Park Bullies

[Deeds]

Do other Dolers experience this.  You get to the park and your dog is leashed.  But running around in the park is the well known attack dog.  And because you don't want your dog attacked you walk the long way round to avoid it.  And the park bully who owns the dog is of course oblivious to other park users.

 

This puts the responsibility solely on the person with the leashed dog who is not the problem. The same dog is walked by teenagers on the weekend who just let it wander around the park unleashed while they sit on a park bench glued to their phone and obviously not watching or looking at the dog.

 

I had to share this because it gives me the absolute s...s.  And I'm sure I'm not the only one who experiences this type of behaviour from idiot dog owners.  No use talking to the owner.  She couldn't care less.

 

 

[persephone]

Can Council not help ? It's terribly rude and unfair

[jemappelle]

I had this happen to me at a dog park when travelling.  It was empty so in we went, 5 minutes later a bloke turns up with two 2 huge dogs, looking on his phone, then sits down and turns away from his dogs to do more on his phone.  So annoying.  We left!

[Daisys Mum]

Yes this has happened to me.. which is why I don’t go to dog parks anymore.

[Dogsfevr]

Phone the council .
People need to start making the rangers do their job .
But its the last place i would take my dog anyway .
Also  buy a body camera great for videoing these issues if anything does happen 

[Loving my Oldies]

100% right, @Deeds.  But sadly, you could apply that over much of how society operates today.  Call someone out on poor behaviour and you are told YOU are the problem.  And you’ll be lucky not to get some physical reaction.  It is horrible.  

[Deeds]

@Loving my OldiesYou are absolutely correct.  Of course it would be my fault for daring to be in the park.   And again you are correct it is horrible.

 

And worse still it has become normal behaviour these days.  I used to think it was only in my area but unfortunately it's everywhere and applies to everything not just dogs.

[Adrienne]

I have had to learn the hard way not to say anything to other dog owners if they are doing the wrong thing with their dogs in public. No matter how calmly or nicely you tell a rank dog owner that what they are doing is wrong/unsafe for other people/dogs you will be shouted and sworn at.  Grown ass men are the worst for it - so entitled, so ignorant and so ready to abuse anyone who dares point out a thing to them. 

 

 

[Kazm]

Adrienne, I do have to agree. Everyone seems to believe they own the ‘perfect’ dog. 

[tdierikx]

15 hours ago, Kazm said:

Adrienne, I do have to agree. Everyone seems to believe they own the ‘perfect’ dog. 

 

Or think it's ok to excuse bad behaviours of their dogs by saying "it's a rescue"... grrr!

 

T.

[asal]

so many dogs dead because people go to dog parks.

 

safer to walk the street for exercise, but carry a big (walking) stick

Edited November 7 by asal

[asal]

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[Boronia]

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[jemappelle]

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[sandgrubber]

I'm in Marlborough NZ.  I regularly walk my two Springers off leash in river reserves (two different ones).  These allow kilometers of walking/running/cycling in an area unsuitable for development due to occasional flooding.  Have never had a problem.  A few people keep dogs on leash because they are not social.

Parks may not work, but tracks can be good, at least in smaller cities.