The City of Toronto, Ontario granted a reprieve to dog walkers yesterday, increasing the maximum number of dogs that can be walked at a single time to five, from the previous three.

Last September, the city council adopted a new law that limited the number of dogs a dog walker could walk to three, amidst complains of dogs leaving poop in city parks.

I guess I don't understand the logic of limiting the number of dogs that a single person can walk, and reducing the amount of poop left behind. There is a specific number of dogs that live in Toronto, and these dogs produce a specific amount of poop each day. Just because you are limited to how many dogs you can walk at a time, is not going to reduce this number.

This is because all dogs need to be walked. If I owned six dogs, and I was allowed to walk only three at a time, then I will walk the first three dogs, and then come back to walk the remaining three dogs.

In this case, the article linked above focused on dog walking companies. The same concept will apply. If the company is servicing 200 dogs a day, then it will simply raise its fees, and hire more dog walkers. You're going to have the same number of dogs hitting the city's parks, but just more humans attached to them.