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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again. I guess part of my question was also how other non-dog owner parents feel about the situation and whether I'm overly sensitive, but after what happened in AU Park, I think I'm not nuts if I think there is a risk.[/quote]

OP, I live in CCDC near Lafayette and recently had a very pleasant email communication with our police commander, asking him to have an officer patrol the upper park duing high kid traffic hours (weekend mornings).  The CCDC listserv has the same crazy arguments as this thread about once a year so I didnt bother to post there first.  same experience as you - playful dogs chasing balls or sticks, noy looking to eat children, but on the playground where my kids are.  They run down from the field where there is sort of a neighborhood truce about off leash dogs, and the owners stand there halfhartedly calling the dogs.  I got taken out at the knees once, and we've had plenty of hand sniffers, owner nowhere around.  My older kid is afraid of dogs, and while I'm om with the 'truce' on the firle, when the dogs creep down to the swings and climbers, i draw the line.

Dog owners, if you let them run free at Lafayette, Commander Reese is on the task.  Oh, and he also told me to all 911 if i see it.  [/quote]

Would be great if Commander Reese could also police Lincoln and Garfield parks in Capitol Hill.  PP, you describe Lincoln Park as, "a bit of a de facto dog park", and it is exactly this mushy attitude toward unleashed dogs there that has resulted in many many unleashed dogs there at all times of the day.  We just quit going there altogether.[/quote]

I can't tell you how many times I've seen dogs TEAR out of Lincoln Park across the street. I nearly ran over a woman who ran into the street after her dog (I hadn't seen the dog, so I wan't anticipating an adult to run helter skelter into traffic)  I can't understand why people keep their dogs off leash in a space like that. A) there are children B) there are people w/o children who would like to lie on a blanket and read a book, C) you can't predict a dog's behavior and D) IT IS ILLEGAL.

And I'm a dog owner and a parent.   [/quote]

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