Battery Kemble Dog Park?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Battery Kemble is a beautiful national park situated between MacArthur Boulevard, Foxhall Road, and Nebraska Avenue.

When snowfall allows, the hill on Battery Kemble is an amazing place for sledding and the park has attracted hundreds of families over the last two days looking to enjoy an activity that has become all-too-rare in DC.

One thing Battery Kemble is not is a dog park. There is signage throughout the park requiring, under penalty of prosecution, that dogs be leashed and under the control of the owner.

And yet there are unleashed dogs everywhere in Battery Kemble. Even with so many young children around, owners see fit to let their dogs roam free throughout this national park. We’re not just talking golden retrievers and schnauzers either, but also pit bulls and alsatians.

Are dog owners by and large illiterate? Or do they just believe themselves to be exempt from federal laws?

To be frank, we just don’t care. What’s going to happen? I get a $50 ticket or a slap on the wrist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don't understand is why they don't just fine people for unleashed dogs like crazy. They could raise soon much money for the city

It is NPS. So the city would see no money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Battery Kemble is a beautiful national park situated between MacArthur Boulevard, Foxhall Road, and Nebraska Avenue.

When snowfall allows, the hill on Battery Kemble is an amazing place for sledding and the park has attracted hundreds of families over the last two days looking to enjoy an activity that has become all-too-rare in DC.

One thing Battery Kemble is not is a dog park. There is signage throughout the park requiring, under penalty of prosecution, that dogs be leashed and under the control of the owner.

And yet there are unleashed dogs everywhere in Battery Kemble. Even with so many young children around, owners see fit to let their dogs roam free throughout this national park. We’re not just talking golden retrievers and schnauzers either, but also pit bulls and alsatians.

Are dog owners by and large illiterate? Or do they just believe themselves to be exempt from federal laws?

If the city isn’t going to lift a finger to stop people from smoking weed next to my kids school or thugs looting my CVS on a weekly basis, then I’m letting Fido off the leash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I don't understand is why they don't just fine people for unleashed dogs like crazy. They could raise soon much money for the city

It is NPS. So the city would see no money.

NPS is in desperate need of funds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Battery Kemble is a beautiful national park situated between MacArthur Boulevard, Foxhall Road, and Nebraska Avenue.

When snowfall allows, the hill on Battery Kemble is an amazing place for sledding and the park has attracted hundreds of families over the last two days looking to enjoy an activity that has become all-too-rare in DC.

One thing Battery Kemble is not is a dog park. There is signage throughout the park requiring, under penalty of prosecution, that dogs be leashed and under the control of the owner.

And yet there are unleashed dogs everywhere in Battery Kemble. Even with so many young children around, owners see fit to let their dogs roam free throughout this national park. We’re not just talking golden retrievers and schnauzers either, but also pit bulls and alsatians.

Are dog owners by and large illiterate? Or do they just believe themselves to be exempt from federal laws?

To be frank, we just don’t care. What’s going to happen? I get a $50 ticket or a slap on the wrist?

$300 fine and/or 10 days in jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Battery Kemble is a beautiful national park situated between MacArthur Boulevard, Foxhall Road, and Nebraska Avenue.

When snowfall allows, the hill on Battery Kemble is an amazing place for sledding and the park has attracted hundreds of families over the last two days looking to enjoy an activity that has become all-too-rare in DC.

One thing Battery Kemble is not is a dog park. There is signage throughout the park requiring, under penalty of prosecution, that dogs be leashed and under the control of the owner.

And yet there are unleashed dogs everywhere in Battery Kemble. Even with so many young children around, owners see fit to let their dogs roam free throughout this national park. We’re not just talking golden retrievers and schnauzers either, but also pit bulls and alsatians.

Are dog owners by and large illiterate? Or do they just believe themselves to be exempt from federal laws?

To be frank, we just don’t care. What’s going to happen? I get a $50 ticket or a slap on the wrist?

$300 fine and/or 10 days in jail.

lol if you think a cop would put someone in jail. The odds of someone getting a $300 ticket is slim. Slap on the wrist at most.

[Anonymous]

more people get hurt at BK in the chaotic and overcrowded sledding each year than they do by unleashed dogs in the park.

[Anonymous]

but let me guess OP, you are a cyclist who feels entitled to regularly break traffic laws, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don't understand is why they don't just fine people for unleashed dogs like crazy. They could raise soon much money for the city

The Park Police are not the same as the City Police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Battery Kemble is a beautiful national park situated between MacArthur Boulevard, Foxhall Road, and Nebraska Avenue.

When snowfall allows, the hill on Battery Kemble is an amazing place for sledding and the park has attracted hundreds of families over the last two days looking to enjoy an activity that has become all-too-rare in DC.

One thing Battery Kemble is not is a dog park. There is signage throughout the park requiring, under penalty of prosecution, that dogs be leashed and under the control of the owner.

And yet there are unleashed dogs everywhere in Battery Kemble. Even with so many young children around, owners see fit to let their dogs roam free throughout this national park. We’re not just talking golden retrievers and schnauzers either, but also pit bulls and alsatians.

Are dog owners by and large illiterate? Or do they just believe themselves to be exempt from federal laws?

If the city isn’t going to lift a finger to stop people from smoking weed next to my kids school or thugs looting my CVS on a weekly basis, then I’m letting Fido off the leash.

The city has no jurisdiction here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:but let me guess OP, you are a cyclist who feels entitled to regularly break traffic laws, no?

It’s you again! Welcome!

[Anonymous]

I don’t think that OP goes in the park except for this one day when they wanted it to be for sledding.

It’s for dogs the other 51 weeks. Relax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:but let me guess OP, you are a cyclist who feels entitled to regularly break traffic laws, no?

Some reading for you: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/09/18/motorists-break-law-to-save-time-cyclists-break-law-to-save-lives-finds-study/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that OP goes in the park except for this one day when they wanted it to be for sledding.

It’s for dogs the other 51 weeks. Relax.

The whole point of national parks is to give wildlife space to flourish. Dogs run riot off leash through the woods is anathema to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that OP goes in the park except for this one day when they wanted it to be for sledding.

It’s for dogs the other 51 weeks. Relax.

The whole point of national parks is to give wildlife space to flourish. Dogs run riot off leash through the woods is anathema to that.

And isn't the whole point of the large lots around there to give Fido a place to run around without a leash?