Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 2025717)

No balls allowed.

Originally Posted by Toymeister (Post 2025970)

If anyone's "life was threatened" there would be law enforcement involvement. Lying to make a post, seriously I expect more maturity. I am disappointed.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2025988)

Apparently, there WAS a case of felony assault at the Dog Park off Moyer Loop some years back...

The perpetrator has since moved away...

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2025217)

On September 13, 2021, my pooch got bit in the left paw on the underside after being approached by a pit bull or pit bull mix at Doggie Doo Run in the central field while we were just walking to the 5 acre back field. This was in the evening when there are very few dogs.

The pit bull mix came up to my dog and they started going apart but the pit bull then spun around and all I heard was my dog screeching. It was very fast so I did not know what occurred. I picked him up and the pit bull owner ran over and got his dog away.

I had no idea what actually happened but went into the big field area and shut the gate. My canine friend had stopped making the noise and I put him down to try to figure out what happened. The dog that bit him was going to the gate to the back field rather often and it looked like he was trying to figure out how to get in there.

I did not see any blood at the time. But one of the employees of DDRR, Joe, had asked me what had happened as he had been in the small dog section with his charge. I thought my dog had just sprained his leg or something or twisted a toe but I did see a very small amount of blood in between his toes.

But I still thought maybe it was just a twisted leg.

Took him home and thought he was OK but by next morning he could not walk on the leg.

Called Buffalo Ridge Animal for an appt and they only had one vet working and she was fully booked for emergencies and also regular customers.

I contacted a few other vets and saw that the emergency vet near NYPD pizza opens at 3. This is by Walmart in Oxford, FL.

A vet's assistant called me from Paws Animal Hospital and offered a morning Wednesday appt which I accepted.

The vet there at Paws Animal Hospital took x-rays after examining our little guy and pointing out the hole in his paw on the bottom.

X-rays turned out OK. The vet said I was very lucky if a pit bull had actually bit him as they can do a great deal of damage very quickly.

They gave me some antibiotic and pain medicine at Paws Animal Hospital.

I contacted the owner of Doggie Doo Run Run, Scott, about our chihuahua/terrier mix getting bitten and suggested he ban the pit bull or pit bull mix. That Monday evening was as far as I know its last visit to Doggie Doo Run Run. It was also its very first with what I kind of think was a new dog owner as well.

I stayed away from the dog parks for almost a month to see how our little fur baby got along with dogs at the mail center and around the block. He seemed to be his old self. A Great Dane in a chihuahua/terrier body.

My dog did return to Doggie Doo Run Run in mid October.

There are some very sweet pit bull mixes that come to Doggie Doo Run Run but there are occasionally quite aggressive ones as well.

And some of the little dogs can also be rather nasty.

Originally Posted by Waltdisney4life (Post 2025493)

Remember it’s the owners who need training not the dogs!

Originally Posted by Flipped (Post 2026156)

So one guy says a dog park is frequented by responsible owners, the bad owners no longer attending. Followed by several pointing out that in the distant past (years ago) there was an incident in a completely different location with even more spreaders of negativity with vauge statements that it happens all over.

It is the same theme on dozens of threads that I've tracked here. The 'regular posters' simply can't move forward without getting everyone to see things through their negative filter. No wonder why people leave this forum so frequently never to be heard from again.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2026179)

I have been going to Villages' area dog parks since November or so of 2006. A lot can happen in those almost 15 years.

Doggie Doo Run Run opened around 2003 and some of the people who were around then-- the dog owners-- still go there. They have different pooches, though. And some have lost mates, etc.

Dog fights and bad encounters between people happen during long periods of time. My first pooch was bit in the Summer of 2007 and the 2nd dog September 13, 2021. They banned both of the dogs that bit my dogs. The first was a Weimaraner along with three other dogs than mistook our first dog for a rabbit. The Weimaraner, Jesse James, was banned as far as I know.

Other Weimaraners have come to the various Villages' area dog parks but I have not had any problems with these. Just with Jesse James.

Many pit bull mixes visit Villages' area dog parks but I try to keep an eye on them if they are new. I let my guard down on 13th of September trusting in other dog park users to keep dogs they are unsure of as to how they will behave out of public settings.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2026636)

Has anyone tried using an air horn to deter dogs engaged or about to engage in a fight or acting aggressive? I know they startle the hell out of me. Or maybe a water blaster.