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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not something I used to think anything about one way or another if the dog was well behaved and didn't cause issues.

Now I have a kid who is just terrified of dogs. We're working through it and it's gotten much better in the last year, but she's still stressed around dogs and we have to manage it if we go to a friend's house with dogs or are anywhere that dogs are unleashed.

So now I get really frustrated when people bring dogs to schools and ignore "no dogs" signs and "dogs must be leashed" signs. It's one thing at a park where we have the choice to leave, but my kid should be able to be at or around her school without having to stress about dogs. That's why dogs aren't allowed, actually -- it saves everyone the trouble of having to worry about child safety around dogs.

Today I will go pick up my DD after school and I 100% guarantee there will be at least 5 people with dogs at pickup (they are explicitly not allowed) and at least one of those dogs will be unleashed. And if I say anything, I'm the jerk.

I'm pretty tired of it.[/quote]

You have to live in the world as it is rather than how you wish.  I can't take my dog to certain locations at certain times.   I have to deal.

Lean on the principal for school pick up or drop off but know that it might be easier for her to over her fear.  You can only control yourself[/quote]

My daughter getting over her fear and people violating these rules to bring their dogs wherever are actually separate issues. Of course my daughter needs to get over her fear, it's something we work on all the time like we would any phobia. We want to adopt a dog so it's important to us that we deal with this. But that's a private family matter.

That's totally independent of whether these people should be bringing dogs to a place filled with kids where dogs are explicitly not allowed. Everyone thinks THEIR dog is the exception but dogs are animals and even a very well behaved dog might be startled or triggered by something random in an environment like that and good bite a kid or knock one over. That's why you aren't supposed to bring dogs. And even the people who DO bring dogs would be upset if people who had ill-behaved dogs brought them, right. So they just shouldn't bring dogs.

I've complained about this at PTA meetings and to the administration. They'll reiterate the dog rule via email and then people will continue to bring their dogs, plus now some people think I hate dogs (I don't). Some dog people are just entitle a$$holes.[/quote]

I hope your daughter is able to work through this - it seems like the entitled/inconsiderate dog owners are a growing lobby. I have some trauma regarding dogs (bite requiring stitiches as a child + another bite later on requiring rabies shots, both from other's pets) and I also have a child with severe allergies. I realize I'm more and more in the minority of someone who wants the rules to be respected on these things. I don't hate dogs and don't mind them on a patio if they are leashed or whatever. I'm uncomfortable with strange large off leash dogs, no matter how friendly they appear. But your dog's anxiety is more important than mine I guess.[/quote]

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