Dogs might be banned from Pennsylvania city's downtown

Dogs in Beaver Falls, Penn., might soon be banned from the city's downtown. The town, 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, is only home to 10,000 people -- but apparently enough of them are raising unruly dogs that city planners are considering the ban. Concerns run the gamut from "pit bulls and Rottweilers [which] are sometimes left tied to parking meters by their owners" to dogs that are mysteriously described as being "as big as ponies." One city administrator says the proposal is neither a whim nor some pony-dog-centric fever dream: "It's not that anybody on the council doesn't like dogs. It's just that many dog owners are being irresponsible and ruining things for everybody." [Source]

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