PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 17, 2022
I am disappointed by another intemperate ad hominem argument against limiting unleashed dogs in South Portland (“Letter: Don’t shut out S. Portland’s dogs,” Feb. 12). Unfortunately, it typifies the behavior of those advocating for access to the city’s only public beach, a narrow stretch just a half-mile in length, by unleashed dogs whose numbers reach into the hundreds. Attacking those who disagree, with name calling and dismissal of their reported experience suggests an unwillingness to face the inconvenient truth. If a designated dog park would be “unsanitary, unshaded (and) grassless” because of too many unleashed dogs, why is it preferable for our only bit of sandy beach to be? ~ Andrea Thompson McCall, South Portland