stratcat wrote:
Let me clarify the original message. Our Service dog is walked 4-5 times daily on a short leash. He doesn't bark unless provoked by other dogs. The individual that started this business lives in a corner lot in a park model, on that corner is a block with the street name that he likes to sniff, occasionally he has lifted his leg on it as I'm sure other dogs have in the past including the coyotes that frequent here in the late evening. The approach of the individual in question was my beef. He laid into my DW one morning as she was walking the dog, his actions came across as if he owned the park also informing her the plants along the perimeter wall and not near any spaces was placed by a resident. We always carry poop bags and pick up after our dog. We try to respect other sites and do not allow our boy to lift his leg on other sites but a street marker and/or rock at the corner of the "street" is not private property. This park seems to have 2 sets of rules. The weight limit of 40 lbs. does not apply to everyone or the 2 dog limit or gong directly to the pet area. In the future we will avoid parks that have permanent residents in park models.
Sorry, but the odds are very great that every road and square inch of property within that RV park is private property. You may not care if a dog pees on the grass or bushes or flowers or other plants on the site you have rented, but others very well might. And the owner and management of the park might very well care also. I don't care about coyotes, birds, elk, deer, bison, raccoons or any other animal that comes into the park, they are different than a domestic dog. You should have control over the dog. If you don't, then you shouldn't be in a public place. If the park doesn't want your dog going anywhere but in the pet areas, that is where they need to go. Your dogs bladder control is your problem, not the parks. If the park makes exceptions to rules, be it weight limits, number of dog limits or whatever, that is their prerogative. You have the right answer, if you don't like the park or it's rules, move on. You need to change parks, because it almost assuredly won't change for you.
