While Thorne is at Boarding School, Mags went to Great Brook Farm in Carlisle, Ma with us. We read in the Dog Lover's guide to New England Book that it was a great place to take dogs, and they mention off leash. We wouldn't dare take Maggie off leash, she's a runner and a sight hound!!
She had fun except for one incident where a father had been videotaping his son near the farm animals and his dogs were supposed to be on leash in that area but when we walked up there, those two big Great Pyranees of his came rushing at Maggie and they were not leashed. One of them grabbed Maggie instantly and pinned her down and tried biting her and Rob, my hubby, was trying to get the dog off of her and yelling. Finally the owner came over, very apologetic.
Now a Rant (again):
Anything can happen with dogs at anytime and owners NEED to be aware of their dogs when out on a trail or at a park. This happens way to often, owners just let their dogs do whatever as they are talking or something, not paying attention. What makes me more upset is that if no one is paying attention they don't see what happened and blame could be wrongly placed. If we had our Doberman with us and that dog did that to him, he probably would have defended himself but would have been blamed because he is a Doberman.
Anyways, it was a good day up until that point. The place was nice but I wouldn't recommend off leash here even though it's allowed on the trails. Reason being is that there are lots of horse back riders at this place.
Here are some photos from our day
