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Dogs like being off lead. Running around is sort of their driving motive.

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A lot of dogs also like to bite people, or scare birds, or scare other dogs….

Just because something likes to do something does not mean we should let it do it.

A few dogs are so aggressive that they bite people. Usually the owner is the problem.

So the owner should be on a leash?

(coming back to this I realize that laws and rules are what put people on leashes.)

And this would mean the owner who don’t put their dogs on leashes are also the problem.

Also

“More than 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year in the United States”

That’s a lot…

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/pet-owners/dog-bite-pre...

You clearly don't understand how dogs function. The sweetest dog could bite someone if it is scared, startled, in pain, sick. They can be unpredictable and most people do not know how to read a dog's body language. I say that as someone who loves and has dogs.

Most dogs that don't mean harm won't actually break skin, for them it's a warning rather than violence.

This is not what people mean when they talk about people getting bitten by dogs.

we weed out bad owners by requiring all dogs to be leashed, if you don’t like it move to a more rural area or don’t have a dog

The owner is the source problem, but the dog is the immediate problem.

Dogs can be unpredictable, and they're powerful animals. They could start fighting with another dog, run away and endanger themselves, do their needs in someone's front garden, eat something dangerous, or someone else walking by might be scared of dogs. I have seen occurrences of all of these situations.

It's really irresponsible to walk a dog unleashed, especially in populated areas.

In my experience the probability of dog poop getting scooped by the owner goes down if the dog is off leash.

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