Scary!!

NOT SAFE. This park is beautiful and pups love it. HOWEVER! Many irresponsible dog owners with dogs off the leash. So many! It's ridiculous because there's an actual fenced dog park within Goodale Park. This is a huge issue and very scary for owners like myself that have a pitbull mix and worry that my leashed dog is going to bite some random, unwelcomed, swiftly approaching dog. Can lead to my own dog being put down because of it! Today, I was only there for about 30min and had some friends hang with my dog and I next to some trees by the tennis court. Within that 30 mins FOUR unleashed dogs running up to mine. One was a weiner dog that I quickly picked up (owners apologized and it was an accident their other dog leashed). The second a huge German shepherd. His owner casually strolling 30 feet behind. Came straight to my dog. I had to grab his leash and pull his dog away!!!! HE DIDN'T EVEN RUN TO HELP! I was struggling and clearly uncomfortable with the situation. The guy just slowly walks up. Takes the leash. Throws a piece of trash away at a neighboring bin... And then immediately drops his leash on the ground to walk again where I saw a second occurance of the same thing with another person. Also saw him leaving with same behavior! Even on my way out there was 3 unleashed with one group of people. A fellow pitbull owner even flipped me off as I'm yelling at the fourth person to come get their dog away from mine and leash it.

It was so ridiculous and so hectic-I am exhausted over the strain and stress.

Mar. 06, 2022