Dogged by Doubts About Canine Camp

On reading the piece in Life & Style about the summer camp for dogs (at $1,300 per week), I sat stunned in disbelief of the little minds who invented such an enterprise and of the smaller minds who patronize it (“Dog Days,” July 18).

In all likelihood, the American culture bashers around the world will lap it up as another example of American decadence.

The Times should have held up to ridicule the warped values of those who dote on pets to such bizarre ends as sending them to Lake Tahoe for canoeing, hiking, coloring books with paws, singing around campfires and writing postcards home.

The same $1,300 could have given two poor children a first-class summer camp experience.

SAUL LISKIN

Santa Monica

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Children should be as fortunate as these dogs. Just leave your kids with any baby sitter you can find so you can work. Anything to make money to throw away. Where are our values? Send the dogs to luxury camp and throw away the babies. Where are we headed?

MARY ELLEN HEIBERG

Downey