Yellowstone and a dog?
Planning to go visit Yellowstone NP in earlier part of July. Almost made it 2 seasons ago but bailed out at the last minute due to a nearby wildfire. Didn't have our dog with us back then but will...
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ppine wrote:
The National Park Service has a serious problems with dogs. For years it was okay to take dogs on trails. Now it isn't. They want you to believe that dogs will bring bears back to you. My dogs have chased bears away from me many times in camp. It is totally safe to run a dog in open country during the middle of the day even in Yellowstone.
I like to take my dogs camping and there are places I won't stay because of the dog rules. But that is your choice: follow the rules, work to get the rules changed, or go elsewhere.
I have found that people who ignore the dog rules are the same dog owners who do things to get those dog rules enacted in the first place. "Keep your dog on leash" rule gets ignored by folks who claim it is perfectly safe to let your dog run off leash and then the rule changes to "no dogs off pavement". Those same folks ignore that rule and it gets changed to "no dogs allowed". If they had just followed the dang "keep your dog on leash" rule, our dogs would be allowed in a lot more places.
To the OP: follow the rules; find a nice boarding kennel or work out a system that keeps your dog safe and under park rules while allowing you to see the sites; or go somewhere your dog will be welcome.
