Athletic fields are not dog parks

[Anonymous]

This happens daily at Upshur baseball field. Those poor little leaguers much be dodging shit at every game. Yuck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

Fine. Next time your kid pees in my bushes, we'll confiscate him. Re-homeing and all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

Fine. Next time your kid pees in my bushes, we'll confiscate him. Re-homeing and all.

I don't care if your dog pees or craps in bushes. I don't want my kid sliding into dog crap on a baseball field. My husband is a coach and has to routinely tell dog owners to get off the baseball fields. The league has permits for the fields that they pay for. Just because the team is gathered by the dugout you don't have the right to run your dog off leash in the outfield. It isn't cute that your dog wants to chase a baseball and slobber and bite it. When did dog owners become so incredibly entitled?

[Anonymous]

Aren't most DC playgrounds and fields posted "no dogs"? That's pretty clear -- it's not even that dogs on leashes are allowed. Off-leash dogs doing their business on the fields are especially verboten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

Fine. Next time your kid pees in my bushes, we'll confiscate him. Re-homeing and all.

What kind of shitty company do you keep that this is an ongoing issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

Fine. Next time your kid pees in my bushes, we'll confiscate him. Re-homeing and all.

What kind of shitty company do you keep that this is an ongoing issue?

Exactly, I've never had a kid pee on my property and we're on a street full of rambunctious little boys.

[Anonymous]

If it makes you feel any better, I let my dog run on the tennis courts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

I hear you, OP, and I'm a dog owner. I hate walking my dog and seeing where people have left piles without cleaning up.

Maybe a ticket rather than confiscation, though.

No, not a ticket. Usually the entitled assholes who do this are rich as hell. They don't care about a $35 ticket. Confiscate the animals and rehome them with a responsible owner.

Because there are so many responsible owners available. That's why all the shelters are empty!

You can be annoyed with a lazy dog owner. Sentencing their dog to death over it is extreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

I'm getting really fed up with pet haters trolling the pet threads to bitch and moan about nothing in particular.

Kids have stepped in dog crap for decades and survived the experience.

Before you clutch your pearls, make no mistake, I clean up after my dog every day. But I also realize I share the planet with people who don't do what I want all the time. Smokers. Litterers. Hummer drivers who creep up on pedestrians legally crossing the street. Tourists walking three abreast on city streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

I'm getting really fed up with pet haters trolling the pet threads to bitch and moan about nothing in particular.

Kids have stepped in dog crap for decades and survived the experience.

Before you clutch your pearls, make no mistake, I clean up after my dog every day. But I also realize I share the planet with people who don't do what I want all the time. Smokers. Litterers. Hummer drivers who creep up on pedestrians legally crossing the street. Tourists walking three abreast on city streets.

AY-MEN!!! This is why I don't bother with the dog parks: the County can't figure out how to work the latch!!! From the County press release quoted in the article:

The Arlington County Fire Department came to the rescue of some two dozen pups plus their people last Friday after an inner gate froze closed around dinner time at Clarendon’s James Hunter Park’s dog park.

No one was howling to leave, but once firefighters removed the stubborn, industrial-grade latch, almost half the pooches and their biped pals hightailed it home, authorities reported.

“We want to apologize to the dogs and their owners,” said Jane Rudolph, director of the County Department of Parks and Recreation. “That gate had a date with the welder today.”

Let me get this straight. I have multiple gates I can use to walk onto a baseball field. The field is fenced all around. I can run my dog over a much larger area. Animal Welfare officers, who don't work very long days, aren't going to come enforce the leash law because they work for Arlington Welfare League of Arlington under contract to the County, so they can't risk messing with their donor base.

But instead, I'm going to pick my steps through a cramped poo-laden mud pit where other dogs take my dog's tennis ball? Plus the County makes fun of you for getting stuck in THEIR dog park???

Right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

Youth football team once rolled in shit. Stretches on the grass-parent went to a local store and got lawn and leaf bags so kids could go home riding in cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

I'm getting really fed up with pet haters trolling the pet threads to bitch and moan about nothing in particular.

Kids have stepped in dog crap for decades and survived the experience.

Before you clutch your pearls, make no mistake, I clean up after my dog every day. But I also realize I share the planet with people who don't do what I want all the time. Smokers. Litterers. Hummer drivers who creep up on pedestrians legally crossing the street. Tourists walking three abreast on city streets.

I'm fed up with the clutch your pearls insults. I just posted about the shit covered kids. One of my kids stepped in a steaming pile once that oozed over socks-had to come home and was late for school. Shit was in leaves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You sure it wasn't deer or fox poop? We had a woman in our neighborhood complaining on the listserv about poop in her yard and it turned out to be fox.

Fox poop looks nothing like dog poop. It has seeds in it. People are lazy and inconsiderate.

No, racoon scat is filled with seeds. This is fox scat and it can look like mid-sized dog excrement.

[Anonymous]

the people who live in edgemoor do it all the time at BE. I am sire they feel it is their field to use -such A..holes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting really fed up with dog owners who think it's OK to exercise their dogs on athletic fields. My kid stepped in dog crap last night fielding a ball in RF. I would really like to see some laws that confiscate animals from people who engage in this behavior.

I'm getting really fed up with pet haters trolling the pet threads to bitch and moan about nothing in particular.

Kids have stepped in dog crap for decades and survived the experience.

Before you clutch your pearls, make no mistake, I clean up after my dog every day. But I also realize I share the planet with people who don't do what I want all the time. Smokers. Litterers. Hummer drivers who creep up on pedestrians legally crossing the street. Tourists walking three abreast on city streets.

AY-MEN!!! This is why I don't bother with the dog parks: the County can't figure out how to work the latch!!! From the County press release quoted in the article:

The Arlington County Fire Department came to the rescue of some two dozen pups plus their people last Friday after an inner gate froze closed around dinner time at Clarendon’s James Hunter Park’s dog park.

No one was howling to leave, but once firefighters removed the stubborn, industrial-grade latch, almost half the pooches and their biped pals hightailed it home, authorities reported.

“We want to apologize to the dogs and their owners,” said Jane Rudolph, director of the County Department of Parks and Recreation. “That gate had a date with the welder today.”

Let me get this straight. I have multiple gates I can use to walk onto a baseball field. The field is fenced all around. I can run my dog over a much larger area. Animal Welfare officers, who don't work very long days, aren't going to come enforce the leash law because they work for Arlington Welfare League of Arlington under contract to the County, so they can't risk messing with their donor base.

But instead, I'm going to pick my steps through a cramped poo-laden mud pit where other dogs take my dog's tennis ball? Plus the County makes fun of you for getting stuck in THEIR dog park???

Right.

It is not the county's responsibility to worry about if your dog has a place to chase a tennis ball. It is on you, as a pet owner, to find a legal place to exercise your dog. Dog crap everywhere is a health issue, and picking it up from grass doesn't actually remove all of it, and that's gross. Smokers and Hummer drivers and tourists walking 3 abreast are not breaking the law. The existence of litterers does not permit you to break the law. Just because an area is fenced in does not mean it is okay to run your dog there. Stop being so lazy and walk your dog! Walking not enough exercise? Stop being so lazy and run your dog! Can't run? Move to the country or don't get a dog. The people who live in this city and pay taxes in this city don't want the rest of the city to turn into a cramped poo-laden mud pit because of you.