Self-proclaimed city park queen lets her unruly big dog run wild, blames responsible small dog owners for every mishap, and demands the entire public park cater to her personal whims: ‘Her dog takes off after a squirrel or deer. She blames us’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Aug 5, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Every city park has its ecosystem, a delicate dance of regulars, squirrels, and the inevitable citizen who believes her proximity to the entrance bequeaths her divine right over every blade of grass. 

This self-appointed Park Monarch, reigning from her half-a-block fortress, whose concept of stewardship involves sending her untrained Newfoundland of a dog on daily solo missions to grace the world with theft, drool, and deposits that would shame a dairy cow.

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  • This is sovereignty by squatter’s rights, a kind of suburban Game of Thrones but with more tennis balls and fewer functioning leashes.

    Meanwhile, in a parallel dimension of basic decency, The Group assembles, a ragtag band of small dog enthusiasts whose unified front against chaos consists of scooping, socializing, and producing obedience displays that would put the Westminster crowd to shame. Their crime, apparently, is occupying space in the Queen’s sightline. Sitting quietly in the shade, incidentally near the epicenter of her cat’s next trauma, they are accused with the fervor of a medieval witch trial and about as much evidence.

  • So, there is a big park in my town that has grassy areas, a playground, several ball fields, river, trail, and forested areas.
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  • One day it’s their location, the next it’s their proximity to rubbish bins, and always, always, it is the air they choose to breathe in Her Majesty’s view. Reality check: your mortgage stops at the sidewalk; the rest is mutual territory, also known as “public property.” Yet the Queen continues her campaign, demanding the peasants stop sitting, stop walking, or perhaps just stop existing in the Royal Park altogether.


    You almost admire the delusion. Almost.

  • A group of us dog owners have been coming to the park every day for years. All our dogs are fixed and vaxxed, mostly mini breeds, we scoop our , carry leashes to restrain our dogs when they are not playing zoomie or fetch in the grassy area, and all our pups have excellent recall.
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  • The city law states that a dog must be under the control of it's owner at all times, so the regular group meets at the same time each evening, and we practice recall and other obedience and socialization tasks in addition to leashed walks and play.
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  • Sometimes there are five or six dogs at a time.
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  • One woman, who is not part of our group by her own choice, owns a home about a half a block from the park, on the same side of the street as the entrance to the park.
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  • There is no HOA, and it is a joint city/county park. She owns a big dog and several cats.
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  • She allows her dog to take himself to the park. The dog is friendly, but ill mannered and poorly trained.
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  • He will jump up on people with untrimmed paws and leave scratches, steal balls/toys in play from other dogs and take them home, drink all the water we've hauled in for our dogs, and there is no one to scoop his massive poops since his owner is nowhere in sight.
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  • We usually take turns scooping for her so that we don't end up having to clean shoes/paws.
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  • Rarely, the owner will walk her dog through the park on a leash.
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  • Sometimes her dog takes off after a squirrel or deer while she is holding onto the leash, and she gets dragged. She blames us.
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  • When she steps in , she blames us.
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  • Sometimes, her cat will follow her and her dog on a walk. If our dogs notice her cat, or start towards it before being recalled, she blames us.
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  • A few days ago, we were all sitting in the shade of a big tree in the middle of a grassy field in the center of the park.
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  • It was a hot day, and our dogs were worn out, all sitting at our feet.
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  • She was on a trail about 300 ft away, behind us, to the left.
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  • Her cat was following her as she walked her dog. We, humans and dogs, did not notice her or her animals until she began yelling at us.
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  • She specifically called out my name and demanded I leash my dog.
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  • Since my dog was at my feet, I clipped her leash on immediately.
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  • The woman continued screaming as she walked away.
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  • We kept all the dogs leashed for about 10 minutes, wondering what the yelling was about, and then resumed play.
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  • She appeared from behind us a few minutes later, and my friend's dog started to chase the cat before being recalled. No contact was made.
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  • The next day, the woman stopped my friends on their morning walk and hysterically accused my dog of attacking her cat and grabbing it by the throat.
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  • It never happened.
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  • She also informed "The Group" that she didn't like where we sat in the park, because she didn't like having to walk around us, or to even see us.
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  • According to her, we can't sit near the entrance, near the trash cans, in the middle of the park--away from everyone, in the picnic area, or near the trails, because she might want to be there on the rare occasions she walks her dog on a leash.
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  • Essentially, she doesn't want us in the park, since she lives near it, she feels she has more rights than we have.
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  • We've been at the park, in the same spot every day since.
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