Brutkey

@jacquiharper
@jacquiharper@mastodon.world

@chrisamaphone@hci.social Can’t say we’ve moved into the friend categories you described yet, but I’m enjoying the dog park interactions a great deal.

1. My dog is expected to be there
2. Dress code is Expect Muddy Paws
3. Everyone else is there with a dog, so we can converse about each other’s dogs
4. Wildly diverse group of people — PhDs, teachers, mechanics, transit workers — who talk about dogs, not work
5. I leave the house because my dog reminds me his friends are waiting for him

chris martens
@chrisamaphone@hci.social

@jacquiharper@mastodon.world okay how would you feel if someone without a dog showed up and was friendly with the dogs but also the people? is that weird?? (a dog park just opened up by my house and i like dogs but don’t have one)

@jacquiharper
@jacquiharper@mastodon.world

@chrisamaphone@hci.social This particular dog park requires the dog’s information to get an entry fob (precludes people without dogs from wandering in), but we actually have a guy who walks on the adjacent trail most afternoons and has Milk Bones in his pockets 🦴 When the dogs see him walk by they all race to the fence to say hello 🐕🐕🐩🐕 so now the people do too, though more slowly🚶‍♀️He hands them out on the trail too
(*Of course he asked first, before he started feeding anything to the dogs)