I live in Manhattan. Some of the parks now have those dog fountains, but I don’t like to use them because if one sick dog drinks from it, the rest of the dogs will get sick — not to mention that in the winter dogs pee all over them!

I was in the dog run recently, and when I gave my dogs some water all the other dogs came running over to drink! Do you think the dopey owners got it?

What happens when they get home — they drink a lot of water and have to pee again! And I assume they have to wait to be walked again, when they’ll come back thirsty and the same will happen again! I’m sure that if the poor dogs have an accident, the owner has no idea why!

I don’t get it…I see some people running with their dogs, and even they don’t have water for their dogs. Once I even saw a woman on a bicycle dragging her poor dog on a day when the temperature was over 90 degrees!

What annoys me most is that occasionally people tell me that my dogs look thirsty — and I’m the only one I see that carries water! This happened the other day when there was a container of water right in front of the dogs!

I also notice that dog owners don’t seem to realize how hot the concrete sidewalk gets — they leave their dogs in the sun when they enter stores, and the poor dogs are doing a dance because their feet are hot!