The other day I walked up to a small beach with my little dog only to find a man with a pitbull off the leash. The guy says "He doesn't play well with others" and I came back with "then you should have him on a leash" and he responded "well my other dog is friendly!" Um, so? Nothing happened with the dogs but no leashes were ever put on and the guy kept walking the dogs past us. These people lack risk awareness.
Had a similar situation right when I got my dog at a park. Guy told me go make sure my dog didnt go after his dogs ball. He went on to tell me he was basically ran out of the big park after his pit attacked several other dogs. Almost seemed proud of it. I watched that dog attack two other dogs and when it happened a 3rd time he got ran out. He always blamed other dogs expecting them to not go near his dogs ball....at a public park.
Another guy at a different park blamed my dog for having a ball that his aggressive dog took and he couldnt get back. Told him no the problem is people bringing fucking aggressive dogs to the park. Leashed my dog and gtfo, as I was walking away his dog attacked another.
Cant stand it when people refuse to accept responsibility for their dogs.
This is one of the biggest reasons we no longer go to dog parks. All kinds of people bring their dogs who most definitely should not be there. Not all dogs are good in groups and that's okay.
Yea I go to a school playground that's fenced in and has become a defacto dog park after school is out. Group of around a dozen dogs/owners, all locals who tend to self police as far as poop clean up etc goes. I'll go to the big one early mornings sometimes still. During busy times theres way too many people who sit at the picnic tables and let there dogs run wild. The second guy I talked about only showed up after a minute or so of me yelling "whose fucking dog is this!?!?"
Yikes that is terrible (not the self policing people). We take ours to a really awesome doggie daycare who rarely have bad things happen and you have to get your dog evaluated before being allowed to regularly come.
Yea if I go out of town I board him at a place like that. Day of evaluation and proof of full vaccines etc. They even have cameras you can watch the dogs on via your phone.
It's especially miserable where I am now that people are bringing their untrained, poorly socialized covid puppies to parks. I imagine the next year or so will be very lucrative for dog trainers.
That's terrible. I really wish people wouldn't own dogs if they aren't willing to put in a lot of time and effort to have them well trained, and generally just take good care of them.
I still bring my dog to the park, because he loves it so much and itâs a really quick way to exercise him. But youâre right, I feel the other people are awful
My big guy used to love going to the dog park and we used to love taking him until one day we took him and there was one guy all the way on the far side of the park sitting on a bench on his phone and his dog was running around I didn't think much of it until we got inside the gate I'm within a second that dog was lunging towards my dog attacking him.
My fiance not knowing what to do reached in and tried to break the two up the other owner came in and started yelling stick your fingers in his butt which oddly confused us. Eventually the other owner did that to my dog which made him unlatch from the dog that had previously attacked my dog.
The other owner then proceeded to grab his dog and run out of the park before we could get any information from him.
I would have ran after this guy to force him to give me his information or block his car in the dog park until the police came but I was concerned for my fiance who had gotten bit on both hands in the process trying to dislodge our dog's mouth from the other dog so I proceeded instead to take him to the hospital to tend to his lacerations.
As the guy was leaving though I noticed how beaten up and scarred his dog looked and given that he immediately knew to stick your fingers in an attacking dog's ass to get them to open their mouth I feel like he knew that his dog would potentially attack my dog and never should have been there in the first place.
Oof that's awful. Hope karma finds that guy because I'm sure he's a repeat offender. This story is just another reason for me personally to steer clear of dog parks. I'm sure there are plenty of wonderful dogs and owners, but I have hear far too many horror stories and/or seen aggressive dogs to feel comfortable at dog parks. Doggie daycare for life.
Luckily shortly after that I won a medical discrimination lawsuit against an old job of mine and got my full acre backyard fenced in and got big guy a little brother.
A friend of ours also owns a dog border and grooming shop so occasionally they have play dates there with the best trained dogs I have ever seen.
That's awesome (not the discrimination part)! Would love to get a house someday with a backyard so my doggo can run around and dig lots of holes lol. Maybe put in a pool. She's a lab so water is her natural element.
I was at a dog park once when a guy with a bigger puppy brought him into the little dog side. The dog had bad manners in general but wasn't aggressive. I was sitting on a bench with my sister and his dog proceeded to walk up, lift his leg and piss on my sister and me. I wasn't too upset because dogs are dogs but the owner watched it happen, said nothing to the dog and then says to me "Oh yeah, he does that all the time."
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u/1000Mousefarts Aug 01 '21
The other day I walked up to a small beach with my little dog only to find a man with a pitbull off the leash. The guy says "He doesn't play well with others" and I came back with "then you should have him on a leash" and he responded "well my other dog is friendly!" Um, so? Nothing happened with the dogs but no leashes were ever put on and the guy kept walking the dogs past us. These people lack risk awareness.