Even though the city clearly states dogs must be leashed for some some reason bad dog owners don't care.
Today while on the barren frozen lake on park property, 2 people with 4 unleashed dogs walking, let one of their dogs come up to the launch site aggressively barking at my young son. They lied and said it was a puppy and wanted to play. Complete horse poo as the dog's tail wasn't wagging, the dog was at least 9 months old, and people need to realize that the time to train a dog is when it's little! I know as we had dogs as a kid and my brother was a professional dog trainer. I have had friendly dogs come up to us and that's not the problem...
At the incident my only recourse was to harshly remind the owners that it's park property, etc. What would you bring along for self defense?
Next time I will film the dog but I do need to defend my young son.
What's super annoying is that the lake is over 100 acres and nearly empty except for 4 fisherman. It's like going to the bathroom with 10 empty urinals and some jerk needs to pee in the urinal you are using. Surely they could stick to the 99 acres we are not using?
Brighter notes:
Except for the extremely cloudy day, the launch conditions are perfect with near zero wind. Eagerly awaiting my nylon chutes as streamers on ice results in broken fins. A huge benefit of hard snow is that all the gliders we launched was easily visible for after landing. I launched my NASA pegasus clone and the flight was perfect and the landing via streamer was a perfect belly flop which slowed it down nicely. See the images attached for how vacant the lake was...
Today while on the barren frozen lake on park property, 2 people with 4 unleashed dogs walking, let one of their dogs come up to the launch site aggressively barking at my young son. They lied and said it was a puppy and wanted to play. Complete horse poo as the dog's tail wasn't wagging, the dog was at least 9 months old, and people need to realize that the time to train a dog is when it's little! I know as we had dogs as a kid and my brother was a professional dog trainer. I have had friendly dogs come up to us and that's not the problem...
At the incident my only recourse was to harshly remind the owners that it's park property, etc. What would you bring along for self defense?
Next time I will film the dog but I do need to defend my young son.
What's super annoying is that the lake is over 100 acres and nearly empty except for 4 fisherman. It's like going to the bathroom with 10 empty urinals and some jerk needs to pee in the urinal you are using. Surely they could stick to the 99 acres we are not using?
Brighter notes:
Except for the extremely cloudy day, the launch conditions are perfect with near zero wind. Eagerly awaiting my nylon chutes as streamers on ice results in broken fins. A huge benefit of hard snow is that all the gliders we launched was easily visible for after landing. I launched my NASA pegasus clone and the flight was perfect and the landing via streamer was a perfect belly flop which slowed it down nicely. See the images attached for how vacant the lake was...