To think dogs should be on a lead at a sledging hill?

[PippiL]

Prepared that I might be BU.

The field is probably privately owned. It is The Sledging
Hill in the village. Loads of kids there today.

About 3 dogs, big bouncy ones, off leads chasing sledges, pissing in the snow where kids sledging, and crapping too (generally out of the way, but didn't see it picked up).

My dd is petrified of dogs, and stood about 5 minutes complaining loudly how they should be on a lead. Which was ignored by the owners.

We had to leave.

Aibu?

Perhaps he was camera shy or was worried that all his mates were going to see him on Facebook?!

I was launched at by a big salivating dog who tried to strangle me, first by tugging on my camera case, then by pulling my scarf. I was only trying to take a photo of this dog.

Arrr, tis the Hound of the Baskervilles ye saw. Ye are Doomed, I say....

This thread has reminded me of an incident my parents had a couple of years ago when we had a lot of snow. They are lucky enough to own a feild attached to their garden that in the summer is grazed by ponies but is left empty in the winter. When it's empty they use it as an extension of their garden and their two dogs have the run of it.
On one of the first days of the snow they let their dogs out as they usually do and followed on after a few minutes by the time they had got to the feild a man came rushing up screaming and shouting about these dangerous dogs beings off the lead and terrorising his kids. My Df apologised but did then point out it was his feild and the family had no right to be there, this man carried on ranting saying it was the best slope in the village and how dare my Df stop his dc's having fun.
At no point did either dog go anywhere near either child but my parents took them back to the house anyway. This family continued to turn up and use the feild on a daily basis until the snow had cleared despite signs saying private property and asking people not to trepass. They even had the local police round to warn them about keeping their dogs on leads in their own feild!
If these people had asked my parents would have happily agreed to them using their feild but the problems it's caused since in the village have left my parents feeling very upset and distressed.

What a hideous sense of entitlement.
Mind you, I am thinking of starting up a petition in our village to get the farmers who own the 'sledging field' to construct a ski lift - so tiring walking back uphill!