Sept 5, 2010 - Labor Day weekend Findlay OHIO

[lizbud]

Yeah, Monica. I sure wish I woulda left before all that went down! :-P

Of course, that dog might have got ahold of a smaller dog then. At least Kody was one of the bigger ones and the attacker didn't do too much damage. Can you imagine it if would have been a little dog the mean one got ahold of? :-(

I am so sorry that happened to your pup. We have been there a few times and never dreamed someone would come there with a dog that aggressive. Where the park people told about the incident?

[GoldenLover]

Yes, all the dog bites that happen at the park are required to be reported. So once I left, I called to report that it had happened. The park ranger needed all sorts of info about the other party, who had of course ran out of there the moment he saw blood. I didn't get a license plate or anything, which they wanted. I was like "Sorry, I was busy sopping up my dog's bloody mouth with a towel to think about that". lol. What's he think I'm gonna do- leave my dog to bleed while I race after the fleeing suspect? Geesh!
I go to the dog park just about every day- sometimes every other. So I hope the guy comes back eventually. I saw a black lab mix yesterday there named Buddy, but he had white on him and I don't think the dog that got Kody had any white on him. You better believe that this time, when I see him, I will get the info they wanted (providing of course, his dog isn't attacking another dog at the time). :-(

On another note, I was there yesterday and the owner of a Siberian Huskey pup came up and we were chatting. He said that earlier, there had been another dog there attacking every dog he came across and his owner just kept letting him do it. I asked if he were a black lab named Buddy and he said no. Then I named off another white Sib Huskey mix that comes around alot who also does that and he said no, it was a different type of dog. So my question to those people is this: If you have a nasty dog that doesn't like other dogs, WHY do you insist on bringing them to the dog park to use everyone else's dogs as chew toys??? Makes me so mad! If your dog isn't friendly with other dogs, take them on a walk alone. Go somewhere where interaction with other dogs isn't likely. Don't bring them into a leash-less dog park and leave them basically unattended with the 20+ other dogs that are there. Yet the same people, with the same unsocialized nasty dogs come out day after day. Makes me wanna find another dog park- but I'm sure they all have that problem to some extent. Ok, rant over. ;-)

[MonicanHonda]

I've been to quite a few and haven't really had this problem. Findlay has been getting progressively worse and I am sick of it. Don't worry, we will find a new one. I'm sick of Shadow, the one who head butts and chest bumps Delta to the ground and then grabs her neck and holds her on the ground. That dog needs to learn some new play skills. I'm usually decently lenient but that makes me extremely angry.

[shais_mom]

I called and left a message at the ranger station and &itched about the park not being all the way open and the fact we don't have to pay for it anymore that anyone can bring aggressive dogs out there without their shots. Paying the $10 a year kept the unresponsible pet owners out.

[RobiLee]

I called and left a message at the ranger station and &itched about the park not being all the way open and the fact we don't have to pay for it anymore that anyone can bring aggressive dogs out there without their shots. Paying the $10 a year kept the unresponsible pet owners out.

You're right. It would keep this unresponsible pet owner away.

[shais_mom]

oh Robin that isn't what I meant and you know it!
I am not timely on Keegan's shots b/c I don't want to overdose her. But did you happen to see the 2 dogs out there that had no hair? I was worried about Mange or a contagious skin condition.

[GoldenLover]

I called and left a message at the ranger station and &itched about the park not being all the way open and the fact we don't have to pay for it anymore that anyone can bring aggressive dogs out there without their shots. Paying the $10 a year kept the unresponsible pet owners out.

That was what I was thinking too. I know BG has a fee, and I would certainly pay it to help weed out some of the losers that come to Findlays with their nasty animals.

[MonicanHonda]

Yes, that is my only thing... I do not keep with a yearly vaccine schedule for the same reason... but I could always buy the vaccine with record and not use it :-P Oh, I'm so naughty hahahaha

[shais_mom]

And Robin you know your dogs well enough to leave them at home if you think there might be a personality conflict b/n them and another dog. Not everyone does that. I remember being there several years ago and seeing a lady in there with 4 other dogs and when she saw me coming she grabbed her dogs and asked me to stand up by the track b/c one of her dog's was extremely dog aggressive and reactive. She muzzled him before she left and she very chipper when she left and said "THANKS SO MUCH FOR STANDNING OVER THERE AND HAVE A GREAT DAY!" I know all dogs need exercise but THANK GOD that lady knew her dog well enough to warn me and not let me go in and have my dog attacked.

Monica I know I told you that our park here in Upper isn't that big and there isn't a lot of other dogs but that's ok b/c I LIKE it that way. Keegan doesn't get overly juiced about the dog park anymore. She's content to hang at home or my parents or a friends house. And let me tell you that place is a Godsend when I watch Annie (the white dog I had that day) b/c she is used to a fenced in yard and I don't have one. And its UBER-CLOSE to me - so handy to run her down there 2-3 times a day. Now if I ever need a dog park to socialize a dog to several dogs it isn't ideal but to just have a place for them to stretch their legs is fabulous!
I don't keep Keeg on a vaccine schedule at her age - pros vs cons really - I would like to have her titered to see if they are needed at all but when I asked my vets office about them when the vet tech asked another if we do "taters" here, I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere fast!