Who's Walk Is It Anyway?

Every day, every day, in my neighborhood, I see people walking their dogs, but not at all paying attention to the dog. They are so buried in their phones, that they hardly glance at the animal to know what they're doing, which could be stepping on broken glass or picking up a bone from the grass. The dog may have stopped to have a pee or poop, but the owner or walker just keeps going, often pulling the dog while he's trying to do his buisness. Likewise, some of these folks don't move at all while they're reading or typing or dictating on their phones; hence the dog gets little exercise. Or the walker is going so slowly that the dog is hardly moving.

The subject of walkers brings me to the hired help: some of them are fine. I am not condemning the folks who work for others and do the walking for them, but about half of them, whom I see all the time, are just sitting on a bench in the park to use their phones or meeting their friends, some housekeepers, to have a gab fest. It would be fine if they talked and walked, but many do not. Please, if you have paid help walking your dog, try to check somehow to see if the dog is actually being walked. Maybe have a friend watch them once to see what's actually going on. It should be the dog's walk first and the walker's second.

As for the professional dog walkers, who take multiple dogs at once, all of them that I've seen are also busy with their phones and not watching that the dogs are EACH being looked after. The little ones and big ones are all treated the same, not with individual care or attention. And I'm sure that some of you have also seen the exercise devotees, who think that the dog's walk should be the time for their run or bicycle ride, etc. The dog's leash is tied to the owner's waist or bike and he must keep up, no matter how exhausted the animal might be. It's just not fair or responsible. Who's walk is it anyway?