This Dog Park, prior to recent disturbing events, would've gotten 10 stars. It has large small dog…read morearea, which is the section I used with my two small dogs. However, in recent visits, there are a number of issues that are causing my decision to not go to this park anymore. 1. There is an elderly woman who is bringing her older lighter brown female dog into the park that has attacked my 4 month old female puppy viciously 3 times. At one visit, the older lighter brown female dog was already in the park and attacked my female puppy immediately as my puppy entered the park. I was able to separate them, and the elderly woman scolded her dog, and I went ahead on in with the assurance of the elderly woman that she would control her dog. But a few minutes later, the older lighter brown female dog went after my female puppy even more viciously. After I separated them again, the elderly woman took her older lighter brown female dog out of the dog park.
2. Another day, this same elderly woman came to the park after I was already in the park and on the far side of the park. As is common practice for the dogs already in the park, many, if not all of them, rush to the entrance gate to greet the incoming dogs. My two small dogs were amongst four other dogs who all ran to the entrance gate to greet the incoming dog, which was the older lighter brown female dog, who immediately singled out my female puppy out of the group of dogs that had gone to the entrance gate and once again viciously attacked my female puppy. I happened to have notice the elderly woman getting out of her car and identified the older lighter brown female dog that had attacked my female puppy previously, so I was quickly making my way to the entrance gate, but the older lighter brown female dog had already started viciously attacking my 4 month old female puppy. I was able to swoop up my female puppy and also my male puppy and immediately left the dog park. The elderly woman, whose dog attacked my dog, made no effort to apologize, or make sure my dog was ok. This elderly woman should not be allowed to bring her vicious dog into the dog park.
2. A Sunday visit to the dog park later in the early evening one of my dogs jumped up onto the table under the canopy and fortunately I was near by and was getting him down off the table, but what had caught his immediate attention was someone had left a bunch of religious booklets across the table top with beef jerky pieces laid on top of each of the booklets. I appreciate folks wanting to exploit dog park visitors with their religious beliefs, but leaving beef laying out with the booklets shows an ignorance and complete lack of respect for the rules and common sense aspects of a dog park not to bring food products into the dog park, whether it is people food, dog food, dog treats, etc. and to try to lure the dogs in the park to the jerky so the pets owner sees their religious booklets is a vicious and mean thing to do. Many dogs could end up getting sick of the jerky, or worse choke on it and die.
3. Another time a family of wild kids came in with sack lunches and the kids running wild in the park. This caused a regular visitor to the park to leave without coming into the park. I am deadset against children being allowed to play in a dog park, since that is disruptive to the dogs... After all, dogs aren't allowed in children's parks... And the head of the family acted surprised when advised that people food was not allowed in the dog park... As I pointed that out, several dogs jumped up on the table and went after the bags of food as soon as the bags of food were placed on the table.
Whoever is managing this park needs to take a more active role in making sure vicious dogs are kept out of the park and folks are better informed about not bringing any kind of food stuffs, snacks, etc. into the park. But... we responsible pet owners are able to self regulate... It is the folks who just simply don't care that ruin it for everyone else.
