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[quote=Anonymous]I would ask nicely first.  It doesn't have to be confrontational and some dogowners are more oblivious than anything else.   "Hey, would you mind leashing your dogs, at least while my toddlers are here?  Thanks."    If they insist they have nice, boring dogs who would never chase a child, they could be right, but you are still within your rights to explain as you do above.   "Sure, it's not that I don't believe you, but I don't know your dogs and my kids don't know how to behave around dogs.  It would be safest for everybody - kids and dog - if you would leash your dog."  And if that doesn't work or they get nasty, call animal control.

Note, I am a doglover, and I have been known to let my dogs run offleash in empty, enclosed parks and sparsely populated trails at off hours (like 530am), but I never do it when I think we might run into people - especially children, because children pretty much never know how to act around dogs and many adults do not.  I would be mortified and apologetic if someone had to ask me to leash the dog.[/quote]

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