So I'm at the Grist Mill dog park, and these five yong punks come in with like 7 dogs. Two of these dogs are bitches in heat . . .yes, you read that correctly. In fact, I was little unclear on it, might have been the lab was in heat too. Notably, there is no rule against intact dogs in the park . . . but there is a rule against females in heat. Not to mention common sense.
I say to this charming group . . . do you know you aren't allowed to have them in here? So what, they say. It isn't very wise, could start a fight, really its not a good idea. Whatever, they say. I don't see any intact males right now, but they are allowed in here, I say. One of them: If she gets pregant, she gets preganant.
:yikes:
Now I''m trying to decide whether to escalate this conversation, but I'm pretty outnumbered and they are pretty scary. I think about calling animal control, but the county is taking their own sweet time with Sarama's new tag and Docket is waiting on his, I'll have to go to court if I get ticketed to prove that I register my dogs. Yeah, talk about good deeds getting punished .. . and I know that if AC shows up they ticket everyone. Moreover, did I mention there are five of these people? With seven dogs? Mike is coming over begining to look menancing, ok, we tell them to leave, call AC, and take off with Docket and Sarama . . . got a plan.
Then this little old lady comes over, annouces she is a dog park monitor, and informs them that they will leave immediatley or she will call AC. After some argument, they left, saying they'd just stand outside the fence and yell at us (they didn't). I thanked the woman and asked where I could sign up to be a monitor . . . a badge is a great help in confrontation.
I'm still amazed though . . .what kind of morons bring 2 (maybe 3) bitches in heat to an off-leash dog park?!?
I say to this charming group . . . do you know you aren't allowed to have them in here? So what, they say. It isn't very wise, could start a fight, really its not a good idea. Whatever, they say. I don't see any intact males right now, but they are allowed in here, I say. One of them: If she gets pregant, she gets preganant.
:yikes:
Now I''m trying to decide whether to escalate this conversation, but I'm pretty outnumbered and they are pretty scary. I think about calling animal control, but the county is taking their own sweet time with Sarama's new tag and Docket is waiting on his, I'll have to go to court if I get ticketed to prove that I register my dogs. Yeah, talk about good deeds getting punished .. . and I know that if AC shows up they ticket everyone. Moreover, did I mention there are five of these people? With seven dogs? Mike is coming over begining to look menancing, ok, we tell them to leave, call AC, and take off with Docket and Sarama . . . got a plan.
Then this little old lady comes over, annouces she is a dog park monitor, and informs them that they will leave immediatley or she will call AC. After some argument, they left, saying they'd just stand outside the fence and yell at us (they didn't). I thanked the woman and asked where I could sign up to be a monitor . . . a badge is a great help in confrontation.
I'm still amazed though . . .what kind of morons bring 2 (maybe 3) bitches in heat to an off-leash dog park?!?
