Just got back from a country park with my toddler - the children’s play area wasn’t fenced off but it was full of little children playing.
A group of mums came along with 2 huge dogs off the lead - one was a Doberman and the other I’m not sure of the breed but it was also really big.
The mums just let their dogs run in amongst all the play apparatus and get in all the children’s spaces - the Doberman ran up to a dad with his tiny toddler and licked him on the face and the owner didn’t even apologize or take any action whatsoever.
Aibu to think it’s completely unacceptable to allow your dog to roam around a play area ?? The park emptied out extremely quickly needless to say.
As a side note, does anyone have any advice on how to handle this if it happens again? All the mums in the park were quite shocked and didn’t say anything apart from one mum shouting at the dog to shoo it away. Particularly if a dog licks you as surely dog owners shouldn’t be allowed get away with that ?