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We've been taking the kids out on the bikes to a local park/woodland area that we're lucky enough to have nearby. We go early when there's less people around and so far it's seemed like a pretty good way of getting them outside and running around, while keeping away from people: the only people we do see are dog walkers. No one has their dog on a lead so we're frequently getting dogs coming up to us to say hello. We're a pretty dog-friendly family and the girls are good with them (not afraid, but wary until introduced), so I'd not really thought about this until yesterday: Isn't that really fucking irresponsible of the owners?
It kind of completely undermines all this social distancing if they're touching their dog, then the dog bounds over and touches us right? I'm going to start politely asking owners to keep their dogs away now, but as I've yet to see anyone keeping their dog on a lead, I can't help feeling like the only option open to me to avoid this, is just to not go there now :-/