is it really so bad to take a well-behaved dog on a lead into the playground?

[hatwoman]

I guess it's easier to ban all dogs rather than just banning idiots with badly behaved pit bulls. but it does seem a bit harsh. I appreciate that not everyone likes dogs and that some people are scared of them regardless of their nature or breed, but if it's on a lead I'm not sure I see what the problem is...

I'm with Hula. No dogs, with the exception of guide dogs. The playground is for children. Some of them might be scared of dogs, some owners might be irresponsible and bring aggressive dogs in, or allow their dogs to shit or pee in the playground.

and even nice dogs can snap if they are surrounded by kids doing unpredictable things.

and kids do just that in a play park, and if they can't be loud and shouty and silly in a park where on erath can they FFS????

I agree with everyone that dogs should not be in palygrounds, but the school cannot stop parents from leaving them outside the school grounds and on this basis I wonder if an entire baying pack at the gates is not potentially more terrifying for a child. Best solution of course is to leave them at home but you cannot make people do that.

Dog poo you can pick up providing its solid but pee you cant and you cant stop a dog from peeing where it wants.

I know for a fact that my dog would pee everywhere in a playground because its new territory.

Bleurghh for kids to have to play around that.