Abstract
Not all societies are as dog-tolerant as the United States. In some communities reliant on dogs for farming or transport, free-roaming animals may be shot on sight, not because they are carriers of disease but because their instinct is to fall upon the weak.1 Citizens have raised six main issues as the canine population explosion continues in New England: nonworking dogs consume food that, directly or indirectly, could relieve malnourished human beings; the noise created by dogs infringes on the private world of most people and, when chronically maintained, produces stress and illness; dogs running free, especially in packs, are . . .

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