From Dominic Gonzalez: 'The way dogs treat us is entirely dependent on how we treat dogs. Indeed, we treat San Antonio’s dogs better than we ever have, but our story requires much healing.'
Today, we are in a chapter in which we are slowly finding the light, and we are being asked a question that sics a modern city against our sense of humanity: Are dogs antagonists or protagonists?
When dogs are antagonists, we act as if they are in the way of our goals. We tether and cage them. We make them fight each other. We let them multiply until their population becomes unsustainable. We neglect them until they perceive any stimulus as a threat. We let them run rampant, allowing their fates to guide them toward destruction.
However, when dogs are protagonists, our story gets brighter. People who are afflicted by emotional distress can find respite in their companionship. K9s find drugs and guns, and our streets become safer. Children learn to become caring adults by nurturing living things. Families lead fulfilling lives, and dogs prosper with them.
We can and should become the champions for our friends whose voice is just a bark and whose history is intertwined with ours. We must tell our public officials and our neighbors to choose the story in which dogs are our protagonists because a story that ignores its most loyal characters is no story at all.
Ordinances alone do not change the story for the better — some even make things worse. For meaningful change, we must consider bigger policy reforms. Such reforms entail
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