I am astonished at recent reports in the press about the presence of a Rottweiler dog here in Oak Bay, Hampshire Road to be precise, where there is such a concentration of seniors unable by nature to defend themselves.
Not that anyone would be safe for long in front of an aggressive prey dog.
Even stranger and more difficult to accept is that, given the presence of seismic activity on the B.C. coast, dogs of prey and other dangerous animals are permitted.
Can anyone imagine the scene after a major earthquake, with people immobilized in the wreckage and hungry dogs on the loose, in urgent need of food? We could become their prey. What else?
J.R. Fox,
Oak Bay

(transcribed word for word from the Letters page of the Victoria Times Colonist from yesterday)