[AnAmericanMother]

Wow - it's a fur piece from CHI to GA . . . in more ways than one.

Around here, the market tends to take care of this sort of problem. The people with problem dogs go live in a dump with the other problem tenants, responsible dog owners live in middle-of-the-road places (or rent a house with a fenced back yard - you can actually find one pretty cheap), and the high-end folks rent one of the really expensive chi-chi places where they don't allow dogs OR children.

[wmfights]

"Wow - it's a fur piece from CHI to GA . . . in more ways than one."
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In the high density parts of Chicago, you don't see much grass other than at parks or in the parkway between the sidewalk and the street. The phenomenon of the dogs in these areas is new. It really started up about 20-15 years ago when the suburban kids began moving to the city. More and more landlords are like myself where we have thrown up our hands and said no more, NO PETS. So the "dog people" as we call them are either in condo's or less well maintained buildings.

The dog parks were created to try and keep the dogs off the baseball/football/soccer fields that the kids use. The dog owners seem to think that children rolling around in dog urine and feces is okay. Even though these parks are marked, no dogs, the yuppies seem to think it doesn't apply to them.