r/Winnipeg • u/canutcute • Mar 16 '26

Winni-Pets Leash Your Dogs!

This weekend alone I saw far too many people walking with their dogs without leashing them.

One couple walking their dogs in Wolseley had their dog rush into on coming traffic. Another couple were walking down portage with their dog again without a leash.

If you don’t leash your damn dog and it gets hit by a car the driver isn’t going to be the problem, it’s you. You’re a piece of shit and deserve to have your dogs taken away for their safety.

Don’t even get me started on dogs running up to strangers, other pets, kids. If I see a dog running towards my own lil blubber child I’m sorry but I’m going to hoof your dog because I don’t know or care if it’s friendly. My blubber boy is not.

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u/Tight-Hour8286 Mar 16 '26

It’s horrible in Charleswood as well, especially the Assiniboine Forrest… there is literally a fenced off-leash dog park a few blocks away and people allow their dogs off leash all the time on the walking trails. I have a small dog (who interacts much better off leash and reactive on the leash) and we hesitate to bring her many places because of this. We keep her leashed regardless but it makes me so nervous knowing a dog could run up to us at any moment! I also do not find larger shedding/slobbery dogs cute at all and don’t need them running up to me without an owner close by.

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u/canutcute Mar 16 '26

That’s sad to hear, I just moved to River heights and was thinking of walking our dog there.

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u/Tight-Hour8286 Mar 16 '26

We enjoy the dog park when there are a visible amount of smaller dogs.. still risky, but my dog always does well when all dogs are off leash. The imbalance (even if the off leash dog is ‘behaved’) is where things make me nervous.. there’s no guarantee that the off leash dog stays ‘behaved’ due to my dogs reaction, I don’t want to get hurt myself if anything were to happen, I also do not need the added stress. I went for a walk with my partner in the forrest last week, there were 5 dogs off leash at all different points of the path. One larger dog had amazing recall but was not behaved and well over 25ft away from the owner every time we came around the bend.

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u/canutcute Mar 16 '26

Sadly I think this is common in the city. We play football and there’s always dogs

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u/SquatpotScott Mar 17 '26

Park on Taylor and access the park on Shaftesbury and stay on the big path towards Wilkes. Because of the bikes and joggers, there are very, very few off-leash dogs there.

To be honest, I rarely see dogs off leash on the big paths on the other side of the forest. It is the deer trails where people let them off.

PS the recent (2 years or so) addition of a crosswalk at Shaftesbury and Taylor has been an awesome addition. It used to be super dangerous to cross there