Thread: Dogs in national parks

Just that attitude of general disrespect for regulations and other people....the I can do what ever I want and **** anyone who thinks differently brigade.
The fines for dogs in NPS are hefty, be nice to be able to notify the ranger.

As long as the dogs are well behaved I cant see a problem with them being in a national park myself.
Revheads in their souped up 4WD's and the other irresponsible park visitors do far more environmental damage in the parks than someone's pet will do

depends on the state.
some states allow dogs in NP's

Originally Posted by Eevo

depends on the state.
some states allow dogs in NP's

Which states/park??

I’ve seen state forests and state reserves allow dogs but I’m yet to come across a National Park that allows dogs.

It's like dogs on beaches. At Avoca despite many signs people have dogs in the swimming area ,even though there is about a 1Km long dog beach 500m away. The councils cannot be stuffed to pay for enough rangers so the chances of getting caught are slim. Recently the rangers came. They booked everyone quite safely parked on a grass verge on the road outside. Uproar!
Same with National Parks. They will not pay rangers particularly on weekends so people will do what they can get away with, although they get outraged if they are caught.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by Eevo

depends on the state.
some states allow dogs in NP's

It should read some parks allow dogs (On a leash)
Which might be classed as reserves

Always the same exuses. But - -
it's a small dog, it won't do any harm
it's a well behaved dog
it's a quiet generator
I won't be using the chain saw for long ......
.W.

The reason for the ban on domestic dogs in NPs is well touted by Park management. It is that the scent left behind by your household pet may inhibit non canine native fauna from freely moving about.

Of course this presupposes that the native fauna has learnt to distinguish between a domestic pet dogs scent from the scent of the thousands of wild feral dogs which live and roam uninhibitedly in those same NPs. That a wild dogs scent will supposedly be ignored by all fauna but not your pet dogs scent.