I take my dog to the dog park because she needs to have a place where she can run. I live in a small town and when I go during weekdays, we usually find just one or two dogs in the park. I keep the dog on a leash when she is around other dogs so that I have better control of her behavior. This news story worries be but I think that letting your dog run unsupervised with a lot of other dogs isn't the only possibility. The dog owner has a lot of control of the situation.
(Emphasis mine.)
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it sounds like you are talking about having your dog on a leash, inside a dog park, where other dogs are off-leash. If so, I'm sure you must realize that you have no control over the behavior of the off-leash dogs, and no matter how well-behaved your own dog is, she could still be seriously injured by the off-leash dogs. It can happen in an instant, before you could do anything to stop it.
I apologize if I'm misunderstanding your post, Wayne, but I just feel it needs to be reiterated that you have no control over anything that happens at an off-leash dog park. That is why most members here are opposed to the idea.
The best trained dog with the best trainer has absolutely no control over the untrained dogs and the idiots that own them.
If your dog is attacked you can only hope you can control the situation but chances are your at the mercy of the other dog and any other dog that decides to add to the pile. That can and did happen in this particular instance. Many witnesses commented about a third dog that has not been found.
I take my dog to the dog park because she needs to have a place where she can run.
A dog park isn't the only place where you can run your dog. We live in a small city also and I use the bike trails, residential streets, city parks, and school athletic fields. We walk, jog, and even do road work with me on a bike and my dog on a leash. We even can just exercise our dog in our home or yard with fast-paced or extensive fetch or search games that get her hard panting, tongue dragging tired. If you just plain like dog parks, that's fine and I wish you good luck, but they are not the only option for getting your dog exercise.
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If you look through the actual "leash law" in many places there is a set of exemptions for dogs that are in training. Often it's just for hunting dogs. Most of the time even if you ask an AC officer they won't know about it. You really have to dig into the statutes to find it.
In my area there are exemptions for several classes of dogs in training including general obedience training with proof of training. I keep a copy of the law tucked into my bait pouch along with a certificate from an obedience class he took. I'm also sure to keep his license up to date.
We aren't quite up to off-leash yet but the leash law here stipulates a maximum length of 6 ft so I started carrying it when we went to a long line.
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I'm glad that here, the law states that the dog must be under the control and supervision by an adult...says nothing about a leash. That way if a dog is out of control dragging the owner around, its in violation of the leash law and if my dog is fetching a ball off leash and under control then we're fine. The acceptation to this is city parks where they must be on a lead but it doesn't specify how long and they don't enforce it unless the dog is a problem.
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Quote: Cheri Grissom
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it sounds like you are talking about having your dog on a leash, inside a dog park, where other dogs are off-leash. If so, I'm sure you must realize that you have no control over the behavior of the off-leash dogs, and no matter how well-behaved your own dog is, she could still be seriously injured by the off-leash dogs. It can happen in an instant, before you could do anything to stop it.
I apologize if I'm misunderstanding your post, Wayne, but I just feel it needs to be reiterated that you have no control over anything that happens at an off-leash dog park. That is why most members here are opposed to the idea.
Ditto! Emphasis mine!
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