Quick & Easy answer......FENCE!! HAHA. It was a dog park so the area was fenced in. They have a nice sized area fenced off for small/medium sized dogs and adjacent to that there is a larger fenced in area for larger dogs. If you go to an official dog park, there should be a fenced in area where you should be free to let them off leash while inside the fence.
I do have a couple that do very well & are trained off leash outside. I know with my older girl, when I first got her as a puppy, I used to take her outside late at night(I'm a night owl so it's not uncommon to catch me on the porch at 11PM at night sometimes), or really early when I knew noone would be out & about to distract her and we used to walk up & down the street. She doesn't use one to this day...she stops at curbs until I tell her it's okay to cross. When she see's people, she gets excited sometimes, especially if one of the neighbors calls or starts talking to her but she will not go to the them unless I say it is okay. She's more of a people person than dog person so if there's another dog, she will not go anywhere...she doesn't even chase birds, squirrels, etc. just looks at them as they go by...LOL
I do however, put a harness on her when we go to the vet & unfamiliar places of course...you have to b e very careful with that. |