Are people actually insane?

If it's an XL and isn't muzzled call the police

In my experience (dog owner so walking every day) I almost never come across these big bully breeds on river, meadow or woodland walks. Only ever see them in town.
To be clear the walks I am referring to surround my town and are accessible at many points. One of the reasons my little dog gave me for wanting to move here!

YANBU. Not the place to take your dog, some kids are proper terrified of dogs for various reasons. Irresponsible dog owners.

Over Easter I was in a local park to my mum’s house (a housing estate). We were all in the playground surrounded by a fence. A lady walked up with a young XL. She didn’t enter the park. The dog was not on a lead. She was on her phone and the dog was wondering almost pacing outside the fenced area. I called my husband who had gone back to my mum’s to use the toilet and said loudly there is an XL bully off lead here, don’t want down. The lady obviously heard me and walked over to the dog put it on its lead and she walked off. We waiting behind the fence , my husband did come down and then called us out once he could see the dog was gone.

we were all petrified. My brother in law how is a GP (he was back at the house and we had taken his kids out) said he hates parks as he has had so many kids in with complications from dog bites.

My DC's sports day is held on a public park. Lots of city schools don't have their own playing fields. There are increasing numbers of badly behaved big dogs though. V annoying and OP not being unreasonable

@VolvoFan Really?? a Husky attacked one of my Pugs ripped his eye out

Is the school field for sports day actually owned by the school or a field they use?

My daughters primary schools sports day is in the local rec which the school don’t own and is where everyone walks their dogs so no way to avoid dogs on sports day.

Does the hall where the ballet class is allow dogs ? If so then they can bring the dog, if not then it shouldn’t be in there.

Both my sons and daughters school have a school dog though that’s in reception (both are labs).

They shouldn’t be in a gated park if it says no dogs but I highly doubt the dogs are ‘fighting’ each other and the owners are doing nothing. They are probably playing together.

This is part of the problem though, many entitled dog owners will just say their animal is a support dog and people are too afraid of being discriminatory that they will not challenge that.

Dogs do not belong at school sports day or ballet class (apart from assistance dogs obviously).

Why is the person in charge not asking them to leave?

I love dogs and I have my own.
I also love XL bullies.

But dogs do not need to attend these sorts of events.

There is nothing in it for these dogs and they would rather have an actual walk and socialise than sit and watch a bunch of kids.

I’m shocked that no leader of these groups told them that no dogs were allowed.

I assume they weren’t XL bullies but that’s irrelevant, even a poodle should be banned from these sorts of events.

YOU are but my 9 yr old would still be on my lap / outside / hysterical if a small dog came at him. You're point was "not all kids like dogs" so that applies to all.

I don't want an XL bully there, a lab, a cockapoo. Nothing. And school would absolutely have been on this immediately

This

A mixture of aggressive entitlement with people being scared (quite understandably) to challenge.

No doubt someone will claim its their 'support dog' and put some stupid halter on it with 'support dog' written on it, so thta they can drag it round the shops all day without challenge

Ugh I would've left. I don't trust those dogs.

Some people are just moronic cunts and no one’s telling THEM what to do.

They are just twats. They want to be challenged and called out so they can repeat the same old 'owners not breeds' twaddle over and over again.
Someone on my local Facebook page asked if it was acceptable to take an XL bully on a bus recently. Obviously the comments were full of 'of course it is hun they can't stop you' and anyone who dared to offer a different perspective was insulted, ridiculed and called ignorant. Let's be honest, it's a certain type of person who generally owns these dogs and they are usually confrontational, selfish chavs.

Excellent post, sums it up perfectly.

Is this in the UK?

Are people actually insane?.........to believe this made up nonsense

apparently

Thinking back to when DD did ballet in a scout hall, the classes went on in the main room and parents waited outside if it was dry, in a sort of hallway when it was wet. The teacher could not see who was waiting until the class ended and she opened the doors. In that sort of situation it would be down to another parent with no "authority" to tackle the parent who felt it was appropriate to bring a dog and not everyone wants to put themselves in that position.

I think we can all agree that dog owners have got 100 times more entitled over the last 5 years.

There are lots of stupid, entitled, anti social people around unfortunately.
I have no problem pointing out their shitty behaviour and often get a mouthful of abuse back but 9/10 times they leave or stop doing whatever it is.

People need to collectively address individuals like this but no one wants to take that risk, which I understand but also find frustrating, that's how they get away with their nonsense.

I'm horrified.
If it's safe can you get a photo?
I'd call the police.