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The dog owners of the outer boroughs have oddly always seemed to have less outdoor space for their canines than those in Manhattan; or maybe they just speak up about it more. Either way, the Brooklyn Paper reports that dog owners of the South Slope "have commandeered a small park near the Prospect Expressway for a dog run" and are now angling to make it official.

Won't anyone in the city throw a dog a bone? First Brooklyn was stingy with their parks, and now canine Queens residents are at odds with human city parks officials! The Daily News reports that Forest Hills pet owners want a dog run at Yellowstone Boulevard and 68th Avenue, but are being told to use the Under Bridge one "that residents call filthy and dangerous" (allegedly guard dogs are brought to exercise there). With over 900 signatures for the proposed run at Yellowstone Park, Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski is still ignoring the request, "figuring nonstop barking would irk nearby apartment dwellers and that city workers would have to move plants."

      

Brooklyn photographer Michael Crouser sure has captured the dark side of New York's dog parks. The images are for his new book of photography called Dog Run, and a selection of them will be on display at the Gallery FCB through the month of October. Crouser relayed one story from a dog park to us, in which the pug you'll see in the images is the protagonist.

This little pug kept barking at me, and following me around, so eventually I turned my camera on him...he picked a distance that he liked to bark from, but it was just inches too close for me to focus on him. If I backed away he moved toward me the exact same distance and kept barking. I tried again, and again he moved with me...soon people were laughing at our little dog and camera show as we shuffled across the park. I finally figured out that if I moved toward him he would back away, just into range, so I could get one or two shots before he reestablished his fighting distance. This went on for about five minutes...until I had shot a whole roll of him looking earnestly and protectively and barkingly into the eye of the 300mm alien, which he very obviously didn't care for.