u/Response-Glad

I grew up going to long grove and loveddd the strawberry donuts with cinnamon sugar. I went again last year and was so disappointed. Donuts were sold out. A few novelty strawberry food items but not much actually fresh. Tons and tons of amusement park rides.

I do not care about the rides or attractions or photo ops. I want the best strawberry treats we can get near Chicago. Honestly less attractions the better probably so I don't deal with crowds.

Any suggestions?

We have a few people in our neighborhood who walk their dogs unleashed. One of our dogs was attacked by an unleashed dog in a previous neighborhood and gets extremely reactive to unleashed dogs. She's medicated, we have worked through it in training, but she is just traumatized and when this happens she may not be able to bathroom ok etc etc.

This is something we can generally handle for most of the unleashed dogs in the neighborhood by avoiding them, but we have one neighbor a few doors down with a large unleashed dog who sees we are trying to avoid her and will still continue coming down the same path or even (I'm sure unintentionally) following us when we change our path to avoid her.

We are at the point where when we see this neighbor, we have to freeze and wait until they're totally out of sight until we can continue.

We tried leaving a note asking the neighbor to please leash their dog for the sake of other dogs but this didn't seem to change anything. We would have asked in person except 1) we always see them when we have our dogs with us, and obviously can't approach with our dogs, and 2) we have also seen this neighbor bite train their dog unleashed on the sidewalk. While the dog seems well trained, I don't know this person and have no idea how they would react, let alone their dog.

Today, my partner finally was able to speak with this neighbor while I managed the dogs, and the neighbor was extremely dismissive, told my partner they didn't care if our dog was reactive, didn't care if we wanted to call the cops or otherwise, etc etc etc.

I'm at a loss. I just want my dog to be able to pee in peace. The dog seems well trained and I respect what this owner has done to train their dog, but nonetheless the public sidewalk is not a good place for aggressive play or walking around an unleashed dog. As a person who used to have a powerful large and aggressive rescue, I cannot imagine how that dog would have reacted to this one and I am afraid of the day that someone in our neighborhood has a dog like that who starts a fight with this dog, and how our current dogs will react.

I'm not someone who would normally ever consider calling the authorities but I feel so powerless and unsafe in this situation I don't know what to do - we certainly didn't star tthere. But if I could avoid that, I would prefer it. Seems like she loves her dog, I love our dogs, there should be a peaceful solution.

Has anyone successfully managed a situation like this successfully?