'NO EXCESSIVE BARKING': A Chevy Chase dog park divides the rich and powerful

[brooklynite]

Washington Post

Here in this community of the rich and powerful, where the average household income is $460,000, barking is the subject of a ferocious (fur-ocious?) debate — one that has divided the two-legged one-percenters for nearly a year.

The drama began last fall when the village spent $134,000 to turn a muddy triangle of land into a park where pups could run off-leash in a fenced refuge. Chase tennis balls. Sniff one another’s butts.

But after about a month, signs decrying the barking of those dogs began appearing around the park. The village police started receiving almost daily calls about the noise, mostly from one particular neighbor whose house backs up to the park. By spring, the tension had escalated so much that the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers called a public hearing. Then another in June. And another in July.

At the center of it all is Elissa Leonard, chair of the village board and wife to Jerome H. Powell, who is also a chair — of the Federal Reserve. In recent months, her husband has been under attack from President Trump, who appointed him but blames him for the tanking stock market. “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?” the president tweeted Friday.

[RainCaster]

1. DFT gives him a sad, so he wants to kick a few doggies?

Is that the gist of it?

[zeusdogmom]

3. Read the entire article

Powell has nothing to do with the barking dogs. His wife is chairperson of the Board who has to deal with the complaint.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. They want me to disable the ad blocker and give them money to read this.

No way.

[RainCaster]

7. You're right- DFT gives him a sad, and so do his busy-body neighbor.

I think that the whiny neighbor should move out.

[Croney]

2. A song comes to mind

You can look at the menu, but you just can't eat
You can feel the cushion, but you can't have a seat

You can build a dog park, but you can't let them bark
You can curse his Twitter, but he won't hear your snark

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. It's bad enough I get to listen to neighbor dogs barking

what feels like all day long. If I had the misfortune to have a dog part built in back of my house, I'd be tempted to do something terrible. The people at the park with their dogs are only their for an hour or so. The unfortunate homeowners are there 24-7.

I have gotten so I really dislike dogs and their ceaseless barking. And those of you whose dogs never bark, spare me. They probably bark a lot more than you realize or are home to hear.

One thing about cats. You don't hear them meowing half a block away.

[RainCaster]

6. I like the sounds of critters

My three dogs, the neighbor's 3, the horses in the pasture next to us. The donkeys braying for breakfast every morning. It's a part of rural life, and I appreciate it much more than the traffic noise and ambulance sirens in any city.