My dog is not a threat.
Here we are, I got this reservation 2 months ago. I spoke on the phone with a lady, I called precisely to ask what are the restrictions on the dogs. She hymmed and hawed around after I told her I have...
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toedtoes wrote:Happytraveler wrote:
I can see breed restrictions in RV Parks because of LAWSUITS. Our home Insurance has restrictions. Everyone sues now!!
About a month ago on the street behind us a couple was walking their shih tzu and their neighbor's pit bull supposedly trained not to leave the yard attacked their dog. The shih tzu was in intensive care for about 2 weeks. Six months ago my friend's sweet little Yorkie was attacked by 2 boxers. That was surgery on the neck with a 3 month recovery. What happened her dog slipped out of the collar and ran up to the two dogs and they attacked. She didn't hold anything against the boxers. An acquaintance of ours had his minpin in a dog park inside his complex and a pit-bull climbed the fence and attacked his dog. It was pretty serious, but the dog recovered. My parent's neighbor lost his Yorkie to a pitbull. What happened his dog slipped out of the gate and went into another yard.
So, the first example, the pit bull escaped from its confinement and a fight between it and a yorkie occurred. The second example, the yorkie escaped from its confinement and a fight between it and two dogs occurred. The third example, the yorkie escaped from its confinement and a fight between it and a pit bull occurred.
The pit bull #1 is at fault. The 2 boxers got a reprieve. The pit bull #2 is at fault.
Yet, the yorkie #3 did exactly what the pit bull #1 did - escaped its yard. In addition, the yorkie #3 went into pit bull #2's territory, not just out into the street.
Sounds like there is a bias going on that excuses small dogs for doing exactly what big dogs get blamed for.
Certainly no excuse for any dog to be out of control. But if a dog gets torn to shreds just because it goes near a larger dog, then there is a problem and the dog shouldn't be at a camp site. There's a high concentration of small kids at camp sites. What is keeping the dog from attacking a kid if the kid gets in the dogs territory? Our dog died last year, but we never took her camping. It isn't fair to the dog nor our camping neighbors. That being said, I have no problems with people bringing their dogs camping as long as they don't bark or act in a threatening manner.
