I hope you let your landlord know you have a pitbull. Most homeowner’s insurance won’t insure, and if something did happen, you’d be in an interesting situation both by the victim and the landlord if you didn’t disclose.

You have to understand, that while you’re familiar with your dogs behavior/friendliness, no one knows your dog, and especially if it’s a pitbull (which arguably gets a bad rap in press), even more the reason why neighbors would have some concerns about not leashing. Some people who don’t have pets and have no interest in a pet perhaps don’t like getting licked by a pet, less getting bitten by one…. in as much I’m sure some people without kids would be annoyed by a screaming/crying kid who’s parents decided to put in business/first class on a red-eye flight or in a high end restaurant.

Though I don’t dislike dogs, frankly, I get agitated at owners of big dogs that don’t keep dogs on a leash in a park near around kids, especially if they let them run into sandboxes and start popping/peeing all over the place.

My second pet peeve are folks that never pick up after the dog. A year ago, one of my the folks down the street kept letting his dog off the lease and he kept pooping on my driveway. I know it was his dog, because I kept seem them same dog come over and poop all over the driveway. I told him several times that I didn’t appreciate cleaning up after his dogs mess and to do something about it, especially since the HOA rules were no unleashed pets in areas. Hey, I know HOA’s stink. But if you don’t like the rules, move out to an area where there isn’t that rule. Anyway, neighbor did squat for a few months even though I repeated asked him to cleanup, knowing it was his dog…So the day my kid stepped in on poop, I had it…For about a month, rather than scooping and dumping in my trash can, I ended up scooping and chucking on his driveway. Problem solved. Inevitably, the moved out for other reasons (financial I’m guessing).

Anyway, if you want to let your dog roam around freely, there are some dog only parks. I think there is a one on Torrey Hills, behind the Vons, for instance for folks that go there know obviously pets are not going to be leashed.