eek me thinks not is exactly what i was vying for, thanks yelp!
yes the dreaded 1 star review, which for a dog park must be pretty messed up, care to listen? great pull up a stump and hear what i got to say.
so this use to be sniffington's main playground, it was completely fenced in, no worries of him getting out and into the street (beagle owners#1 nightmare) and the place usual has 'good' dogs that behave for the most part. we would go and he would play for an hour or so and then we would drive back to home base and reap the rewards, usually a day of solitude from our tired pup. keep in mind this place is a good 45 minutes away from home base, but thats what we do as dog people (so this should have been at least 3-4 stars for the pups sake alone), am i wrong? so im not upset about this, we accepted it as the way it has to be. would any town within 128 open a dog park, hey that would be nice, but it didnt happen as this went to press. so whats the 1 star about jerms? glad you asked....
so a few months ago we piled into the car and drove-out west to medway for some k9 fun, and thats what we had. sniffy did the usual running, teasing and hiding under the picnic table as written in his basic code of conduct. now the locals of medway created a set of rules last year and while i was in grad school last year i would go during the day and all these stay-at-homes would gather around and let they dogs play and basically talk trash bout outsiders and create these said by-laws in their heads about what they wanted in their dog park: membership tags (we had one), no kids in trees, no pit bulls, no eating, basic stuff...you can look it up on their website. whatever, its good to have these rules and better if properly enforced.
so anyway, we are playing and its winding down for our four legged friend, he was just sniffing around a fern patch when i hear a dog scrum on the other side of the park. now for those of you who dont know, sometimes when you have two very playful and aggressive dogs in the same place, things can get heated between them, why? dont know they cant talk, but when it happens, its best to separate them and let them chill for a few and they will go back to play as if nothing happened, i would say a good owner will watch their dog and make this happens (in the bylaws too!) ok, well this last time, we heard two dogs getting crazy so we go to restrain sniffy so he doesnt go looking for trouble (which he never does other the take toys and run under the picnic table, silly boy) and it appears these dogs are really going at it. so one of the dogowners who i would always see and i believe helped create the bylaws (local) goes over and attempts to peel of this one dog off of his dog from the other aggressive dog, and the one dog bites his hand, he did not respond well, but was able to get the attacking dog off of his dog. well the owner of the attacking dog didnt like someone touching his dog (even though he should have been on top of it) and got all in the face of the man with a bitten hand now, and started to pummel this other guy. big mistake, the one guy was an off duty franklin police office and quickly subdued the dude and threw him on the ground AND THEN PULLED OUT A CONCEALED HANDGUN AND POINTED IT AT THE ONE MAN WITH THE ATTACKING DOG. so they you go, you will not see in the bylaws anything about bringing in weapons into the dog park, so i guess its ok do so. hey dogs, little kids, guns, makes sense.
we didnt stick around to see what came of the whole situation, we only saw the offduty cop call the town of medway requesting some police backup and reporting assaulting a cop and a dog bite and such.the other guy was quiet upset and didnt want to be reported and whanot. im not too sure what charges were filed, but decided that we were no longer going to the park with the guns. hey, even if the cop wasnt there, what would have happened if it was just two regular owners? dont know you go and let me know the results.
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