Entitled mom treats dog park like a nursery for her toddler, gets defensive when owner warns her to be careful: "This isn't a playground"

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    Entitled mom thought my dog park was a daycare

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    Took my dog to the usual dog park and this random mom shows up with her toddler. No dog, just a toddler. Kid starts wandering around near the dogs and she goes "It's fine, he loves puppies."
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    I said "This isn't a playground, dogs might jump or nip." She goes "Well maybe they shouldn't be so aggressive then??" Ma'am it's a dog park. Not a babysitting zone for your kid named Braxxon.
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    JTBlakeinNYC We had to put a sign on the gate to our dog run banning children under 12 because parents were treating it like a petting zoo. What idiot brings a small child into an enclosed area with dozens of big dogs running pell mell off-leash??
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    cuteselinah OP legit had a kid try to ride a golden retriever once like it was a pony. parents were like "aww he's so adventurous." I was like bro this isn't a zoo questline.
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    jondoughntyaknow Probably the same parent who brought their kids to eat their Burger King lunch at the dog park's picnic table. You can imagine how that went.
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    EstherClemmens If they were dumb enough to complain, I'd say, "The dogs find it incredibly r de that you would eat in front of them, in their own dog run, and not offer them anything."
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    Caseyk1921 My youngest (4 years old) wants to pat every dog she sees loves them, but I as a responsible parent don't let her other than the obvious not all are friendly ask first peoples pets aren't a free for all.
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    It's really not that hard to respect hey not everything is for kids & we parents aren't entitled to take the kids everywhere
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    robopirateninjasaur "Well maybe you shouldn't be such an incompetent parent letting your kids around aggressive animals then?"
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    Cantteachcommonsense Dog park I used to go to frequently we had a guy pull up with a van full of kids and a pizza on a sat. We refused to let him into the park. He threatened to call the cops, we told him we would call for him.
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    confabulatrix My lab once gently stole half a sandwich from a toddler's hand in the dog park. The dogless mom was so mad at me.
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    Connect_Office8072 I would have told the mom, oh good, they haven't been fed yet, glad you brought them a snack.
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    MollyTibbs A few years back someone was complaining on a local fb group that they took their toddlers for a picnic to the beach and were overrun by dogs. After a few people commiserated someone asked which
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    beach. It was the local dog beach, very heavily sign posted as dogs allowed off leash etc. SMH. Needless to say all sympathy vanished and the poster got dumped on to the point they deleted their post.
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    Revolutionary-Yak-47 Despite the no kids under 12, only two "beings" per parent and no admission without a dog signs all over this was super common at our dog park. I got to be pretty merciless about it, I called the park office (it's
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    part of a huge complex) every time they walked in with no dog or left their toddler with us and walked off. Luckily the park staff was as annoyed as the dog. owners.
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    But yeah. I have a herding dog. She would absolutely run over your unsupervised toddler going after a Frisbee. I lost it on the woman who's 8-9 year old was warned to get away my dog who was resting with her toy multiple times and then reached
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    in my dog's mouth for a ball. I yelled at the kid, idgaf that she wasn't mine, get your hand out of my dog's mouth! I won't have her put down for "biting" because some brat can't hear "no." Mom left in a huff and hopefully had to explain what the words I said meant to her kids.
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    SLevine262 I also don't understand why people would let their kids sit on the grass or run barefoot. Do you not realize that every blade of grass in this park has been doused with canine body fluids? And that some of those dogs could have worms that are transmissible to humans?
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    III-Delivery2692 Don't bring your toddler to my dog park and I won't bring my unleashed dog to the kid's playground.
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    hexknits I once watched a parent let their kid play in the sand at the dog park while they ignored the kid and their dog to chat. the sand that dogs pee in constantly. could not believe how disgusting that was.
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    KVG47 Wow...I can't imagine bringing my kids into a dog park. We'll watch folks sometimes away from the gate to avoid any issues, but bringing them in? No way. Not safe for the kids or the dogs.
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    No dogs on the playground; no kids in the dog park. Seem like pretty reasonable expectations all things considered.

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