Oh! What's this about pets? But Catlover said...

Doesn't mean or prove zip. You have no way of backing up or quantifying the ridiculous previously stated numbers that "hundreds" of people don't come to Zihua because of the dog restrictions.

Well that was predictable.

What a sore loser. I don't have to PROVE anything to anyone. You are free to be as stubbornly wrongheaded and errant as you like. I'll take my COGNITIVE and EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE over your incredulity any friggin day. And I stand by my previous comments.

Come back with your OPINION after you've spent 20 years communicating daily with Mexican and foreign tourists. Otherwise I recommend the salsa verde with that crow.

30 years I have been in Ixtapa. Before regulations one would see 5-10 dogs per day on the beach. Impossible to know how many were locally owned.

A COMPLETE non issue for Ixtapa tourism! Nothing to see here!

I'm not going to argue with you, Dave. You're here a few days, weeks at the most, and the you're gone most of the year. You have limited contact with residents and tourists, and you certainly don't make a living off our local tourism. Am I correct in that you aren't conversant in Spanish? So apart from what you view from your balcony or your brief sojourns on the beach at whatever hour, how would you know who cancelled their vacation, who decided not to come after asking if pets were allowed, or who sold their property and moved away owing to the ban on pets on the beaches? Just today another family seeking to come here and rent a nice home decided to go somewhere else when apprised of the stupid pet ban on Zihuatanejo's and Ixtapa's beaches. The losses just keep adding up. For those of us who live from local tourism and who seek tourists with sufficient purchasing power to sustain our local economy, the losses are indeed significant. Just not to you or Catlover.

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I live there over 5 months a year. NO DOUBT my feet have been on that beach in Ixtapa more than yours. Keep bitchin at nothing.

Five months on the beach! Yes, your feet are on that beach more than mine because I'm WORKING and dealing with TOURISTS instead of being a tourist not in touch with the local tourist industry. I'm not the one "bitchin". You and Catlover are because neither of you can admit you're wrong even though you keep telling me I am without any basis in fact. Point scored and made. Toodles. Back to work for me.