Bring the cat to the Saturday Market
Published on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 by John OwenRead More Owen at Large
In case you have not been keeping score, I struck out in my campaign to require all tattooed ladies in Snohomish County to spend at least one week a year in a circus sideshow.
I am also frequently reminded that the dog population at the Edmonds Saturday Market has doubled or tripled since I first complained in print about canines cavorting among the fish stalls, produce bins and uncovered cinnamon roll displays.
It has since become an Easter Parade for Mutts. There seems to be an unwritten rule in Edmonds that if you own a dog, you are obliged to display it before your friends and neighbors. At one recent market I saw "shoppers" wrestling with two, even three idiot dogs as they sniff each other down the aisles. (The dogs, not the shoppers.)
The response of market managers and supervisors has been to post signs requesting that poodles improve their bathroom habits or warning that only dogs with good social skills be admitted to the market area. The signs are much too subtle for the dogs, or their owners.
So I've decided it is time to raise the ante and to reveal the complete absence of social skills among the market mutts.
It's time we declared "Cat Day at the Edmonds Saturday Market." Shoppers would still be allowed to bring their canine pals. But they would have to share the aisles with Fluffy, Whiskers and Mrs. Paddycat. I don't think many cats are going to chase the dogs. They have too many social skills. But any Schnauzer who loses his composure would be banned from future markets, or at least be required to wear a sign reading, "Bad Dog, BAD, BAD DOG!"
It's time members of the cat lobby stand up and be counted. Their numbers are not insignificant.
A recent National Pet Owners' survey revealed 73 million dogs in American homes versus 90 million cats. But when stray pets are included, felines win in a landslide.
Pet control people in Los Angeles -- to use just one example -- estimate a population of 45,000 stray dogs and two million feral cats!
If all the feral cats in Edmonds got organized, they could kick butt at the Saturday Market.
Which is just what they will probably do, if and when Feline Day is proclaimed at Fifth and Bell.
And when Edmonds City Hall would be known, even for one day, as The Cat House.
I am also frequently reminded that the dog population at the Edmonds Saturday Market has doubled or tripled since I first complained in print about canines cavorting among the fish stalls, produce bins and uncovered cinnamon roll displays.
It has since become an Easter Parade for Mutts. There seems to be an unwritten rule in Edmonds that if you own a dog, you are obliged to display it before your friends and neighbors. At one recent market I saw "shoppers" wrestling with two, even three idiot dogs as they sniff each other down the aisles. (The dogs, not the shoppers.)
The response of market managers and supervisors has been to post signs requesting that poodles improve their bathroom habits or warning that only dogs with good social skills be admitted to the market area. The signs are much too subtle for the dogs, or their owners.
So I've decided it is time to raise the ante and to reveal the complete absence of social skills among the market mutts.
It's time we declared "Cat Day at the Edmonds Saturday Market." Shoppers would still be allowed to bring their canine pals. But they would have to share the aisles with Fluffy, Whiskers and Mrs. Paddycat. I don't think many cats are going to chase the dogs. They have too many social skills. But any Schnauzer who loses his composure would be banned from future markets, or at least be required to wear a sign reading, "Bad Dog, BAD, BAD DOG!"
It's time members of the cat lobby stand up and be counted. Their numbers are not insignificant.
A recent National Pet Owners' survey revealed 73 million dogs in American homes versus 90 million cats. But when stray pets are included, felines win in a landslide.
Pet control people in Los Angeles -- to use just one example -- estimate a population of 45,000 stray dogs and two million feral cats!
If all the feral cats in Edmonds got organized, they could kick butt at the Saturday Market.
Which is just what they will probably do, if and when Feline Day is proclaimed at Fifth and Bell.
And when Edmonds City Hall would be known, even for one day, as The Cat House.