bizarro world! I was just walking my dog in Malcolm X park a couple of hours ago, around 2:30-3. first off, there's usually a fair bit of people hanging around the park, even at that time, but tonight there seemed to be an exceptionally large amount. in any case, as I was walking my dog 3 rather large dogs came bounding up to me and my dog. all 3 were off-leash, and nobody came to approach them. they all seemed to be on their own. not to mention the fact that there were some knocked over trashcans with lots of spilled trash and when I finally managed to get my dog away from the situation I noticed the dogs digging through the trash.

the dogs seemed to be rather friendly, didn't bark or growl, just seemed to want to play, but I wasn't going to take any chances. one dog was all black, the other was black and white and the other was beige/brown. what's with all these beautiful friendly abandoned dogs in the neighborhood all of a sudden?

There were a lot of folks out last night, and I think that always tends to happen in advance of the 4th. There've been fireworks going constantly. I didn't see the dogs out there earlier in the evening, and they don't sound like any I've seen out there before. There are a number of folks who use the very late and very early morning hours to let their dogs off-leash out there, but they're mostly pretty well behaved.

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