I recently conducted a new client consultation with a young woman who was going away for the weekend and wanted someone to care for her pets while she was away. She has a 9 year old chocolate lab and an 18 year old cat. She also had a toddler.

In the course of asking the questions I needed answered for the animals' care, I asked how often the dog was being walked. She replied that he hadn't been walked in over a year.and a half. They have a big yard and they let him out there to do his business and they play fetch with him there.

  Every Wednesday I do a dog walk in the City Heights area. I always take the same route and  pass the same houses in the neighborhood.

There is one house that I pass that causes me great dismay and makes me so angry that  I want to scream.

They have a beautiful male German Shepherd puppy that I have watched grow up over the past several months. Every week when I walk past the house, the limited concrete space that the puppy has to live on, is covered in feces. Piles of it everywhere.