After work, I went to Maumee Bay State Park to play on the water. While I was pumping up my kite on the grass strip between the parking lot and the beach, there was a Yorkshire Terrier barking constantly from the beach. When I walked my lines, the dog barked. When I went back to get my board, the dog barked. When I launched the kite and walked upwind one beach, the dog barked.

Unfortunately, there wasn't much wind. After doing two down winders from one end of the beach to the other, I decided to play on the beach doing some jumps and scudding. While I did that, the fracking dog barked at me. The woman who held the dog's leash never tried to get the dog to stop. She just lay there holding onto the reel-leash handle while the dog pulled it full out. Tired of hearing the dog bark, I landed the kite and walked back to my car. I opened the tailgate and sat inside waiting to see if the wind would come up. The dog couldn't see me sitting there, so he stopped barking. Twenty minutes later, I thought I felt and saw some better wind, so I went back out and launched the kite. The wind wasn't really any better so, I landed the kite - all the while with the dog barking at me. I gave up and packed up and went home.

What I wanted to do was walk over to the lady and say, "It's a damn shame that you didn't know that your dog was a barker before you brought him to the beach."
That would leave her with two options. She could say, "Yes, I'm sorry if he bothered you. He has never barked like that in the past." Or, she could say, "He always barks like that... even at home."

If she said something like the former, I would have informed her that dogs aren't allowed on that beach and that I found her dog to be very annoying.

If she had something like the latter, I would have said, "Oh. So, you're just an inconsiderate %$#$@ then? You don't care if anyone else is able to enjoy the beach because you think your dog would enjoy spending time with you?" Then, I would have called the ranger to remove her from the beach.