline" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; display: inline !important;"><a itemprop="url" href="https://www.seattletimes.com/author/greg-kim/" rel="author" data-mrf-link="https://www.seattletimes.com/author/greg-kim/" cmp-ltrk="Article - Story Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="0" mrfobservableid="e9108530-1fd1-4a81-9c73-1fd2a48408cb" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; display: inline !important;"><span itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; display: inline !important;">Greg Kim</span></a></span><span class="delimiter" style="margin: 0.07em 0.45em 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; display: inline !important;"></span><time datetime="2024-12-16 13:16:20" class="date" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; display: inline !important;">Dec. 16, 2024 at 1:16 pm</time></div><div style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><p style="font-style: italic; max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">Seattle Times staff reporter</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;">Seattle is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-area-ranks-no-1-for-child-free-couples-with-dogs-or-cats/" data-mrf-link="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-area-ranks-no-1-for-child-free-couples-with-dogs-or-cats/" cmp-ltrk="Article - Story Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="1" mrfobservableid="9471e044-1eb8-499c-a506-6c942c80a3b2" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">famously a dog city</a>. If you go to any of its parks, there’s a good chance you’ll see one running around with other dogs or playing fetch with its owners.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">Increasingly, those dogs might be unleashed in areas where the city says they shouldn’t be.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">The Seattle Times wants to know whether Seattle residents have noticed this trend — or if they care. Do you bring your dogs to parks unleashed? Do you walk your dogs on-leash at parks? Do you use the park for other reasons?</p><div data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen707840_236="4211" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen707840_236="4211" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time707840_236="100" data-gtm-vis-has-fired707840_236="1" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen707840_237="4218" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen707840_237="4218" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time707840_237="100" data-gtm-vis-has-fired707840_237="1" style="font-style: italic; max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">Greg Kim</span>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="max-width: 100%;">206-464-2532</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="mailto:grkim@seattletimes.com" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">grkim@seattletimes.com</a></span>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="max-width: 100%;">Greg Kim is a reporter covering homelessness for The Seattle Times.</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Tweeters mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>