Dogs look scary at Sepulveda Basin Off-Leash Dog Park but they are having a blast – Daily News

It was an unusually cool spring Friday, April 11, at the Sepulveda Basin Off-Leash Dog Park in Encino. The just over six-acre park has three separate fenced-in areas: one large area for dogs of all sizes, one for smaller and timid dogs, and one for small dogs.

The 30 or so dogs at the off-leash park ranged in size from a tiny teacup poodle to a large Great Pyrenees. They raced around, chasing balls, chasing each other, checking their “pee mail” — and playing hard.

Dogs can play rough, and if you aren’t familiar with how they play, you might think they are fighting. Play-fighting is an integral part of how dogs communicate and socialize. According to yappy.com, “Unlike us humans, play fighting in dogs is a totally normal way to communicate and socialize. It’s also a brilliant way of expending some energy that they may have pent up.” Sometimes when a “dog parent” is watching their dog play-fighting with another dog, “the noises and movements they make seem aggressive, but it’s all in good fun.”

Dogs will growl, wrestle, slap with their paws, and of course bite at each other as they enjoy some rough-housing. It may seem intense sometimes, but the controlled chaos is not a fight, it’s more of a game that dogs play.

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