Do you take your dog to dog parks?

[LeahMM]

I did until three of my four came down with kennel cough over the weekend. I'm certain that they got it at the dog park a couple of weeks ago. They are very sick and the dog park just isn't worth it any more. Off to the vet to get them some medicine.

[wolfsoul]

I take Visa to the dog beach near my house. We go once or twice a week. Visa tends to get anxious when there are many offleash dogs around her at once. This beach doesn't usually have very many dogs, and it also has the lake and she is obsessed with the lake. Lots of fun. Right now I am working on training her to control her drive. She goes into drive when she is onleash and sees another dog running offleash. So we go to the dog beach and sit with her onleash, and whenever she goes into drive I give her a correction. Dog parks are awesome places to train dogs with all of the distractions. Lately there has been an epidemic of lice around here because of dogs going to dog parks, so that's something we have to watch out for.

[tikeyas_mom]

sometimes i will, but not often... I just take them to the dog beach, where they can frollick on lead, somtimes I let Tikeya off.. most dogs are on lead there since it is'nt fenced in.. but i don't generally like the idea of going to large fenced off dog parks, because people like to bring dogs there that have fleas and lice, its kinda annoying.