I find it interesting that Kathryn Kinnerk (“Dogless beaches,” Voice of the people, June 5) feels the beaches will turn into “filthy and dangerous places” should dogs be allowed on them. It’s quite obvious Ms. Kinnerk hasn’t been on a Chicago beach on an early Sunday or Monday morning before the Park District crews get there. If she had, she would have seen that dogs could never come close to creating the kind of damage that people do. Mounds of garbage abound, glass bottles (many of them broken) lie in the sand, half-eaten food crawling with flies and dirty diapers left to bake in the sun, empty cans, discarded clothing and condoms, and that’s only part of it.
With the miles and miles of beach that this city is so blessed with, I really can’t think of one valid reason why we couldn’t find a tiny section of it that could be shared with our dogs.
