Okay so, your dog is barking more and you think it's the squirrels, but what if it's the *city*?
Your dog bites are skyrocketing in the Tenderloin, what's going on?
Okay so, I'm scrolling through the local stuff, right? And you see the usual — heat wave, Warriors probably gonna... well, you know. But then you hit this one: Dog bites in San Francisco are up, which, fine, we're a city of dog people. You walk through Dolores Park on a Saturday, it's basically a canine convention. But then it gets specific: In the Tenderloin? They're *skyrocketing*. Like, SFPD is calling their new enforcement operation "Paw Patrol" (hella dry, I respect it). This isn't just a few more nips, this is a concentrated issue in one of the densest, most challenged neighborhoods in the City.
And you gotta wonder, what's the deal? Is it the stress? Are dogs picking up on the constant churn, the desperation, the way things just *are* in that part of town? You see everything there, every single human experience, all on one block. It's the kind of place where a small thing can cascade. Maybe it's the lack of green space for dogs, maybe it's the sheer number of unhoused people with their companion animals, maybe it's just the general vibe of chaos. That's the City, fam — fog, hills, and all.
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