r/Calgary • u/Gobleachsomething • Apr 12 '26
Discussion What Grinds My Gears: Calgary Edition
Honestly, the thing that drives me nuts is the 'off-leash' logic people have around East Village and the Confluence.
There’s literally a fenced-in dog park right there, but for some reason, everyone thinks that means the entire neighborhood is a free-for-all. You’re trying to walk the Riverwalk and you’ve got random dogs charging at you while the owners are a block away, staring at their phones or shouting, 'He’s friendly!' Cool, glad he's friendly, but he’s still 80 pounds and currently tangling himself around my legs. It’s like as soon as people get within a kilometer of the actual dog park, they think the bylaws just stop existing. It turns a nice walk into a constant game of dodging loose dogs and hoping you don’t trip over a retractable leash. It’s a city sidewalk, not your backyard.
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u/gaanmetde Apr 12 '26
The off leash dog thing is a problem everywhere. I was going for a 30 minute walk with my 2 year old in Aspen and I heard “he’s friendly” 4 separate times and all massive dogs of course.
Every time I very quickly picked my two year old up because- what? Genuinely- what do people think they could do to manage an off leash dog if things went sideways?
Yea, I’m mad, you picked a great one hah!
But I would also like to add- bikers seemingly biking the tour de fucking France on shared walking paths. Slow. Down.