I would like to take a few moments to express my thoughts and feelings towards a 60ish woman and her two "corkies" (little yappy dogs) who visited our Pine River Cemetery last week. I noticed you right away as you got out of your vehicle - you opened the door and turned your dogs loose so they could run free barking at everyone near your vehicle. I also noticed that you made no attempt to put them on a leash. As you followed them up the walkway, you "dismissed" people trying to spend some quiet time with loved ones by stating "They just think this is their park."

Their park???

Yup, a few minutes later, one of YOUR yappy mutts proceeded to do his business next to a headstone. And you just walked on by.

First, if the headstone had been one of my family stones, I probably would have just went ahead and killed your yappy dog as it was obvious that you weren't going to clean up the mess.

You continued to just walk around doing nothing to control or monitor your free-ranging animals. Second, and more importantly, you were in OUR cemetery, not your personal dog park.

All of us who live here "own" that cemetery as a final resting place for OUR loved ones. It not a damn dog park. Most folks who go there do so to be with a spouse, grandparent, uncle or aunt, or child. They go there for the quiet and the connection they feel for the place, not to listen to your yappy dogs or have to look where they sit to avoid deposits left by your dogs.

I think the best solution for ALL of us is to keep our cameras and cell phones at the ready and take your picture next time, then send it to the paper and ask them to publish your picture so everyone in the valley can thank you for being the thoughtless, moronic, no-account piece of dog dirt that you must be.

Or better yet, leave your damn dogs at home next time.

OK, valley residents, take your cameras to the cemetery and let's take back OUR Cemetery.

Bill Faust

Bayfield