Dogs in the Office.

George Miller of Pembroke Pines writes in the July 1 News that he hates having "mutts" in his law office.

I wanted to remind George that he sounds like the "You kids get off my lawn!" guy, but he has a point. My dog Frank comes to work every day, so I have some idea what George is trying to say. I agree with him that if the dog is "panting and waiting for a French fry to drop" while he is eating his lunch, that is a bad owner. If the dog is "sniffing" his ankles while he is at the copy machine, that's a bad owner. If you have to step around the dog to go anywhere, that's a bad owner. And if the owner lets the dog poop right outside the law office, that is a really bad owner. If the dog you bring to work is not clean, trained, and willing to obey you immediately (not after three calls and a whistle--immediately) then you have no business taking that dog to work.

Dogs are generally neither good nor bad, just like your 5-year-old. Bad parents and bad owners produce unruly children and dogs. Neither has a place in any office. George, you're a good boy for pointing that out.

Jeffrey L. Price

Gainesville

Rawan Bitar is obviously using her weight as an associate editor to flood the July 15 News with dog pictures and articles on the front page. And you, Mark Killian, as the editor are just as much to blame. I assume she did this in retaliation to my letter, where I criticized pets at work and...