Your opinion on Dog Park rules?

i support the rules ... in my experience it is intact male dogs who cause a commotion at the parks/beaches i have gone to ... of course you are entitled to not neuter your pets, but the consequences of that is keep your dogs out of areas where they are not allowed ... and your dogs have not had any issues YET ... just because it has been warm and fuzzy so far, does not mean it will always be that way ... most people can not predict their dogs behaviour 100% and an intact male, you have no idea when his hormones are going to trump pleasant behaviour ... even you list the problems with unneutered males at the park, but your dog is "different" right ??? and considering you now allow your puppy to pester other dogs, i think you should find another place to take your dogs altogether, where there are no other dogs ... every sentence you type makes your dogs less and less appropriate for a dog park ...

It is entirely your choice to have an intact dog-you are absolutely right there.

However, you can only control what YOU can control, and that does not include every idiot dog owner in the world, so the rules have to be the rules.

This is true everywhere. If everyone was perfect and always did the right thing, there would be no need for rules or laws anywhere.

Seeing we all live in the real world, it is NOT a good idea to bring an intact animal to a dog park.

We avoid dog parks. The ones near us are filled with lazy owners who chat on the benches while their dogs do whatever they want. If you have dogs attacking yours, why go? That's not going to teach a 6month old puppy proper socialization. If you see unspayed/unneutered dogs, contact the parks & recreation department in the city/county/whoever posted the rules. If you want yours to get exercise, go to a park that has empty, fenced-off tennis courts and use those.

And I'm not so sure about it being "clean" - yeah, people pick up the poop, but usually that's it.

Also, I'm not sure I get your logic - you don't want other intact dogs there, but you keep yours intact and should still go?? Intact or not, some dogs are unpredictable. I mean, you know how your dogs react, but will never how know a strangers' dog will. At the worst, see if you can let the puppy play in the small-dog area, if yours has one.

The rules here only prohibit bit ches in season. When I went to the park, I welcomed intact dogs. I've wished on several occasions that certain people would leave with their dogs, intact or not. (Some people just don't get it.)

However I can't count how many times any of the 20 or so rules of the dog park have been broken (especially the no food rule - ARGH!). Not to mention the times people have had an obviously ill dog in the park.

I don't go to the dog park because my dogs are intact and I don't vaccinate the crap out of them.

I understand where you are coming from but rules are rules. It would be better to find a safe place where you can let them off leash - if you don't have a yard, maybe a friend does.

ETA - the rules are there for stupid sue-happy people who can't control their dogs.

We don't have that rule where I am.

Just no bitches in season which I agree with 100%. That would just be stupid to bring an in heat female to a dog park :S

I have only gone to 1 dog park that I like. And it has like trails and stuff so it's not as bad as most parks.

The rule is more for intact and in season bitches more than anything and honestly NO ONE follows dog park rules 100%. IE young children being brought along with no pet I might add and let to rip, run and otherwise pester the dogs. People who put their dogs in the wrong section small in large or vice versa. People who bring their pet's toys. People who bring food. People who don't clean up after their dogs.

We don't have many, if any, dog parks in the UK and even if we did, this would be the last place I'd take any of my dogs to, if only because of the risk of infection from so many dogs in one area. And if this neuter rule were in place here, even more so.

Dog-parks are FILTHY & stupid.& utterly useless breeding-grounds for parasites,disease & FIGHTS.