Maybe If We All Become Dog Psychiatrists The Economy Will Finally Turn The Corner

“Dog counseling has been in demand in Hawaii County since early last year, when county commissioners passed an ordinance banning “barks, bays, cries, howls” that go on continuously for 10 minutes, or intermittently for 20 minutes within a half-hour. Police can write barking tickets or sentence an incessant howler to a humane shelter…. Dogs probably aren’t yowling more than before. Instead, officials in places like Hawaii County speculate that barking complaints have risen in part because more people are home to hear the yapping after losing their jobs.”