dogs in national park campgrounds
Dear All, I have not been active in the forums for some years, but a recent experience brings me back to the pet forum. We just finished a 2 week trip through some Arizona, Colorado and Utah nation...
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The rules in NP are often just ignored until someone complains.
We were Boon docking in national forest and this white van, which looked like a work van comes in pulling a Casita. Dang I think a construction worker who will be up and leaving at 5am and waking us up. Nope older woman pulls in and opens her door, 2 dogs come bounding out yapping. Runs all over our camp yapping. She thinks it's cute and they're making friends. This yapping inside and out as well as running off leash went on all day and in spite of the leash law in the park.
Early next am I'm out in my camo with my trusty Nikon and just about to get a real nice photo of an Elk and here comes the woman with her yapping dogs off leash. Off goes the elk. She was a real menace with those dogs. Had to complain to the Ranger, who said he got lots of complaints. Yet he didn't inform her of the rules and said she was leaving soon. We had to put up with her nonsense all morning and she still thought it was cute. The funny part was that she was all ticked off at another camper who she thought was making too much noise.
Moab Utah, 2am dog next door has been barking for 4 hours and I had enough. Turns out it was in a crate in their jeep outside. I knock on there door. No asking what the problem was, the woman states, "oh is he still barking?"
We love dogs and often walk out friends dogs while camping, but irresponsible dog owners out number responsible owners. We run into MANY situations with annoying dogs and if you say anything to the owners you'll be attacked, after all that is their baby and it does not wrong.
We were Boon docking in national forest and this white van, which looked like a work van comes in pulling a Casita. Dang I think a construction worker who will be up and leaving at 5am and waking us up. Nope older woman pulls in and opens her door, 2 dogs come bounding out yapping. Runs all over our camp yapping. She thinks it's cute and they're making friends. This yapping inside and out as well as running off leash went on all day and in spite of the leash law in the park.
Early next am I'm out in my camo with my trusty Nikon and just about to get a real nice photo of an Elk and here comes the woman with her yapping dogs off leash. Off goes the elk. She was a real menace with those dogs. Had to complain to the Ranger, who said he got lots of complaints. Yet he didn't inform her of the rules and said she was leaving soon. We had to put up with her nonsense all morning and she still thought it was cute. The funny part was that she was all ticked off at another camper who she thought was making too much noise.
Moab Utah, 2am dog next door has been barking for 4 hours and I had enough. Turns out it was in a crate in their jeep outside. I knock on there door. No asking what the problem was, the woman states, "oh is he still barking?"
We love dogs and often walk out friends dogs while camping, but irresponsible dog owners out number responsible owners. We run into MANY situations with annoying dogs and if you say anything to the owners you'll be attacked, after all that is their baby and it does not wrong.
