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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your dog needs to have excellent recall, not be near a road, not near unfamiliar dogs/animals, etc.  Its really never a good idea to have your dog off leash unless you're completely fenced in.  If my dog had an unleashed dog approach she is likely to be defensive and fight.  [/quote]

Agree, I would only let a dog off leash with excellent recall. I'll bet your husband hasn't experienced the panic that ensues when you lose a dog, even just temporarily. It's pretty awful. Often, people who get a dog as an adult have this fantasy of a dog gamboling faithfully at their side, and they don't realize that dogs get lost fairly easily. Even 90% recall isn't good enough. It has to be 100% and it has to be a dog that isn't terribly scent driven. Beagles and scent hounds often get carried away following their nose. I let our last dog off leash often on local trails because he always came when called and he never wanted to be more than 20-30 feet away from me. But even so, when he was younger, he once got spooked in a park while off leash and ran out of the park, across a very busy road (with double decker buses) to the front step of our apartment building a block away. This was not in the us, where off leash dogs in the parks were allowed and very common. It was really unexpected and he never did anything like that again in his next 10 years, but I never let him off leash within 200 yards of the park entrance after that.
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