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regard as somewhat of a totem of country living.
After reading Mr. Duxbury^ letter in a recent edition of the Rappahannock News, however, I was flabbergasted...these people are serious! They make it sound like every barking dog in the county is barking for the sole purpose of annoying them and disturbing their peace and quiet.
I would humbly submit that they may both have an exaggerated sense of selfimportance. I know for a fact that my three dogs are far too busy keeping raccoons, skunks and wild cats out of my bam; deer, groundhogs, and rabbits out of my garden; and bears out of my outside trash cans to waste their barking on the Chadwells and Duxburys of the county.
I own dogs precisely because they do bark. Their bark serves a vital function on my property. If they didn’t bark they would merely be rather expensive way of ensuring that my floors always have a fine layer of dog hair and my furniture muddy paw prints.
The Chadwells and Duxburys could well get their way if the citizenry of Rappahannock forgets that common sense is the basic building block of country living. Should such an ordinance come to pass, I can only hope that its proponents won’t be too bothered by the
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