datamuse
Ya know, I kind of hate to bring this perennial topic up yet AGAIN, but…while running in the woods at Westcrest Park this evening I encountered a dog, off-leash, whose owner was off taking photographs or something (at least, I think I saw a camera). The dog growled at me more than once and did not respond to his owner the first three or four times she called him by name.
This is the second time this summer I’ve encountered a potentially aggressive dog OUTSIDE the off-leash area at Westcrest, and yes I have reported it. I see complaints in this forum all the time about illicit activities that go on in that park, and sure, I’ve sometimes come across evidence of them, but today marks the FIRST time I have ever felt unsafe in that park in the ten years I have lived in West Seattle.
I’ve been pretty much live and let live about dogs being off leash in that park, because most of them have been well behaved. I don’t like to completely revise my thinking based on one incident, but this encounter is making me consider it.