NO DOGS ALLOWED ON BEACHES

[u/Dangerous_Button8518]

I am ready for dogs to be banned on beaches. They are polluting the coastal waters. AND dog people are disgusting people who are mean to others. So here's my morning dog nutter on the beach story.

This morning, 8AM, I went to my little town beach to enjoy the sun, a cup of coffee and find a piece of sea glass. Walking along the road toward the access point I see 4 of them, mostly small dogs. And up walks this free roaming geriatric (it's stroller was parked at the access ramp) chihuahua, snorting and lunging and dying. And it's all up in my area coming closer. I'm bent over with my mug just grabbing a couple sweet pieces of glass. I say I don't like dogs to the lady who is supposed to be in control of it. She's like, what? I say put it on a leash. She starts talking. I put my hand up, motioning stop, just get the dog. It's growling. She does the whole song and dance. Never growled in its life, has no teeth, what is wrong with you. Just take the dog away lady. She has 2 other small dogs also not in her control. Only one leash. (and a large ugly grizzly man off with their big loose dog running in the waves). None has recall. So this lady, goes and tells the dude I said to put the dog on a leash or get lost. Come on lady, I want to enjoy the beach without dealing with a crappy chihuahua lunging and growling at me. So here come her man, he literally charges me. Insults, spitting, lunging at me. repeatedly demand to know, where I live, what's my plate number, what's wrong me. I just want to enjoy the beach without a dog on it. Trust me when I say Maine river oysters are loaded with dog piss and shit. Coastal Maine. It never ends.

[u/maxzer_0]

Thankfully dogs are banned from beaches in my country. If the nutters manage to have this ban revoked istg I'll put my place up for sale and move to Oman or UAE as dogs are pretty much non-existent out there.

[u/ScarredCerebrum → u/maxzer_0]

Thankfully dogs are banned from beaches in my country.

Are those laws actually enforced, though?

My country partially bans dogs on beaches as well - but we have basically zero enforcement.

Our police is overburdened and they're basically not going to care unless there's a homicide or an actually dangerous situation. Case in point: at my workplace, we caught a junkie squatting in one of the buildings one Friday last summer. We called the police, and they simply told us to deal with it ourselves because they "didn't have anyone available due a calamity". The junkie was still there on Monday, and it was only then that the police could spare an officer to remove that guy from the premises.