Leash your damn dogs

Getting kinda tired of the bases of popular crags becoming dog parks. I really couldn't care less if your dog is chill and leashed up, but man is it tiring for there to be convoys of dogs walking/running up and down the base of crags.

I'm out here trying to belay my climber, and your dog is wandering around my feet and rope pile. I don't really care if your dog is friendly. I didn't bring a dog, so help me out by not making me deal with yours.

Leash up your dogs folks.

Better yet….leave ‘em home.

you must be new around here

Buy one of these and throw it in your crag bag. Works wonders. 

Dog repellent

This is really a topic that should be discussed at greater length.  

Maybe someone could invent a series of saddles that fit a range of dogs. The kids would have something to do? 

This one deserves repeating.

Seems like a single-pitcher problem.  ;)

Bill Lawrywrote:

Seems like a single-pitcher problem.  ;)

Right? There’s no way someone would leave their dog whining and running around the bottom of a multi pitch rock. Surely we can all agree that should never happen. And yet…

(This post intended for satirical purposes only.)

Better yet, just leave them home.

OMG, when I go out for an emergency sesh on my proj., I have to deal with dogs stepping on my $1,000 worth of gear. The tragedy.... 

Once you finish installing the toprope with the drone, keep it hovering to repell cragdogs.

I must be a psychopath. I enjoy most people and most dogs I see at the crags.

Sep Mwrote:

Right? There’s no way someone would leave their dog whining and running around the bottom of a multi pitch rock. Surely we can all agree that should never happen. And yet…

Lol. Maybe I don’t climb in the right multi-pitch places.

Seriously, I’ve only encountered one dog at the bottom of a multi-pitch climb: Birdland @ RedRock.  It was the most mellow dog.

So, yeah, seems like a single-pitch problem.
 ;)

^^^^

this is an ASCII “wink” like my last post meaning a little intended mischievousness.

Mark Starrwrote:

No memes in the dog thread

Thankfully I've trained my dog... to survive solely off sandwiches stashed in crag packs.  

What if my dog is leashed, but not tethered? He's only gonna eat your sammich. I promise he won't piss on your rope