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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is an "unofficial" dog park near my house and some of my neighbors intentionally allow their dogs to run up on and hassle people who try to use the park for anything else, so that they leave and the dog people can have it to themselves. There's one guy in particular with an extremely friendly lab -- he will let her run up to people picnicking, kids playing, etc, and she'll just jump all over them, eat their food, lick them, etc. She's not aggressive but she has not been taught not to do those things to strangers and he just takes advantage of this to make people feel uncomfortable/unwelcome unless they are the sort of people who don't mind that kind of interaction with a dog.

I think it's really obnoxious. At one point I suggested at a neighborhood committee meeting that we ask the city if we could fence off a portion of this park for an official dog run, since there's an obvious need. This was opposed by a lot of the dog owners who currently use the park for off leash dogs, because they don't want to be confined to a portion of the park -- they want the whole thing. It's a big park -- a full city block.[/quote]

"But my dog needs to run!!!!" Yeah, you shouldn't have gotten a sporting dog if you live in an apartment with no yard.

I would sit in that park with a camera and animal control on speed dial. I might even splurge and set up a wifi-connected camera, just to keep track of the regulars. Some people need to get hurt before they learn, and better they get hurt in the wallet with a fine than when their dog gets hurt and the have a vet bill (or worse, their dog hurts someone else and it's court costs and damages).[/quote]

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