Alaskayorkie, you ask a really interesting and thought provoking question.
The question is bigger than just the park issue. Although, I completely understand your frustration. My humble advice, would be to use the surrounding beauty of Anchorage as a place to take your dogs. Who are obviously total bad asses.
But your question is really good, there is a group of people who view small dogs as inferior or as you said "not real dogs". Many of them are men, who have either never lived with a small dog or with any dog at all. As a man myself I know that some people think its ridiculous I have little dogs. Its some kind of stupid macho thing. I honestly don't give a %$@# what those people think. I have found that once these type of people get to live with small dogs for a while they change their mind, big time.
Pound for pound a Yorkie is every bit as capable as many other big dogs. Mine have chased Cattle from my property, they catch and kill lizards that are really, really fast, and they are incredibly good watch dogs. Just in a small, portable, package.
If you haven't read the book about "Smoky" the war dog. I highly recommend it.
The good news is there are lots of people like you and me that love little dogs and understand how important they are and will speak up to protect them. |