Editor:
I’m really fired up right now. I found an old article in the NOW about thoughtless dog owners letting their pets poop at the local cemetery and I thought I was the only one seeing this.
I visit family grave sites at the Forest Lawn cemetery on Royal Oak in Burnaby. I come there to remember, and to try and get over my grief at the loss of people I loved.
It’s infuriating then to watch people walking their pets through the cemetery because it’s not a public park. But that’s nothing compared with the anger I feel when I see those people letting their animals poop and pee all over the graves of dead people.
Are you freaking kidding me? In what world is this adult behaviour?
And then some of those same people don’t actually pick up the poop. They just waltz away likes it’s nothing.
I’ve had words with some of those people and they just shrug and say they don’t have a baggie to pick up what their dog has deposited.
That’s no excuse.
They just don’t seem to understand the significance of the place they are taking their puppers for a walk. Like I said, there are plenty of parks and trails in Burnaby to take your dog for a walk. Don’t invade people’s grief by bringing a dog for a stroll and then insult people’s memories with urine and feces.
Just gross.
Trevor Allen, Burnaby
