Eliseo R.
Yelp
I've seen others express this so I'd like to share my sentiment too. The difference between the owners of the "large" dog park and the "small" dog park section is crazy. I brought my puppy to the large pen because my dog was always fine handling itself with large dogs and he has a strong stature being half American bully mix.
However, as soon as we came in, the other dogs snarled, pounced on him and did aggressive play that involved teeth, clawing, and ganged up on my dog. The owners just watched and didn't care. I would step in and try to calm down my dog but the reality was these other dogs were the one starting the aggressiveness so I was blocking the other dogs. It was too much because other dogs ganged up and tossed around my dog like I said. Meanwhile, this lady just walks up to me, not helping and instead asks in the most condescending tone ever, "Oh is your dog not used to rough play?" This ticked me off. Like yes. My dog is, he's been to several dog parks and played around with large dogs but getting ganged up on, trampled, pushed around, bit and clawed by every large dog in here? No.
My girl wanted to record but caught on with what was happening and gave an excuse of her needing to use the restroom. We hastily put the leash back on and walked off, needing to deal with the other angry dogs all the way until we went out the exit.
We calmed ourselves and my dog down by looking at the rest of the large park. There was a nice lawn and several exercise machines around the area. We actually saw and used a bathroom stall (clean and well-kept for a public park restroom).
We also overheard these two women with their dog around our dog's size walking by. One goes "Is this the small dog pen?" "Yeah ew we're not going to that one, it's for babies, we want him to play rough." We were apalled and realized that these owners encourage this violent and aggressive behavior in their dogs over there. We've seen rough play and the actions of the dogs there were much more violent and dangerous it was so uncomfortable to watch.
We decided to go to the small dog pen instead and our dog was great here even though he was larger than most. He played around accordingly by running with other dogs and he didn't pounce on them despite them being smaller (compared to the way he was handled by the other larger dogs). Another owner had a ball and it got the attention of most of the dogs as they threw it around. We had a way better experience here and got to sit and relax as we watched our dog interact and play with other well-behaved dogs who were attentively looked at by their owners.
This park was beautiful! Had a great time nonetheless, just definitely be wary of those types of owners with large dogs.