As a park ranger, I have an ongoing battle getting people to comply with our leash law. At one park I worked at, I broke up three dog fights in one day. All were started by off-leash dogs harassing leashed dogs. I get really frustrated with the whole situation. A leashed dog stands no chance when jumped by an unleashed animal.

I was also bitten from behind by a black lab one day when I was cleaning out a drainage ditch. He was with a husky and neither were on leashes. The owners were a good five minutes down the trail and had taken the collars off so that we wouldn't hear the tags jingle and bust them for having loose dogs. The first thing that they said to me was "Oh, but he's never done that before!" and the second was "there was nobody here." Then they couldn't understand why I evicted them from the park.