Dog fencing at campsite

toedtoes wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
And you are obviously a thoughtful pet owner. However, my Crystal Ball does not have an option to sort the good owners from the bad owners, so we have to have policies that work for us. As I previously stated, we are very flexible when it comes to pets that are outside with their owners on their sites. We don't enforce the leash rules unless it becomes necessary. We don't pretend to be the park for everyone. We have an image that we are comfortable with and our guests have come to expect. Keeping the sites neat and clutter free is part of that image. Fencing does not fit into what we want our park to be and hence it is not allowed. We don't spring it as a surprise. It's on our website, repeated on our confirmations and printed on our check in materials. We understand that it doesn't work for some people and we do everything we can to prevent a problem situation from arising.

This annoys me. If you have a rule - enforce it. If you are going to let people ignore the rule then don't bother having the rule. It is very irritating to be the one following the rules only to see every other person ignoring them. I'd rather stay at a place with strict enforcement of the rules, than stay at a place where the rules are enforced willy nilly.

It sure would be nice if we lived in a black and white world, but we don't. Most things are shades of gray. Someone sitting outside their RV, with their golden retriever sleeping at their feet is just not someone I am going to hassle over a leash. The nature of the RV Park business is you have to make dozens of judgment calls on a daily basis. Zero tolerance is something preached from a high horse, it doesn't work in the real world.