Hello again everybody!
My fiancee and I took our 3 dogs to a Dog Park in Alexandria yesterday. Anyone ever heard of these things before? I hadn't. For those who haven't, it's just a little corner of a public park that has a 6' fenced in area for people to bring their dogs to socialize them and let them off the leash. This one had a bunch of tennis balls for them to play with. It also had little baggie dispensers for cleanup. The dogs all absolutely loved it and it's good for them! Good exercise, good socialization and just plain fun to watch. Good people socialization too
The only problem is that is way up there and you have to deal with the beltway, etc. We feel very strongly that we should have something like that much closer and even toyed with the idea of starting one.
We had packed some food for later, so on the way back down we stopped at White Plains Regional Park in Waldorf. How surprised we were to find a bigger and better one in that very park, so the dogs got a double treat that day! They even had a smaller, but ample, area for small and/or shy dogs. Still, we would love to see something like that in Chancellor's Run or Leonardtown.
The only bad thing I can see coming out of it is someone bringing in a diseased dog or something an otherwise irresponsible pet owner would expose other peoples' pets to.
The legalities are easy enough to work out. The county or sponsor assumes no liability for people or dogs and set reasonable ground rules.
Should we start a petition? Anybody done anything like this before? I would love to get the ball rolling.
My fiancee and I took our 3 dogs to a Dog Park in Alexandria yesterday. Anyone ever heard of these things before? I hadn't. For those who haven't, it's just a little corner of a public park that has a 6' fenced in area for people to bring their dogs to socialize them and let them off the leash. This one had a bunch of tennis balls for them to play with. It also had little baggie dispensers for cleanup. The dogs all absolutely loved it and it's good for them! Good exercise, good socialization and just plain fun to watch. Good people socialization too
The only problem is that is way up there and you have to deal with the beltway, etc. We feel very strongly that we should have something like that much closer and even toyed with the idea of starting one.
We had packed some food for later, so on the way back down we stopped at White Plains Regional Park in Waldorf. How surprised we were to find a bigger and better one in that very park, so the dogs got a double treat that day! They even had a smaller, but ample, area for small and/or shy dogs. Still, we would love to see something like that in Chancellor's Run or Leonardtown.
The only bad thing I can see coming out of it is someone bringing in a diseased dog or something an otherwise irresponsible pet owner would expose other peoples' pets to.
The legalities are easy enough to work out. The county or sponsor assumes no liability for people or dogs and set reasonable ground rules.
Should we start a petition? Anybody done anything like this before? I would love to get the ball rolling.