How to Start a Dog Park

If you are interested in starting a dog park the best place to start is by calling the city parks office and inquire whether there is already interest expressed in a dog park, express your own, and feel out the city's attitude towards starting a dog park.

If there is not a group already established to lobby for a local dog park, start one! Approach local dog owners about starting a dog park and give them a contact point rather than just an "I'll call ya and we'll talk about it". Start a Yahoo group or Google Group (so when you send one message it goes out to everyone) and you can build membership and make plans to start a dog park that way. You can just print up business cards to give to dog owners you meet on walks and at events.

If you can help that yahoo group grow for a few weeks and months you'll eventually get people with city council ties and people who can really get stuff done. Additionally, as the group snowballs and you are ready to start a dog park you'll have plenty of people to sign a petition or to run a fundraiser when the time comes.

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