[NAGDU] Off leash dogs! What can I do?

[Tara Briggs]

Hey all! Do any of you have advice about off leash dogs and what to do about it? In the past two days I have encountered three off leash dogs. I live in a condo complex and there are people around here that aren’t very responsible.   I have sent an email

 To the property managers of my condo complex asking them to remind tenants that it is by regulation of the  complex and by law they have to keep the dogs on leash. Today my mom and I went over to a local farmers market. This farmers market is it a playground and we decided we would take my girls over to the playground to play. Somebody thought it would be cute to let their family dog just run around off leash with the kids. Fortunately this dog was friendly and like the two off leash dogs at my complex. Still it was distracting to my seeing-eye dog.  I have to confess I don’t envy the owner of the dog because my mom is able to see and went over to the owner and gave her hell. The owner immediately put her dog unleash. Is there anything that any of you have found it is effective? My current guide and I have been home from the Seeing AI for two weeks on Monday. She’s a black lab named prudence. She is two years old. She’s very sweet and very smart. The thing that is the most hopeful about her is she is able to guide me while I am pulling a wagon with my kids in it behind us. My previous guide was older when I had my kids and she was never able to figure how to do that. This certainly has opened up a lot of  Independence for me! But I have to say it’s pretty scary when I’m walking down the sidewalk and all the sudden we are being growled at. I can hear the owner calling their dog but the dog is not paying any attention to the owner and is far more interested in  growling at us. Fortunately, I have not experienced a dog attacked. But the thought of that happening is pretty darn terrifying!
Tara
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