Have I stumbled across Practical Caravans annual 'Wind Up Weekend' as I've never come across such a load of B S about dogs ?
I've never been a dog lover and I didn't grow up around dogs. My wife had her first dog when I met her and I trained that dog as it was young and a little wayward. I knew how I wanted the dog to behave and trained it by trial and error and reading up on dog training. We've had 6 other dogs during our 35 years together and never had the behaviour or worries described here.
Our brother and sister pairing now would never be able to do what they do with the crackpot muzzling idea! I hate being licked by dogs and ours just don't do that, and they know better than going near cow or horse dung. They were trained from tiny puppies.
A trained guide dog being let off the leash to run free by people who don't normally handle it just shows why some people should never own dogs and how irresponsible and lacking in knowledge of dogs some people are. Just makes shows they are unfit to comment on dog behaviour or care.
Campsite dog walking areas for many people are just a lazy option, most dogs need far more excercise than a wander around a small corner of a campsite or a wander around the block at home. If dogs get proper excercise they rarely if ever get in to any mischief.
It seems the beef here is that dogs worry some non dog owning people and they've seen the odd problem on campsites. We've had balls hit our caravan, awning and cars numerous times, kids hit the car and us on bikes and scooter affairs. I also had the irate parents of a very annoying loud thug ten year old go phsyco as I drove over his radio controlled car that he drove under our Disco
( What a top result that was, completely accidental and the kids own fault) We've had incidents involving kites a trip to A&E for my wife as kids flooded the floor of the washroom. She came out of the shower and slipped on the slippery wet tile floor and hit her head badly. I also twisted my back when I stepped on a kids skateboard left outside site reception office. Noise from adults and kids and their various gadgets beat dog noise by a country mile. Plenty of other things I could beef about. Dogs are the least of any problems. Our dogs don't allways come with us in he caravan and if dogs were truly a big problem I think we'd have noticed by now.
We don't tend to sit around the pitch most of the time we're away in the caravan, it could be that we just have better things to do with our time rather than sit and pick on dogs and their owners