DUNWOODY, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Debbie Gussoff lives 30 minutes from Dunwoody yet the dog park at Brook Run lets her dog, Rosy, run freely.
But Gussoff and other pet lovers fear their dog park is under attack. The city is talking about moving the dog park, a thought Gussoff cannot stand.
"This park is made for dogs," Gussoff said. "It should stay right here, my dog lives to come here."
Laine Sweezey, the president of the Brook Run Dog Park Association, said some neighbors have complained that the dogs were destroying the trees. Sweezey showed CBS Atlanta a letter that a critic recently sent to a local newspaper, complaining of erosion and exposed tree roots.
"There's certainly an impact," Sweezey said, adding that the problems rest in the park's design, not the dogs.
"This is a giant bowl, so any time it rains everything washes downhill," Sweezey said.
The dog park sits right behind the subdivision where David Williams lives. His backyard sits about 50 yards from the park, but he has no complaints.
"I love it. I think it's nice," Williams said. "They do bark occasionally and I can hear them from my back porch."
When asked if the barking bothers him, Williams answered "no."
A spokesman for Dunwoody said that the dogs' impact on the park's environment is negligible.
The spokesman said the city will move the dogs so they can have more open space, not because they're a problem.
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