Until someone comes up with a way to prevent gentrification that isn't redlining, this topic should simply die.

Neighborhoods change. Presumably some native american people lived there back in the day; when Europeans came along, it was a jewish neighborhood, then it was a black neighborhood after WW2. Now it's becoming a white and non-immigrant asian neighborhood. It'll be something else in the future.

I enjoy the gentrification of our city. It's clean up many of the undesirable people and in their place put people who can really afford to live in our fair city.

Charles, I love your writing, I like that half the time I disagree passionately, and half the time I agree passionately. Passion is a good thing to evoke (within reason).

But on this dog issue, we are as one. What kind of insanity, arrogance, and mis-placed self confidence causes people to imagine that it is OK to bring their shedding, barking, slobbering, sniffing, occasionally aggressive animals into spaces designed to be shared by humans who are strangers to each other? I suppose their owners think everyone is as charmed as they are by their dog's erratic behavior, bare assholes, tails waving, dispersing butt-funk for all to enjoy.

I own a dog. I like him very much, and he is welcome to cuddle with me on the couch when I watch TV. I suspend my disgust about his asshole and butt-funk because I like him so much. But I would never expect others to suspend their disbelief by bringing him into a public indoor space such as a store or bus.

Frankly, I don't think dogs should be allowed on public property at all. No sidewalks, no parks, nothing. If you live in a city, a space designed for many humans to live and share space, you simply shouldn't have a dog. If you do, you should be wealthy enough to have or rent a private space for the dog to be outdoors. Certainly animals should not be allowed on public property.

Though I love my dog, I will never get another as long as I live in a city. Getting him was a selfish and inconsiderate thing to do to all the humans who live in this city. I'm sorry. It won't happen again (but I'm not getting rid of this one).

Oh god. Here it is. This months dumpster fire post for trolling dipshits and masochists who just love to say stupid inflammatory shit.

Next: Israel doesn’t have a right to exist unless they declaw cats and become vegan.

Heckfire! Dogs shouldn't be in bars, pubs, coffee shops, etc., either.

I don't mind it so much because I'm a dog lover and most of the dogs I see in the grocery stores are well-behaved, but it's all over the place here in Los Angeles (and particularly in Koreatown). Maybe it's Kardasian-chic? It pisses my sister off. She loves dogs, too, but she sees a public health issue, and there are actually laws forbidding animals (other than seeing eye dogs) in grocery stores - a law which is being ignored. Perhaps law enforcement has more pressing issues.

@8 That may (or may not) be true, but it's irrelevant to the topic beause stores can't do anything about babies or other human disease vectors. Adding unnecessary animals to the mix only makes the situation worse. The two hazards don't cancel each other out.

Dogs not allowed on sidewalk??
Why not??
Then keep your untrained dirty, coughing, sneezing, crying, loudmouth children off them too!
And I have been ran off the BG Trail by children on bikes that do not follow rules, I have never been hurt by a dog, EVER!
I have never gotten sick from a dog, EVER.
When I see a dog in a store, it is always behaving.
90% of the children I see in stores are running around, screaming, throwing stuff, or crying.
And dogs in public are the problem??????

The several times I have seen dogs at Red Apple they were with young street kids, but I agree, dogs, mine included belong outside eating establishments. It may just be a unreasonable biased influence brought on by a lifetime of having to ask people to not bring their dogs into restaurants and stores I have worked at.

I usually don't care to spend $8.95 on a small can of tuna fish or $12.95 for a half gallon of orange juice but next time I need either I'm going to the Red Apple on Beacon Hill specifically to bring my dog right after he gets muddy at the dog park. My only regret will be that -the Koran's condemnation of dogs as evil notwithstanding- he'd pose no health hazard to you comparable to the resistant strains of TB your comrades in conquest racist hatred of human beings whose ancestors evolved in Europe have brought in and are coughing all over the place.

I was at the Beacon Hill Red Apple and saw the signs all over to the place not to bring your pets in the store.... Wow.. I love my dog but I would never be so arrogant to bring her in the store with me.

I'm just speaking for myself, but whenever I have taken my emotional support turkey to the Red Apple she has been very well behaved.

There were white people at the Red Apple? Oh, my stars and garters! What will happen next?

I've lived on Beacon Hill for twenty years. The neighborhood has always been Asian/White. If "more white people" are shopping there, it's because they've cleaned it up so much in the last 15 years. (it used to be really nasty in there - particularly the meat counter)

And you have to be a real nitwit to go out of your way to shop there. It's a nice store and all, but it's expensive. I shop there almost everyday, but it is literally between work and home, and I am too lazy to go anywhere else.