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Originally Posted by DerbyLayne  Where I live in the city, the big dog/small dog seperate dog park is a 30 minute street car ride away. I can hit 3 off leash dog parks within 15 minute walking distance. I tend to go for what's convenient and the other park is a nice "treat" although their fenced in areas are so small. the other parks are huge!
I hear what you are saying though. I guess I never thought about it? Derby gets humped all the time (by fixed and unfixed dogs), and he's fixed. While I don't agree with letting an unfixed dog run wild with other dogs (for fear of unwanted pregnancies), I have never seen any real agression from these dogs. I guess i'm just lucky!!
But how would you monitor this stuff? offleash dog parks in a big park area with no fencing is really hard to do. |
Makes sense, I don't blame you for hitting up the closest ones! But wow, I've never heard of unfenced dog park, maybe that's just me? I wouldn't trust Jackson not to wander off! And believe me, I'm not even one of these totally overprotective crazy dog parents lol, he gets allowed to do alot
I do agree, even fixed dogs hump, etc and Jackson's been humped a few times but in my experience, the dogs with their jewels all hanging out
have always been the ones to cause trouble!
The park I go to costs $40 for yearly pass, it's a big state park with a dog park inside. It's about a 20-25 minute drive for me. It's $6 for one time entry fee. So I'm fairly certain most people that are willing to pay for their dogs to enter a park aren't gonna be these totally irresponsible people(not always the case... but I think it's part of what makes our park so nice!)
Now, there's another park that's about a 15 minute drive from me and it's free. It's really nice and has small/big sections but the small side rarely has other dogs in it except on the weekends. The big dog side always has at least 1 or 2 other dogs! I have let Jackson in the big dog side before if it's only between 1-4 big dogs and I scope them out first and see their energy and if it will be ok. Jackson is a bigger boy at over 12lbs but it still just worries me!