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Originally Posted by fotze
Who are these people that are able to control every movement of their dog with high accuracy. I've probably seen 3 or 4 in all the years of going to dog parks and its a super old dog or a military precision dog that does not leave the owners side, inwhich case, not much point in going to the off-leash park anyway.
If you are taking leashed dogs to the off-leash dog park and expect the off leash dogs to not come up to your dogs, that is an outlandishly unrealistic expectation. That would require all dog owners and dogs to go on intensive 7 day a week training for the first 2 years of the dogs life. Take 10 dogs and their owners and 9.9 of them could not guarantee that they would not go fart around your leashed dog.
Also, a leashed dog is a dog that is less able to defend itself, some of them are not cool with it when other unleashed dogs are around. They are cornered.
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LOL, my miniature Dachshund looks like a rogue torpedo that lost it's target at the dog park. But it is different with a smaller dog. You don't have to worry about her killing someone if she gets pissed. And that is the entire argument here:
-You get attacked by a 10 pound wiener dog, you have a mildly upsetting incident which one day turns into hilariously awesome scar on your ankle story.
-You get attacked by the Pitbull, you get to live the rest of your life without a lower jaw and you get to speak through on of those neck microphones.
My dog has gotten aggressive with people before where she has bared her teeth, and made a lunge, and it is as simple as a quick yank with my finger on her leash, and she is done. That is not realistic with a attack dog.