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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get that it's annoying but Battery Kemble has been a de facto off-leash dog park for at least the 20 years I've been taking my dog there and likely much longer. There is essentially 0% chance that this is going to change for many reasons, not the least among them that the entitled off-leash walkers are among the richest, most powerful, and influential residents of the city.

My advice to you is don't go there if you don't like it, and learn to let things go. [/quote]

You are disregarding a few relevant considerations.

NPS installed new signage a year or two ago that makes the prohibition on unleashed dogs - and the associated penalties - much clearer than it was before.

NPS did not need to incur the cost and hassle of designing and installing those signs and would have done so if they were OK with it being a “de facto” dog park. Claiming that it is OK to walk unleashed dogs there is about as dumb as claiming that people should shoplift because there aren’t cops standing outside every store waiting to shoot those who don’t pay.

It’s an open question whether the Park Police is enforcing the law. The word is that they are just letting dog owners off with warnings. I have no first hand evidence that this is true.

But I do know that there are folk in the community - rich, entitled, influential folk too, I’d post - pressuring NPS to crack down on the problem. There have been a number of people and (leashed) dogs bitten by unleashed dogs over the past few years and the only way to stop this from happening is for the Park Police to make a point of handing out fines to offenders.[/quote]

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