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‘NO EXCESSIVE BARKING’: A Chevy Chase dog park divides the rich and powerful
Washington COM-Post ^ | August 29, 2019 | Jessica Contreara

Posted on 08/29/2019 1:12:09 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

Everyone knows there’s a problem with Chubbs.

Dirt is smeared across his face. His tongue is rolling out of his mouth. He’s surrounded by signs that say “NO EXCESSIVE BARKING.”

But the 5-month-old golden retriever does not know how to read. At a dog park in one of Maryland’s wealthiest suburbs, he spends this sunny August morning rolling on his back. He opens his mouth, and then, he does it.

He woofs. Twice.

“CHUBBS!” four humans around him yell, trying to stop him from doing what dogs do — just not in Chevy Chase Village this summer.

Here in this community of the rich and powerful, where the average household income is $460,000, barking is the subject of a ferocious (fur-ocious?) debate — one that has divided the two-legged one-percenters for nearly a year.

The drama began last fall when the village spent $134,000 to turn a muddy triangle of land into a park where pups could run off-leash in a fenced refuge. Chase tennis balls. Sniff one another’s butts.

*SNIP*

At the center of it all is Elissa Leonard, chair of the village board and wife to Jerome H. Powell, who is also a chair — of the Federal Reserve. In recent months, her husband has been under attack from President Trump, who appointed him but blames him for the tanking stock market. “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?” the president tweeted Friday.

*SNIP*

"Where’s the democratic process?” Martin asked in an interview last week. “Why is the 1 percent deciding for the 99 percent?

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: barking; doggieping; dogpark
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First World Problems of the Rich and Famous, LOL!

This gated community, with million+ dollar homes all voted FOR the dog park and said OK to the $134K it was going to cost to build. Now that it's there and being used, a handful of non-dog owners want the dogs to stop barking because it's 'ruining property values.'

*Rolleyes*

P.S. Trump's Fault!

1 posted on 08/29/2019 1:12:09 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Dirt is smeared across his face. His tongue is rolling out of his mouth”

Ah. A Steelers fan.


2 posted on 08/29/2019 1:13:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“NO EXCESSIVE BARKING.”

What, precisely, is excessive barking?


3 posted on 08/29/2019 1:14:54 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I was about to respond. then I looked at the bottom and saw that you had a P.S. trump’s fault.

My question to you would be, Has the Left ever came up with anything that was not Trump’s fault?


4 posted on 08/29/2019 1:15:05 PM PDT by sport
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPyrL3ntWYc
How Slinky Dog does it.


5 posted on 08/29/2019 1:15:21 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Chubbs is in a better place now...

6 posted on 08/29/2019 1:16:22 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: EEGator

I don’t know for sure but I have two doxins that probably qualify.


7 posted on 08/29/2019 1:17:23 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Dogs need their own backyards, not dog parks or HOAs.


8 posted on 08/29/2019 1:18:16 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Dog park is for dogs. People should not live near dog parks, if barking bothers them.


9 posted on 08/29/2019 1:19:13 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: NohSpinZone
"I got my hand back Happy..."


10 posted on 08/29/2019 1:20:39 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: bgill

Agreed. I would never take my dogs to a dog park.


11 posted on 08/29/2019 1:20:39 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

No excessive barking from the dogs or the celebrities?


12 posted on 08/29/2019 1:21:32 PM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: Innovative

I enjoy the chaos of dog parks.


13 posted on 08/29/2019 1:23:00 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Dogs can’t bark but humans can yell?


14 posted on 08/29/2019 1:24:43 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Never take your dog to the Chevy Chase Dog Park.

15 posted on 08/29/2019 1:25:57 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Little dogs seem to bark & bite the most.
Napoleon complex I guess.


16 posted on 08/29/2019 1:25:58 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Chevy Chase is NOT a ‘gated community.’ It’s an old established neighborhood with large houses and large yards, lots of upscale shops and restaurants nearby. It was one of the first ‘suburbs’ of Washington DC but anyone can drive up and down its streets at will. It’s not unlike old ‘burbs around any city in the US. (Scarsdale/Grosse Pointe, etc) Exclusive, expensive, but not gated.


17 posted on 08/29/2019 1:26:01 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Meatspace

Poor guy probably kept up for a mile or so...


18 posted on 08/29/2019 1:26:43 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Meatspace

:) Great movie.


19 posted on 08/29/2019 1:26:57 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Omg.. a neighbor, who has since moved away, had two dachshunds.. They were the Screaming Banshees of the neighborhood.


20 posted on 08/29/2019 1:30:15 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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