“People in the parks don't feel safe with the dogs running around off-leash and not knowing how they're going to react to their presence.'
Linda Tarazona was sitting with her dog in Congress Park when a park ranger started yelling. The dog was recovering from surgery after being bitten by another dog and wasn't wearing a leash — but couldn't do much more than walk slowly and wasn't up for running or playing, Tarazona says she told the ranger.
“No one wants to be bitten by a dog, and no one wants dogs rushing up to their children," says Linda Hull, another neighbor pushing the idea of off-leash hours."Dogs should be under control. Everybody agrees on that." Although there are twelve dog parks in the city, most of the active members of the group live in District 10, one of the more densely populated parts of the city. In this district, there is just one permanent dog park — outside the Carla Madison Recreation Center, which dog owners say is too small and barren to be healthy for their pets.
After recently passing his foster pup on to his forever home, Hinds doesn’t currently have a dog — but when he was first elected, he did have a dog that he was known to walk off-leash. After being called out, he started observing the rules. The PRAB says that while it recognizes a need for dog recreation areas, it believes that changing the leash policy is not a good solution.The Turners' dog enjoying the sun at Congress Park.“What's happening is these sting operations — and I have had it happen to me five times — where eight trucks will pull up into Congress Park and guys will all get out of their trucks,” Hull recounts. “They'll do a giant sweep, and they'll ticket everybody. … They're coming out of trees.
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