[MandiesMom]

She's just short sighted to her own wants. Plain and simple.

I've never known a town not to have a leash law. Shouldn't be a surprise to her that this is happening.

When I first got Shelby, we didn't have a fence and he loves being outside. All I could do was get him a dog-run. This is the EXACT reason we have the house we have now. I rented a house (would buy it if I could - I love it) with the NUMBER ONE caviat that it had a fenced yard for my baby. I got Mandie after we moved into this house.

So, she has dogs and got a house without a fence - that's on her.

As for being at a social event of any kind - if you can't control your dog, you should not even WANT to go. Shelby isn't aggressive but he is excitable and jumps up on people and will bark at other dogs and want to play chase. Even when he's on leash, it's all I can do to hold his 70 lb body to me. I would love for him to do agility training and competitions. I think he'd rock at it. But I will never do it because *I* am obviously not good enough at training him to be calm. Again - that's on me so he stays home.