Yeh daft to compare to a child your right there but a lot of people now compare there dogs and cats to the equivalent of a child don't they and can sympathise with the woman in the article on what she saw as v seen it from both sides n wouldn't want some out of control dodgy dog doing damage to one of mine especially my smaller one, just asking for trouble letting dogs off in residential areas like, I did it as a kid n knew no better were the inevitable happen'd a few times, realised the errors of them ways along time ago wouldn't dream of doing it once I'd grown up, so yeh them articles don't