dog parks?

[dntd]

Ok today I took my puppy to the dog park, this one has a large and small dog area.A buddy is a husky crss puppy he's in between sizes, today I chose the big dog area as he needs to be socialized with larger dogs. Everything when ok at first except the fact one jack russle decided to hump my dog constantly. Almost at the end of our visit a doberman puppy who was 5 months( buddy is 31/2 months) kept pinning and roughly biting him( not to draw blood but puppy biting), the owner of the doberman would pull him off then release hhim but he would come back to attack my dog, the owner got peeved that we were in the big dog area, there were many tiny dogs even a pug in that side. Who was wrong? I feel I should have been able to bring him into the large dog area without him being constantlt attacked and her dog has agression issues needing to be trained out plain and simple! buddy is getting too big to be playing with the itty bitty dogs, the owner actually said to me she NEVER took her dog to the park until 4 months, her dog was only a bit bigger then mine .

 

[equine chick]

We have a dog park near my job. They have some pretty strict regulations, no agressive dogs, 2 vets checked and approved for the park and a 30.00 month fee for owners. I don't use it since we have a small farm but know others that do and I thought some regulations were a bit silly but looking at what happened to your pup I see why.

 

[NurseELB]

It won't matter which side you go to, someone's gonna be upset. As long as your dog has had it's shots, you're fine. When we go to the DP and run into an aggressive dog we move to another side of the park. One of the things that helps is to keep the dogs moving while you are there. We let them off leash, but we walk the inside fence, all the way around. The dogs inadvertently follow us, and we meet other dogs as we walk, stop for a second so they can say hello, and then keep moving. Keeps them out of trouble.

 

[redhen]

I wish we had a dog park here...

 

[dntd]

The city just built a new one walking distance, location is great as it's near a splash pad. The other is nice it in a large wodded park that has a swimming pool. Our city needs to crack down on the leash law really in one year only 44 fines were given, we have more then that in a day come to the park across the street without a leash, lots of fights and running dogs make the park less enjoyable.

 

[SillyChicken]

I'm not a fan of dog parks... it's just a great set up for something bad to happen. Not worth the risk or liability.

 

[arabianequine]

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I was thinking that exact same thing till I got to your post.

I lived in reno nevada for a year and they had one there but I did not have a big dog then.

 

[arabianequine]

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I would worry about that too.

 

[PotterWatch]

We have several dog parks around here but one in particular that we go to fairly often. I only ever have my dogs on the large dog side since my dogs are bigger, not huge, but around 65-70lbs each. I get peeved at people who bring small dogs or young puppies into the large dog area, but only if they are being unreasonable in their expectations. We often have people walk through the large dog area with their little ankle-biter and get angry when it is scared because the larger dogs are coming up to it to sniff it

. There is an entrance to the small dog area where they don't have to walk through the whole park so I feel they should use that entrance, not get mad at my dog for acting like a dog. People who have very fearful or young dogs should also be on the small dog side if their dog is overwhelmed by the larger dogs.

However, that doesn't sound like the case for you. I have one of those dogs that will bark and be overwhelming to dogs and I realize that it is my dog causing the problem (we are currently working with a trainer to deal with it). When he starts in barking and being a jerk, I correct him. If he continues and I am unable to correct him, I nab him and we leave. If it were just normal playing that the other dog couldn't deal with, it should probably go to the other side. In any case, owners need to be in enough control of their dogs to get them to leave a dog alone that doesn't wish to be played with. If they can't keep their dog under control, they should do what I end up doing sometimes and leave. As far as her not taking her dog to the park until he was 4mos, that is pretty normal. Our park doesn't allow dogs under four months old. They have to be up to date on all their shots to be at the park and a dog under four months is not old enough to have all its shots yet.

 

[Tala]

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Yeah that.

Not every dog is super-social, which is fine, but there are too many block head owners who take a snippy dog out to the park to "socialize it" .......