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Originally Posted by FireFly
You're walking in an off-leash area and you want people to put their dogs on leashes? Perhaps find a walking area that's on-leash only.
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I can't speak for Nose Hill, but the problem with a lot of off-leash areas is that they run adjacent to pathways with no physical barrier between them. People who are using the pathway as designed, who want nothing to do with other people's dogs, aren't entering the off-leash area, but because people can't/won't control their dogs, the dogs are still going onto the pathway.
One that always annoyed me was near the entrance to Sandy Beach in Altadore. There's an off-leash area at 50th Ave and 14A St and the pathway is close to the off-leash area, but the off-leash area ends before the pathway. The problem is that there's nothing to indicate the pathway isn't part of the off-leash area. There's no fence, no sign, nothing.
The City's map of the park shows that the off-leash area ends before the path, but try explaining a map to your dog:
http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Parks/Doc...leash-area.pdf
I personally never felt threatened by a dog there, but I've seen some close encounters between dogs and cyclists there.