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“Dogs don’t have any choice in the matter—and that’s problematic for dogs,” she said, adding that she worries about the ability of pet owners to make realistic quality-of-life assessments about their pets.

That quality-of-life survey, which included residents outside L.A. who cannot participate in its city elections, showed that 49% of respondents had unfavorable views of Bass, up considerably from the prior year.

It’s easy to see why Gladstone describes “The Wedding Banquet” as “a really high quality-of-life project.”

Whatever we feel about the necessity or effectiveness of large-scale social interventions in response to the pandemic, we should all agree that — from a collective quality-of-life perspective — they sucked.

Railsback said there have been “public safety” and “quality-of-life” issues at the house, which had affected neighbors.