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Originally Posted by J-bo09
What world do you guys live in where dog owners are irresponsible at 50% level? Not saying they are perfect, but sounds like an aggressive number which the numbers do not really support. I frequent a number of off-leash areas and have had maybe two incidents with dog on dog in 15 years (more a smaller dog getting frightened by a big dog, then a dog being aggressive) and never an outright attack.
There is only one area that a dog should be off-leash and that is a designated park (I've even admit in another dog walking thread I was a little misguided about dogs being off-leash) and never have I walked around where a dog was just running up and around communites, unless it escaped from the yard or something.
That is in 3 communities of Bridlewood, Varsity and Mission.
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I see dogs offleash in many parks that are not designated offleash - it is really not that uncommon of a sight. I cannot comment on offleash parks as I have owned a dog in years as I do not feel I have the available time/schedule to be a responsible owner.
An easy way to gauge (rightly or wrongly) how well a dog is trained is to simply look at how they behave while on a leash. If a dog constantly pulls on the leash I think it is reasonable to assume that the owner has failed, neglected or ignored other areas of training as well. I stand by my statement that most owners are too lazy to do it right (if at all).