This week, I moved my home office to the front living room in Beverly Hills, so I could look out the front for a change instead of the back, just a change of scenery.
To help in this transition, I also modified my work times and noticed how different the world was when I changed the view.
I noticed all you people out there walking your dogs.
Kudos for giving your dogs and yourself the exercise you both so desperately need.
It is a ritual in Beverly Hills to take your dog dog-walking.
Most people walk their dogs in Beverly Hills 3 times per day or pay someone to do it.
The minimum fee here is $29.
00 and some charge as much as $45.
00 per dog per walking with some group discounts if you have three or more pooches.
The following companies are available:

• Dog Day Afternoon
• Lucky Dog Professional Dog Walkers
• Ivy's Critter Care
• Dog Gone Walking Service
• Fetch Pet Care
• The Pet Staff
• Precious Pets
• Pampered Paws

Indeed, I was equally amazed how fat America's pets are getting these days, standing next to their owners.
How is it that you can walk your dogs so many miles and you are both still overly plump? What, these are not dogs they are "Four-Legged Perpetual Eating Machines" and America, well I have some advice to stop this.
No, I am not a shrill for "Science Diet Pet Food" rather, I wish to advise you to stop over feeding your dogs.
Sixty-two percent of America's dog owners overfeed their dogs.
Some excellent reading on this subject is:

1. "Between Pets and People" by Alan Beck
2. "Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Evolution and Behavior" by Raymond and Lorna Coppinger.
   
3. Magazine Article: "Pet Food - The Low Down on Labels.
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Additionally, it would be nice if your dogs would stop pissing on my tree.
It seems each dog walks by and smells the tree and then re-marks it with their own scent? All well and good and the owners do not seem to care, because it is not their tree? No sir, they let out additional dog leash feed and pretend not to notice? Well, thanks a lot, but I am not sure how much more this tree can take.
It is 50 years old you know and that is a lot of uric acid, is my thought on the subject? The Beverly Hills City Hall made strict laws so that dog owners must pick up the dog do do and most Beverly Hills residents take with them plastic bags and grab the poop.
This is done with the bag inside out so their hands do not get dirty and then they bring the bag over the do do and it is in the bag like magic and then continue walking.
Like I said, it is a three times daily ritual, yes the professional dog walkers are also required to do this or they will get a big ticket and fine.
So, the moral of the story for all the people here in Beverly Hills; Stop over feeding your pets and stop letting them piss on my tree and would you please take a super-duper-pooper-scooper with you next time, I mean really.
Use the bag every time, not just when you think someone is watching you.
Sincerely, Lance.