Thank you for the advice. Now we have a few options to think about. First off I think we will put a call in to our DE. One very frustrating point about this issue is the fact that the person/people complaining belongs to a unit that had dogs (a series of three) with them, at the base, spanning 10 years or more. None of these dogs were kept on a leash and one of them used to terrify the scouts and parents, myself included! I'm afraid it just boils down to plolitics sometimes. Different rules for different units. Unfortunately, the more successful our unit becomes, the more people seem to