I find that some dog owners (some, not all, so do *not* flame me) are rapidly ascending my personal list of Assholes and Douchebags the Earth Should Swallow Up, overtaking other members of the list who include taggers, litterers, subway door blockers, waybill posterers, non-signallers, and lousy bar waitstaff. Even worse are the activist leash-free-parks zealots, akin to their brethren in the cycling and pedestrian communities, whose zealotry and self-righteousness is overshadowed only by their various personal neuroses.
Smithers: People like dogs, Mr. Burns.
Burns: Nonsense. Dogs are idiots!
There, I said it, dogs are idiots and many of their owners are too. So sue me.