Athletic fields are not dog parks

[Anonymous]

As an owner of 2 dogs this pisses me off. We live in the city and use the dog park in Adams Morgan. There is a large playing field directly across the path from the dog park. I get really pissed when I see dog owners letting their dogs run around the field. It is only a couple of owners who think they are so special that the rules don't apply to them but still. My dogs are fairly large 55 & 60 lbs and they run around just fine in the dog park.

If your dog isn't socialized enough to handle the dog park, then you need to figure out another way to exercise them. Those people ruin it for those of us who are responsible pet owners. My dogs are always on a leash, I don't let them go up to people and I pick up after them, always.

[Anonymous]

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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.

AWLA doesn't enforce the leash law, and the County police don't intervene. So, again, why on Earth would I voluntarily use the poo-laden mud pit? Why would I skip past a perfectly manicured fenced-in baseball field? Or ignore a school playground, if my dog enjoys climbing structures? Why would I withhold those experiences in favor of a crowded "dog park"?

Seems absurd to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an owner of 2 dogs this pisses me off. We live in the city and use the dog park in Adams Morgan. There is a large playing field directly across the path from the dog park. I get really pissed when I see dog owners letting their dogs run around the field. It is only a couple of owners who think they are so special that the rules don't apply to them but still. My dogs are fairly large 55 & 60 lbs and they run around just fine in the dog park.

If your dog isn't socialized enough to handle the dog park, then you need to figure out another way to exercise them. Those people ruin it for those of us who are responsible pet owners. My dogs are always on a leash, I don't let them go up to people and I pick up after them, always.

I don't care if you're angry. The playing field is available. What business is it of yours where those owners run their dogs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an owner of 2 dogs this pisses me off. We live in the city and use the dog park in Adams Morgan. There is a large playing field directly across the path from the dog park. I get really pissed when I see dog owners letting their dogs run around the field. It is only a couple of owners who think they are so special that the rules don't apply to them but still. My dogs are fairly large 55 & 60 lbs and they run around just fine in the dog park.

If your dog isn't socialized enough to handle the dog park, then you need to figure out another way to exercise them. Those people ruin it for those of us who are responsible pet owners. My dogs are always on a leash, I don't let them go up to people and I pick up after them, always.

I don't care if you're angry. The playing field is available. What business is it of yours where those owners run their dogs?

That's just what you're failing to understand - the playing field is NOT available to your dog and your shitty practice of not picking up after them.

[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.

No, let me explain something to you: If I EVER catch you running your dog on a ball field, I will be in your grill. With a baseball bat. I will detain you until the police or animal control officers arrive, and I will press charges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No, let me explain something to you: If I EVER catch you running your dog on a ball field, I will be in your grill. With a baseball bat. I will detain you until the police or animal control officers arrive, and I will press charges.

Then YOUR baseball league will be funding MY vacation home when the police arrest YOU for assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Oh, and you and the other league won't have to worry about any mergers, because YOUR league won't exist so THEIR league will win by default.

And BTW, the animal control officers won't even show up.

[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.

You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

This is exactly why we need ACTUAL dog parks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

AWLA doesn't enforce the leash law, and the County police don't intervene. So, again, why on Earth would I voluntarily use the poo-laden mud pit? Why would I skip past a perfectly manicured fenced-in baseball field? Or ignore a school playground, if my dog enjoys climbing structures? Why would I withhold those experiences in favor of a crowded "dog park"?

Seems absurd to me.

So, you think it is fine to disregard a law if you feel that you want got caught or punished. Idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is exactly why we need ACTUAL dog parks.

What so the pit bulls can just terrorize the rest of the dogs? No thanks.