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I'm gonna be a little bit ranting here, so forgive me if I sound like I'm "off the wall".
I take my 5 month old puppy to the dog park (DP) frequently. EVERY single time, there's always one male intact dog that has to hump my spayed female dog. I'm sick of it, seriously. Yesterday was a bit of a final straw where a bulldog was REALLY going after Stardust. Stardust was trying to escape (by tucking her tail in and staying on my side. I ended up grabbing Stardust and holding her while in embarrassment as the bulldog started to go after my leg.
I go to two different parks to give her a variety. Both of these parks, there's a handful of male dogs that are intact. It drives me crazy to see them "mark" the picnic benches (one dog actually had the nerve to mark Stardust's water bottle..that was a little gross for my taste), while no one actually clean those benches. I see like 5 or 6 male dogs going after the very few females, and each other, and they're all intact.
I once asked a lady that frequents the park about why there's so many dogs that are not neutered. She says to me that it's all about alpha dog and aggression issues. Many of these people want to have their boy dogs to be tough and not be submissive to others.
I want Stardust to really enjoy going to the dog park, but I always have to keep an eye out for her and scoop her up if a male dog decides to do the limbo. The owners of these dogs doesn't seem to care. There has been a couple owners that would grab their dog and just hit them on the face (yeah, like that's gonna stop them).
Another thing that drives me batty - if a dog park has two separate pens. One for small dogs under 35 pounds, and the other for over 35 pounds. What the heck are these owners thinking that they can bring their 80 pound labs into the small dog pen? On Saturday, Stardust was being chased by a little too assertive 60 pound dog! She's little! Stardust does like to be chased and run around, but when a larger dog goes after her, I get worried, especially when she gets flipped around a couple times.
I understand that many people have two different sizes dog, but I think the larger dog should stay in the large dog pen with EXCEPTION if the dog is a much older dog and very quiet and well behaved (there's a couple that I see that doesn't care about the little dogs). I just wished people would follow the rules. It's there for a reason. I'm always worried that my dog will one day get attacked by a much larger dog that doesn't belong there in the first place....especially one that is not neutered.
Does this happen to a lot of dog parks?
I take my 5 month old puppy to the dog park (DP) frequently. EVERY single time, there's always one male intact dog that has to hump my spayed female dog. I'm sick of it, seriously. Yesterday was a bit of a final straw where a bulldog was REALLY going after Stardust. Stardust was trying to escape (by tucking her tail in and staying on my side. I ended up grabbing Stardust and holding her while in embarrassment as the bulldog started to go after my leg.
I go to two different parks to give her a variety. Both of these parks, there's a handful of male dogs that are intact. It drives me crazy to see them "mark" the picnic benches (one dog actually had the nerve to mark Stardust's water bottle..that was a little gross for my taste), while no one actually clean those benches. I see like 5 or 6 male dogs going after the very few females, and each other, and they're all intact.
I once asked a lady that frequents the park about why there's so many dogs that are not neutered. She says to me that it's all about alpha dog and aggression issues. Many of these people want to have their boy dogs to be tough and not be submissive to others.
I want Stardust to really enjoy going to the dog park, but I always have to keep an eye out for her and scoop her up if a male dog decides to do the limbo. The owners of these dogs doesn't seem to care. There has been a couple owners that would grab their dog and just hit them on the face (yeah, like that's gonna stop them).
Another thing that drives me batty - if a dog park has two separate pens. One for small dogs under 35 pounds, and the other for over 35 pounds. What the heck are these owners thinking that they can bring their 80 pound labs into the small dog pen? On Saturday, Stardust was being chased by a little too assertive 60 pound dog! She's little! Stardust does like to be chased and run around, but when a larger dog goes after her, I get worried, especially when she gets flipped around a couple times.
I understand that many people have two different sizes dog, but I think the larger dog should stay in the large dog pen with EXCEPTION if the dog is a much older dog and very quiet and well behaved (there's a couple that I see that doesn't care about the little dogs). I just wished people would follow the rules. It's there for a reason. I'm always worried that my dog will one day get attacked by a much larger dog that doesn't belong there in the first place....especially one that is not neutered.
Does this happen to a lot of dog parks?
