Argumentative Essay: Should There Be A Dog Park?

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The Dog Park debate is a current issue for Muscatine, Iowa residents. The residents, for the dog park argue that building a dog park will improve their pet's mental state and improve property values in their neighborhood. The residents against the dog park state that it would be a hardship on taxpayers and would make the neighborhood noisy. Should there be a dog?

There should not be a dog park because not everyone owns a dog. Forcing the taxpayers to fund a dog park is not fair. Getting that many dogs together will cause noise complaints and make the other residents unhappy. Dogs could also attack each for no reason and owners could get bit. This would cause so many problems for both city and residents.

People for the dog park state that

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