Dogs and parks

[Grassgreendashhabi]

Ok I know dogs need to be walked, but why are the children's areas so small. And the rest of the parks the grassy areas huge.

Why is it not possible for an outside track say 4 meters wide if not larger be fenced off for dogs leaving a centre area for children.

That way children can play football etc and dogs have a huge wide area going around the park.

Our local park is really big but it's covered in dog mess. Or dog wee. The children's area had swings etc and is dog free but there is nowhere to run around

The park must be 3 or 4 acres it could easily have an enormous outer circle easily 20ft wide circling.

It just seems that the dogs take priority over people.

YABU and weird

One local park is divided in half with a path down the middle. One half is the dog exercise area and the other is a large field with play equipment at one end. This arrangement seems to work well with the only dogs in the wrong bit belonging to a small number of people with children on the play equipment who think the dog rules don't apply to them.

I've been trying to restrain myself from commenting but Where has the rat poison gone?? It's ok I'll find some next time I go and get some dog food is a fucking disgusting thing to say, even if you think it's a joke. This is how my boyfriends previous dog was killed and he is still devestated by it. Please have a think before you say something so cold and cruel as some people are very sensitive to things like jokes about killing dogs. By the way I have reported that comment,you need help OP.

There's also shit left by the human species in the parks.

What can we do about that?

Where has the rat poison gone?? It's ok I'll find some next time I go and get some dog food

What planet are you living on where you think that's an acceptable thing to say, you lowlife?

OOooh but the dog people mustnt be made to share with the joggers or the cyclists and they cant share with each other either as they move at different speeds..

We'd need a one way system around every park, and at least three separate fenced tracks for the dogs, the joggers, the cyclists, and then the fenced bit with the swings in the middle and then that leaves a nice 5 metre wide track fenced in multiple times for those who wish to sit down on the non-peed on grass for 3 days per year that its not raining or has not recently rained and one can sit on the ground without getting a wet arse.

Meanwhile of course, dogs are bored witless walking and sniffing teh same track so thats great for me, my income goes up as I have more bored crazy dogs to deal with because they have no access to a natural environment whatsoever.

Everyone uses parks, they are for everyone - its a concept called sharing and yes, its horrid when someone leaves a dog turd, its horrid whena fox shits on the grass, its horrid when a cat does it, its pretty frigging horrid when someones toddler does it (all things I Have encountered in the last month in public parks).
I am a particular fan of the people who leave their rubbish all over the place and the strange breed of human that derives huge pleasure out of smashing glass and leaving that in the grass.

If we ever end up with the system the US has of 'dog parks' (small shitty areas of ground with nothing to do but wrestle or actually fight), we will see a dramatic rise in dog aggression towards other dogs and towards people as it is inifinitely harder to train and socialise and habituate dogs to the human world when they are segregated and forced into tiny unsuitable spaces (and they will be tiny and unsuitable believe me!).

I really don't get the way some people believe that dogs can be on the lead at all times. Complete madness.

OP, on the other side of the coin, it's picnickers and general foul people who make my life a misery, by leaving leftover food, piles of mouldy bread (why?!) and smouldering barbecues behind. My dog is a total scavenger and won't come back when called when there's literally bags of sausages left on the grass. I've missed appointments because of it. Totally unnecessary but people are just thoughtless.

Does that make you feel better? We all piss each other off.

(Speaking of which, the thing about the dog pee is properly weird. What do you think will happen?!)

"If we ever end up with the system the US has of 'dog parks' (small shitty areas of ground with nothing to do but wrestle or actually fight), we will see a dramatic rise in dog aggression towards other dogs and towards people as it is inifinitely harder to train and socialise and habituate dogs to the human world when they are segregated and forced into tiny unsuitable spaces"

Exactly this. OP, you think you want dogs to be segregated, but the reality is awful, even for people who don't own dogs.