Groundhog246,
I can agree with everything you said.
I'm an activist for responsible dog ownership in Markham and have already been in a face to face with the Markham Ward 2 Counselor and the enforcement officer over such things. I’m actually very anal about it.
Although my dogs are inexpensive as dogs go, they're still kind of costly to me at over $2000 a piece not to mention the $3000 in Basic, Advanced OB and Shutzhund training for the shepherd and the sentimental value of course. Needless to say, I'm not tying that kind of value up to a bumper and leaving it unattended. Nor am I going to lock it up in a car to slow-cook for an hour. That’s just stupid!
The place was toted as a picnic type area were the family could go which included supervised animals. Giving the dogs an outing gave my wife a reason to tag along since the dogs never have unsupervised outings and gave the place a greater purpose then just diving. Training aside, we're firm believers in a 6 foot NON flexi leashes so it’s kind of hard for them to get into trouble on those.
All this having been said, once we discovered the guys feelings about dogs, that removed them and my wife’s reason for going and since I've already dove it 3 times now, I really don't need to dive it again anytime soon. When the fellow told me, "no dogs", I told him I didn't know and would post it for him on the boards so others wouldn't make the same mistake, and here it is. Let it be known everyone he doesn’t want your dogs there. Leave them at home!
Now I've been getting a lot of feedback about the level of training of the dog, lack of supervision, etc so.. I did attach a picture on the original post from that very day. These fellows have $3000+ in training from Basic & Advanced OB to Shutzhund not that a passerby would know this. They are on 6 foot leashes with a live human being on the other end of those leashes quietly reading a book, with a ready supply of poo-bags and zero tolerance for barking and digging (Otherwise, what’s the point of supervision?) and a healthy distain for off leash, unsupervised animals like the one that is allowed to roam there and has accosted her.
