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  • I guess the one thing about the rules that bothers me is why does your male need to be neutered but your female does not need to be spayed? Is a female in heat so obvious? Could there be a possibility that you could be in heat and you would not know? I guess I don't see why the rule singles out the boys and not the girls.

  • Speaking as a rescue person, unless a dog is a show Ch and has wonderful test results, I think they ALL should be fixed.

  • I am blessed with good dog parks in abundance here in Portland. I have a choice of 12 parks with off leash fully fenced areas within about 15 miles of the house. I really have had only a couple issues at the parks here, and most of those were before I had Zaire (Charlie was one tough little pup to train). :) I also learned with Charlie which parks are the best, and have found 4 that have both all dog and small dog areas. I have to do this for Charlie as he gets a little worked up with big dogs sometimes and needs a small dog cool down.

    Generally I find the folks that go to the parks here to be very responsible with their dogs. And with a wide choice of parks I can pick the ones that tend to have the more responsible owners.

  • @sharronhurlbut:

    Speaking as a rescue person, unless a dog is a show Ch and has wonderful test results, I think they ALL should be fixed.

    Speaking as the owner of a beautiful Dual Champion sired by a completely untitled but health tested dog of old healthy lines, I would have missed out if every dog had to have a CH to be bred. Speaking as the owner of a lovely half African sired by a dog with nothing more than a JC and well health tested from health tested lines out of that beautiful Dual Champion, I would have been doubly robbed if only CHs were ever bred.

    I do think that exhibiting is a part of responsible breeding but there are a lot of really deserving dogs who don't finish the CH title and plenty who have it that I wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole.

  • @lvoss:

    Speaking as the owner of a beautiful Dual Champion sired by a completely untitled but health tested dog of old healthy lines, I would have missed out if every dog had to have a CH to be bred. Speaking as the owner of a lovely half African sired by a dog with nothing more than a JC and well health tested from health tested lines out of that beautiful Dual Champion, I would have been doubly robbed if only CHs were ever bred.

    I do think that exhibiting is a part of responsible breeding but there are a lot of really deserving dogs who don't finish the CH title and plenty who have it that I wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole.

    Well, said +1! Showing is wonderful, but it can be extremely expensive to finish a dog if you do not live close to highly populated areas. I think function is every bit as important as form, so there more to it than perfect show scores!!

  • I only have one dog park within reasonable distance (8 miles) and I've only gone there a few times but I must say the people i've met have all been very nice and the dogs well-behaved. One dog did get upset with EL D when we showed up but the owners quickly picked him up AND APOLOGIZED and took him home .
    Anyway - here's another rule that I've seen … do not bring your dog's favorite treats or toys as this could start fights.

  • @wizard:

    I only have one dog park within reasonable distance (8 miles) and I've only gone there a few times but I must say the people i've met have all been very nice and the dogs well-behaved. One dog did get upset with EL D when we showed up but the owners quickly picked him up AND APOLOGIZED and took him home .
    Anyway - here's another rule that I've seen … do not bring your dog's favorite treats or toys as this could start fights.

    Oh yes.. One of the things that I like about the parks here. They all have toys that belong to the park, so you don't have to bring toys that dogs feel they own. It makes it much easier. :)

  • @BasenjiByTheBay:

    Good rules and the parks we like the most have similar ones.

    Vanessa, do you have another place that yours can run? We live downtown and I can't imagine what my house would look like if we couldn't take Bongo to dog parks. A tired basenji being a good basenji and all.:rolleyes:

    We've gone to 3 parks near our house and each time we have had different experiences which were not favorable. In the end our B's became sick and our youngest Kiya would develop severe diarrhea and I would come home to a nasty surprise. It was a disaster. Once we realized it was the dog parks and we stopped taking them there poop became solid again and I no longer come home to that ever so lovely surprise :eek:

  • I don't go to dog parks…. with the exception once in blue moon to Ft Funston in San Mateo... but the only time that it is really acceptable for there is during the weekdays.... and since I work, can't do that much.....

    But if you can arrange your schedule for weekdays at Ft Funston, it is a great place... not like your run of the mill off lease park...

  • Woo. That's a drive from Pleasanton to San Mateo. =) lucky dogs.

    my familly still lives in San Mateo, we always liked the doggie park there too.

  • Ft. Funston is amazing! Some years back I visited a friend in San Francisco and we took her Husky there several times…doggie heaven! Worth a long drive to go there once in a while!

    Anne in Tampa, with a few good dogparks, but nothing is like Ft. Funston!

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