Dog park equipment in your off-leash area?

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Permalink Reply by Holly Tjaden on April 15, 2010 at 9:38pm

I'd kill for this, for pre-agility work, at the Lake Padden dog park or any other dog park in the Bellingham, WA area.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Max on April 19, 2010 at 7:46pm

The head park planner at Bellingham Parks is Jonathan Schilk. He is aware of the product, but unless he gets some requests from the community, it won't be high on his radar screen. They have some substantial capital construction budgets, so equipment just needs to be made a priority for him.
Don't know if he is a dog person however.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Max on April 19, 2010 at 7:57pm

I didn't realize how old that original post was.
Since we started business as Dog-ON-It-Parks in 2008, we have shipped equipment to 19 states, Canada and Guam, and have a network of over 30 dealers.

All it takes is some grassroots effforts to show off-leash dog park managerers that a dog park represents the greatest opportunities for outdoor recreation, especially for the low cost of developing a dog park, of all the oportunities he can offer.

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Permalink Reply by Zach Thomas on February 7, 2011 at 8:26am

I have 3 dogs, one of which has no interest in agility equipment at all, being 13 years old.  The other 2 dogs would do well to have more equipment.  I typically go to Willis Tucker Dog Park, near Snohomish, WA and when the opened up a new section, it had equipment in it, but it didn't take long for some of it to get broken, and was all quickly removed.  Since then, some log rounds and hurdles have been put in place, but that is all for agility.

 

On another note, I understand that in your description, you are trying to say that your equipment is tough, and will stand up to a lot of abuse and misuse.  I find it somewhat offensive though that you bring pit bulls specifically into this.  One of my dogs is a rescued Pit Bull mix, and since I have had him, I have done more research on pits.  Pit bulls themselves were bred to be friendly to people.  They are also very loyal dogs, and like to make their owners happy.  From the many times I have been at off leash dog parks, I rarely see pit bulls, and of those, none of them have ever been angry.  My fiance is in the vet field at an emergency hospital, and she has said that between a pit bull and a german shepard, she will muzzle a german shepard in most cases and almost never muzzle a pit bull.

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