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We really love our dog parks. But you've just got to be smart about them and use common sense. |
OMG, Kaji, you naughty boy! LOL. Those videos were so adorable. Here's some of Jackson's dog park fun times... This video was from 2009, so he was barely a year old. |
Furgie loves the dog park! We only go to parks with the small dog area. She is about 5 1/2 pounds, 1 year now. She was probably about 4 pounds when she started going. It can be nerve wracking, as the other dog mom's said, definitly keep an eye on her at all times! Clean up after you dog when they poop, and bring water. The video on the thread is a great examle of how they play...Furgie gets ran over from time to time playing kind of rough, but she loves it! If her tail is wagging, she is having fun! She did the puppy class at petsmart, that was good. She also goes to doggy daycare, which I think is what has given her alot of confidence at the dog park. Good luck! |
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I agree - give it a try only if there is a separate area for small dogs. Our dog parks here state the dog has to be at least 6 months old before coming in. I've taken Lucy a couple of times - even in the 'small dog' park; she was the smallest one there and not loving it. Some dogs do though! As another poster said - puppy classes are a great place to start and to learn to socialize. |
Thanks everyone! The advice helps a lot. It looks like JoeJoe and i will be attending our first puppy social today. It's 15 dollars per social but comes with wine cheese and crackers for mommy and some puppy treats for my little guy. All the dogs there will be 10-18 weeks and all small breed with at lease 2 shots so that makes me feel at least a little bit more comfortable. :D Hopefully it all works out and i might sign up JoeJoe for a full membership there and also maybe some day classes. I am also hoping to bring him to the dog park when he's bigger (around 6 months sounds perfect) but we definitely will start with these small play dates for now. The videos you all posted looked like so much fun and i think JoeJoe will just Love it.:D |
We LOVE going to the dog park. There is one down the street from where I live that has 3 seperate sections. One for dogs under 30lbs i believe, another for 30 to 50lbs and another for 50lbs and over. The one for the smaller dogs usually i never see any 30lb dogs in there. Occasionally someone wont follow the rules and bring their big dog in there but we just will turn around and leave if that happens. Usually there is only really small dogs in there but Dolce is still always the smallest one there! Shes only 3.6lbs at 10months! She loves it there though, she loves to race around the outside of the fence until shes pooped! LOL I didnt take her there until she had all of her shots done, i think she was 6 months. I always keep an eye on her when we are there though, because she is so little i worry. Most of the time the dogs there are playful but not rough. Occasionally you will get a brat in there that thinks they can bark and push and shove all the other dogs around and I just pick Dolce up and keep her on my lap hoping the dog owner will get the picture and leave with his/her dog. Usually that does the trick and then Dolce can go back to playing with her friends LOL. One thing I like to do when we are there is get the names and phone numbers of owners with small dogs that Dolce has fun playing with. That way we can call or text each other when we are going to the park and have a kind of meetup so we know there will at least be one other friend their for our furbabies. Dolce has met lots of other Yorkies at the dog park and its so funny that she knows which dogs are yorkies. She will go right up to them and follow them around the whole time. It's like she's saying "Hey! Hey! I know you! You look like me! Wanna play? wanna play? huh, huh, huh??? I like you cuz u look like me!" She can spot em out of a crowd! Its amazing! She doesnt care too much for larger dogs, but if they irritate her (cuz large dogs for some reason like to follow her around and smell her ALL the time and don't leave her alone) she will get up in their face and try and push em around to tell em to buzz off! hahaha they just look at her all confused. I will video tape her next time we are there so you guys can see just what I'm talking about. |
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