How would you handle4 a bad mannered dog at the park? Some (usually goldens
) are bad with other dogs and most people will do somethig about their dogs if something comes up but how do you handle the ones that don't? Sun morning i took my son with me to the dog park because he likes to run around throwing balls for our dog. While there he got grabbed by a great dane. He wasn't roughed up and clearly the young dog/puppy was just trying to play but what I don't get was the owners attitude. She said "he's ok" in reference to my son after her dog grabbing him and then proceeded to tell me that she didn't stop her fdog because she thought it was going to bite HER son instead of mine! First of all, shouldn't you keep a closer eye on your dog when you know it bites kids? There are usually kids in the park with their dogs and on this day there were several. Second, why if you know your dog has this issue, don't you train it instead of blaming your son for knowing better than to run around her (the dog). I honestly didn't know what to say to this woman. She never even raised her voice to tell the dog to stop! Nor did she hurry over to make sure her dog didn't do serioius harm to my son. What's worse, there most of the kids there were toddlers or just over so what if your dog had been "just playing" with one of them? My son had two teeth marks and a scratch on his arm but it could have been worse! I just don't know what to do with people like that!
Sorry, needed to vent a bit. Any suggestions about how to handle her next time? She's a regular so unfortunately she and her ill-mannered dogs will be back.
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I never knew there were so many people that couldn't tell the difference between a Dobie and a GD. 
