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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Native people with their dogs is quite a bit different from all visitors to National Parks bringing their dogs.
For one thing, native peoples' dogs were there to help the natives survive. Not many travelers/visitors to the NP's that have dogs, have them to help in survival. They are there strictly as companions.
For another, there were/are not a lot of native peoples. However, if all hundreds of thousands of visitors to our national parks, each brought a dog, the np's would be overrun by dogs. No one goes to a national park to see and extra large dog park.
And this comes from a person who loves dogs, and had one that accompanied me on an epic cross country of 7900+ miles, visiting many NP's along the way. But we always left him in the trailer when out and about except when the NP rules allowed him to accompany us.
For one thing, native peoples' dogs were there to help the natives survive. Not many travelers/visitors to the NP's that have dogs, have them to help in survival. They are there strictly as companions.
For another, there were/are not a lot of native peoples. However, if all hundreds of thousands of visitors to our national parks, each brought a dog, the np's would be overrun by dogs. No one goes to a national park to see and extra large dog park.
And this comes from a person who loves dogs, and had one that accompanied me on an epic cross country of 7900+ miles, visiting many NP's along the way. But we always left him in the trailer when out and about except when the NP rules allowed him to accompany us.
ppine wrote:
Mostly I stay out of the National Parks because of all the rules, large numbers of people and the civilian dog police.
Native people in the bush nearly always have dogs. They have been doing that for 10,000 years.
I have worked with every government agency you can think of in the West. The National Park Service has their own set of protectionist rules not shared by anyone else.
