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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you very much for all the suggestions and the kind words! I am definitely going to check out the All Trails app suggested up thread, Brookside Gardens, and the other trails suggested. Also appreciation to the dog owners who have posted that keep their dogs leashed.

To the few posters who have posted that this has never happened to me, I'm letting fear rule my life, etc, I can assure you that I have been approached in public and touched by dogs before. There have been many other narrow misses, and it gets really stressful to have to keep an eye out for dogs and have the same conversation over and over. Also, most people consider dogs "part of the family" and some people get almost personally offended if you do not want to interact with their dog and will try to push the issue. I don't let fear rule my life but I have a medical problem I take responsibility for (trying to find activities we can do and not have to worry about dogs, carrying medication, trying a vast number of different treatments for it) and I also want to go on outings with my family, just like you. [/quote]

I get it OP.  I really do.  I have a child with a deadly dog allergy.  Forget bring licked or having a dog brush up to you...she has had reactions when a dog simply passes within 10 feet of her.  The last time that happened her face swelled up and her eyelids swelled shut.  Before doing allergy shots she could not go over to friends houses with dogs and she had to be seated at a table at school with kids who didn’t have dogs.  You have probably tried this already, but allergy shots have really lessened her reactions (did not stop them, just made them bearable and not life threatening).  We were told they would be about 50% effective.  So far so good...but she is still careful.  It’s really hard though.  Dogs are everywhere and yes, people think
of them as family members.  My family has just grown a thick skin.  My daughters life is more important than whether I offend somebody about their dog
 ( I’m never mean about it, but people are taken aback when you do t want Fido near you).[/quote]

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