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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a dog lover but I've recently encountered several awful dog owners with off leash dogs at city parks. What's going on? Or you guys staging some kind of protest? Just for the record, letting your poorly trained dogs assault people and other dogs at the park and then getting defensive when people yell at you for not putting your dog on a leash is not the way to get what you want.

I also see off leash dogs all the time that don't bother me, because they are well behaved and can obviously handle being off leash while in mixed company with kids, other dogs, etc. It's only the people with out of control dogs who run off constantly and get aggressive with other people who get yelled at for letting their dog off leash. The problem isn't the leash laws, it's that you have a dog that you haven't invested enough time or energy in to acclimate them to these environments, or your dog simply does not have the personality for being off leash in busy public areas. If your off leash dog will bound up to strangers uninvited, get aggressive with other dogs, and won't heed your commands, then honestly, your dog should never be off leash in an urban setting. This is why people in cities or dense neighborhoods should be thoughtful about adopting a dog. Some dogs are just not suited to city life, full stop.[/quote]

[b]This is just not true.[/b] And you would not know that unless you owned a dog. My dogs are old and slow and don't care about other people. Their only interest in the woods are odors of all kinds.  It's not the behavior of my dogs that results in hostility. Some officious and angry people take it upon themselves to enforce laws and decide they can yell at dog owners merely because their dogs are off leash. Of course, there are bad dogs and bad dog owners. Personally, i can't stand the idea of pit buils  walking off leash. They are aggressive and unpredictable. They are responsible for a majority of dog bites. I put my dog on a leash if i see anyone approaching - including if i see  another dog that is on leash. But this city needs to catch up with the modern times and set aside several sites of several acres for the thousands of dogs that live in every quadrant. It's a little like having bike lanes. If there is a bike lane available and I still insist in biking down the middle of Rock Creek Parkway, I'm an obnoxious, self important biker - deserving of being honked at. But if there is no bike lane, maybe I don't have a choice - and I do have an absolute right to ride my bike in Washington DC.[/quote]

So you are telling one person that their anecdotal observations are not true by replacing it with your personal anecdotal experience.

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