ORIGINAL: 50+AirYears

For years, we had no leash law. Any club member who brought dogs out to the field had them well trained. Most would stay in the parking area or by their owner's planes in the pits. A few actually would not go onto the field or into the pits at all until people started packing up at the end of a flying day They were actually better behaved than some of the young kids.
Then a newer generation showed up with undisciplined dogs. When one dog scratched the owner's own kid, the officers got together, gathered some opinions, and set up a leash law requiring that dogs either be on a leash under the owner's control in the pits, or staked out on leash on the far side of the parking road across from the pits. We lost a couple members who had well-behved dogs over that. we do not see very many dogs at the field anymore.