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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all honesty, as a professional trainer, this is a good example of why I tell my clients to avoid the dog park.  People don't understand how to read dog behavior, and different dogs have different play styles.

Likely everything was fine.  But equally likely, the dogs were under some stress (being somewhere new, with new dogs) and therefore react quicker and behave differently. It just takes a single bad incident to create a lifetime of fear and reactivity.

Much better to have backyard playdates with one or two dogs you've met and know to be a similar play style to your own. Dogs are much happier to have recurring friends rather than a new mix every time.

But yes, if you plan to go to the dog park around here you have to accept that dogs are going to interact.  In other parts of the country there are off leash parks that are acres of trails and woods and lakes where it is reasonable to expect your dog to avoid other dogs.  In the DC metro, they are half acre plots with dirt and nothing to do other than rough house with other dogs.

Just don't bring toys. Then you are the A.[/quote]

Yup, counterintuitively, dog parks can be really unsafe for dogs.  It drives me nuts that MoCo is converting park space to dog parks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/smarter-living/the-dog-park-is-bad-actually.html#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20biggest%20dangers,choose%20to%20disregard%20those%20spaces.&text=From%20minor%20scuffles%20to%20serious,common%2C%20even%20from%20rough%20play. [/quote]

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