{"id":536,"date":"2023-09-07T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/?p=536"},"modified":"2023-12-06T20:47:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:47:13","slug":"does-toronto-have-a-dog-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/does-toronto-have-a-dog-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Toronto have a dog problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With a rise in attacks \u2014 and tensions \u2014 some say the rules to keep everyone safe aren\u2019t working. We love our dogs, but our parks are under strain. Off-leash dogs abound and bites are rising. Can the city enforce its way to a better coexistence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatima Cabral loves the Warden Woods ravine: the leaves rustling in the towering oaks, the warblers chirping from the branches, the sunlight dancing on the surface of Taylor-Massey Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhere does this little path go?\u201d Fatima would ask her little dog, Soda, and the two would set off on a new adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/does-toronto-have-a-dog-problem-with-a-rise-in-attacks-and-tensions-some-say\/article_f9d27fcd-569c-5a83-9226-0ba39baca23c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Does Toronto have a dog problem?<\/a> (Toronto Star, September 2, 2023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a rise in attacks \u2014 and tensions \u2014 some say the rules to keep everyone safe aren\u2019t working. We love our dogs, but our parks are under strain. Off-leash dogs abound and bites are rising. Can the city enforce its way to a better coexistence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}