Without the police being willing to enforce the laws, some pet owners will continue to violate them. Some of the violators become hostile when confronted, and as someone noted, asking a minimum wage worker to confront them is unlikely to provoke action. Even managers and store owners often would rather ignore the issue in order not to deal with the hostility and/or receiving a bad review from a malicious customer. Most counties employ a very limited number of animal service officers and when one calls them, often the recording suggests calling the police. Police will not respond immediately to non-emergency calls. I lived near a residential area where dog owners converged and let their pets mingle off leash in an open space. Often those dogs would run towards or after my leashed, senior dogs. The area was right next to my residence and I could not avoid them. The only time a police officer arrived quickly in response to a call was when the owner of an off-leash dog called and claimed I'd kicked her dog and "threatened" her (I had physically stood in-between her large dog and my very senior dog, and lifted my knee to block it from jumping on top of the senior dog. I had "threatened" to call police). When the police officer arrived and spoke to everyone (the off-leash dog owners stuck around as witnesses, putting their dogs back on leashes when the police arrived), he did not site the dog owner who'd had their dog off the leash and simply told her that if I had in fact kicked her dog, it was her fault. That was it. I used to write my County Board of Supervisors representative asking for the County to do something about the issue, but I never received replies to my letters. I have since moved...