Bad Campground Neighboor
I went boating last weekend with my cousin . She and her friend were camping at Robert Treman SP. We had a good day out on Saturday. She told me, she camped until Monday,park got kinda empty . Then A...
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am1958 wrote:
I find it interesting that no post here since my last post has addressed what I said but many seem to think that "authority" will not help and that "some Pit Bulls" are ok.
As an ex owner of two, controlled, German Shepherds and the current father of a seven year old daughter I don't see why everyone is so reticent to meet "strength" with strength.
Any dog allowed to run freely in a campground is, by definition, uncontrolled. Any uncontrolled dog in the vicinity of my daughter is, until I'm absolutely sure it's harmless, is a threat to her.
Just so people know, I'm not some 25 year old hothead. I'm 56 and my wife and I adopted our daughter three and a half years ago. She had a pretty hard life pre-adoption, I'm sure as heck not going to make that life any worse by exposing her to silly dangers like people who won't, (because "can't" shouldn't be an issue), control a potentially dangerous animal*. I don't blame the animal at all but, in the same breath, I'm not prepared to give it any quarter. To have an owner attempt to treat me like the OP related is rubbish and, as I stated, most do it because people present them with weakness all the time. A harsh word here and a bad look there and they get what they want as happened in this case.
You always have a fallback position. Put the wife out of site with the phone, send her to another site, have her go to get the Ranger but, please, stand up first.
If you don't then you condemn everyone else who camps near the idiot to the same behavior.
* In her future is back country camping with the dangers that brings, SCUBA, maybe a little free fall, and various other pastimes that some may consider risky... But we control the risk not some dog...
Well, since you're asking for comments, I'll respond. I don't think that threatening to kill and eat someone's dog, "laying out" your weapons, etc. is going to do anything but escalate the problem. I disagree that meeting aggression with aggression is a smart thing to do.
As you will most likely find as your daughter grows up, protecting her will often require you to step out of a situation rather than run full-force into it.
