... in any place where there will be dogs there are a not insignificant number of dog owners who will push the envelope of the rules.
And the same is true of humans in general. Our last night there a few weeks ago 5 rental RVs pulled into the 300 loop and then out poured the children - a dozen or more, all between the ages of 5-15.
Their human parents then proceeded to let them run wild until past midnight (well after "quiet hours") - racing through other people's campsites and screaming at the top of their lungs.
I enjoyed this no more than you apparently enjoy being around other people's pets.
And for the record, my 3 dogs were quietly hanging out in my camper.
A couple of weekends before that we had 9 teenagers in a tent for 2 nights who swore and caroused and carried on until past 2 am - even going so far as to crash their golf cart into the utility box.
You can imagine how little we enjoyed that disruption to our peace and quiet.
I can give you a laundry list of all of the other
humans that broke the rules in our 3 weeks there whose actions very definitely impacted our peace and quiet and overall good time. And I can tell you there were
exponentially more human rule breakers than canine.
People will break the rules period. In my experience dog owner's are not at a higher risk of rule breaking. In fact I've experienced the opposite when it comes to people who camp with their pets. MOST understand what a privilege it is to be able to bring our beloved companion animals with us when we travel, and we do all that we can to follow the rules so that we don't spoil it for everyone.
And what about the parents that just let their beloved offspring run around in the area beside our campsite unsupervised (as in they were IN the camper while the kids were out running around) - tearing and stomping at the cypress knees and whacking everything in sight with sticks?
But there are bad apples in every bunch. That's no reason to burn the orchard.
Further, having a dog anywhere near my resort pool is unacceptable to me. I don't want my family & I to be walking around in bathing suits and bare feet having to navigate around various canines, especially those big enough that young owners struggle to keep control of them (as in your experience at FtW). The life guard should have called Disney security and gave those particular dog owners an ultimatum:
I actually agree with you here. And I should clarify that in 3 weeks at the Fort we saw ONE dog being dragged by ONE child near the pool. And the dog was a little white, 10 lb mop dog - hardly a Rottweiler, and this was hardly an every day occurrence. And yes, someone from Disney absolutely
should have spoken to them about this.
But they also should crack down on the underage cart drivers, campers running around and screaming til the wee hours, and every other rule breaker whose actions impact other campers.
IMHO dogs should not be allowed at Disney resorts or Fort Wilderness (or as I now sometimes refer to it, Fort Canine).
And you are entitled to your opinion.
I'm afraid you won't find a ton of people who share it at 'Fort Canine' though.
We're very "friendly" here in NJ. 
