I had an experience almost as bad as that. our new dog park is really nice, but i really feel bad for the people with pits or rotties or dobers. (or akitas, or chows, the list goes on). any way, one day there was this sweet little pit bull, and she was playing really nice with all the dogs, and tollerated the rude dogs well. her owner was great too, if the dog got to rough she would correct her. if she wandered too far, the dog was called back. other ppl at the park noticed she was "very well behaved for a pit bull", but said if she got near their dog, they would be "very unhappy". i was really mad for the owner when a doberman owner said he didn't trust pits. a DOBERMAN owner!!!! shouldn't they understand most of all what it is like having a misunderstood breed like that? and that same day, a couple cops walked by and they came in to play with the dogs on their lunch break. they were talking to me when Shasta (the pit) ran up and stared playing w/ my westie and my "others". the owner followed soon after, and was automatecally questioned under the phrase "there was a brown dog that attacked someone last night-was it yours?" i was so mad i wanted to just kill that officer!!! i tried to stand up for the guy, but the cops said "please miss, we are handling this" handling what? we were all doing fine until they came up, and they had no right to accuse any one. it was so upsetting, and i am sad to say that Shasta has never been seen at the dog park since then. we all miss her-we even talked about how she was a good influence on OUR dogs!
This is not nearly as bad as someone getting bit, but dog parks are home to many wrong doings of the dog world
i wish they served as a good place for dog people to meet and talk, while their dogs play. that was the reason for building a dog park-right?
I hope this kinda makes sense, it is late (4 me!)and i have to get up at 4 tomarrow, so i will see y'all later!
Leah