Where can we visit that is definitely dog free?

[loubielou31]

Sorry this is a bit of a thread about a thread. My mum has quite a bad dog phobia, and it is becoming more difficult to think of places to visit with her because more and more places are dog friendly. I don't need to discuss the merits of this just suggestions of places that will definitely be dog free please. Visit to the beach in summer is spoilt for her (and consequently us) because even when there are no dogs allowed on the main beach, owners don't stick to the dog friendly areas.
We live in Bristol if people have specific places they know but general suggestions would also be great.
The zoo is one place we often visit.
Thanks

I don't have a dog phobia, but I most certainly have a dog owner phobia, is there a hypnotherapy course for them?

Sculpture Park in Wakefield, huge area, look it up, excellent food, go early, lovely shop, then Hepworth Gallery and Garden,
also
Salts Mill in Shipley,

I’ve got a dog and I think it’s ridiculous how many places dogs are allowed into now. I also don’t really see that benefits most dogs to have to lie on cafe floors surrounded by all that noise and all those smells.

Both the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Salts Mill allow dogs - Salts Mill seems to be small dogs you can carry, but that’s not the same as no dogs.

O No! since when? since lockdown? havn’t been to YSP for 3 years,
one of the joys was no dogs and Salts Mill, at New Year, saw no dogs.

I apologise for providing false imformation and thanks IJ for putting me right!

We took our dog to YSP well before lockdown, about 2016/17. Staff were clearing up after some catered event amd bestowed a spare steak sandwich on him so it was memorably dog friendly then.

Quite a lot of nature reserves don’t allow dogs (though some do). I just had a quick look, is this any good for you?
https://www.ywt.org.uk/nature-reserves/north-cave-wetlands-nature-reserve

Therapy won't change the fact it's a completely valid phobia. Dogs attack me and my kids almost every time we leave the house. The dogs and their feckless owners are the problem here, not the frightened person.

The person isn't the problem. It's the dogs and their owners who need to change their behaviour.

POLICE (retired) dog (drug detection) kills child in home. If a police-trained dog, trained to the highest degree, can go rogue, isn't it time dog people reevaluated their dog fetish and realised those of us who do recognise the risk are at least not vilified for speaking out on this issue.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14996565/amp/colorado-police-chief-daughter-death-K9-dog.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMZXAVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFuYXBrTUpJa1hIbUhqVmZLAR54535Ip8_sQUo7Wk5Los2xsKPdAAAeIjbxn1azcpdRqbkLfWGto3KNQqM9MQ_aem_irV5FdUzyIucPuC37xG34w

I do not need therapy, YOU do, you who ignore the valid risks and fears. We are a mostly brainwashed nation to ignore this issue.

I nearly tripped over a small dog in the Royal Academy. The light at floor level was dim and I didn't see it.

It didn't seem very interested in the paintings.

See also 'take antihistamines' for those who are allergic to dogs.

1. Why should a person take drugs when it should be possible to avoid the allergen?

2. No amount of antihistamine prevents my DH from ending up on a nebuliser and IV drugs when he gets too close to a dog for too long. (Even a 'hypoallergenic' one. No such thing exists.)