please stop bringing your rude dog into the small-dog side 'just for a minute'

Midnight Otter · 8 likes

Thank you. This exact thing is why I stopped going at peak hours.

Aarav Sharma · 6 likes

A lot of owners confuse social with indiscriminate. Not every dog needs to greet every dog.

Ethan Brooks · 5 likes

The 'he's friendly!' yell from 40 feet away has ruined that phrase for me forever.

Minji Kim · 3 likes

I bring coffee at 6:30 am now. dawn dog park people are way more normal

Zofia Kowalska · 3 likes

Gate rushing is one of those things that's funny exactly zero times.

Milan Visser · 3 likes

The worst is when they stand there yelling the dog's name like volume counts as training.

Omar Al Falasi · 1 likes

Counterpoint: some parks divide by size so badly that the medium dogs fit nowhere. Doesn't excuse gate-crashing though.

Aoife Murphy · 0 likes

Yeah that's fair. I'm not mad about a 28 lb polite dog. I'm mad about owners watching chaos unfold and shrugging.

Silver Rider · 1 likes

My building dog chat acts like avoiding the park means your dog has a tragic life. Meanwhile my dog prefers two calm friends and a sniffy field.

Brave Atlas · 1 likes

People hear 'friendly' and think it covers zero impulse control.

Aria Thompson · 0 likes

I'll be the tiny dissent here: some small-dog sections are chaos too. Size alone doesn't equal safer behavior.

Aoife Murphy · 4 likes

Agreed honestly. I've seen tiny tyrants. I just want people to respect whichever side they're choosing instead of freelancing it.