Sandcastle Canine Pool Party September 9th

Sandcastle Water Park is hosting The Ultimate Canine Pool Party on Sept. 9, in which 300 dogs will be admitted. The larger dogs will have a chance to swim in the wave pool (sans waves) and those under 35 pounds will get their own smaller kiddie pool. Other festivities include a canine [...]

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Dog Park Etiquette and Perils

I love my local off-leash dog park! Unfortunately, some dogs and their handlers make my visits less than ideal.
In today’s mail, the September issue of The Whole Dog Journal arrived. It has an exceptional article about off-leash dog parks. It is subtitled: Rules of Dog-Park Etiquette and Deportment for Dogs and their Handlers.
It details many [...]

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“Dog Night” at PNC Park on August 29th

The Pittsburgh Pirates have joined a growing list of Major League Baseball teams sponsoring a “Dog Night.”
Your dog is welcome (one dog per person) at PNC Park on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.
Watch the Pirates play the Cubs with your WHOLE family. Plenty of “pup-friendly” pre-game activities are planned as well… [...]

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PA Turnpike Plazas May Get Dog Walking Trails

By Joe Grata – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has signed a 30-year deal with HMSHost Corp. to redevelop travel plazas in exchange for operating, maintaining and making over $100 million worth of improvements at the facilities.
The state-of-the-art plazas are to include Internet access for wireless laptop computers, food [...]

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Murrysville park to have diverse appeal (including dog park)

By Laurie Bailey – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – The Murrysville Parks and Recreation Department unveiled an initial master plan last week for a park slated to fit the needs of all.     

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Dog park progress slow-going

By Kathryn Sheranko – Cranberry Journal Staff Writer – For canine owners in Cranberry, fundraising is no walk in the park.
But township residents involved in planning the proposed dog park are nothing if not enthusiastic.
The recently-formed Cranberry Citizens for a Dog Park launched a campaign just before Memorial Day soliciting area businesses and community organizations [...]

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Sto-Rox Middle School bans dogs

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – A problem with dog owners has prompted the principal at Sto-Rox Middle School on Ewing Road to erect signs banning dogs from school grounds.
Principal Janell Logue-Belden said this week that she was getting the signs for health and safety reasons after nine months of recurring incidents which left "a [...]

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Support grows for Cranberry dog park

By Lara Brenckle – Tribune-Review – The idea of a park for pooches in Cranberry sounds just peachy to Tiffany Jucha.
"It's good socialization," said Jucha, of Fombell, Beaver County, who owns a 1-year-old German shepherd. "It's just like your kids, you socialized them at that park, now you can do it for your dog. It [...]

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A dog’s life has its better moments: A day in the park mixing with peers perks up pups

By Margaret Smykla – Tri-State Sports and News Service for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – It’s all about the dogs at the fenced-in Allegheny County leash-free dog park in South Park.
“This must be what doggie heaven is like,” said Joanne Hahey, of Bethel Park, as she brought Czar, a boxer, to the roughly acre-sized canine paradise [...]

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Dog owners gather to discuss park for their pets

 By Karen Kane – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Cranberry Community Park is going to the dogs.And that’s a good thing, say two dozen people who gathered Wednesday to discuss the township’s first dog-dedicated public playground.  

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Cranberry dog park plan in the works

By Joan Greene – Tribune-Review -  Cranberry officials are looking for feedback on a dog park proposed at Cranberry Community Park. “Dog parks are becoming a national trend,” said Mike Diehl, parks and recreation director. “We’ve had interest from residents for the last few years. We definitely want to built it; hopefully it will be [...]

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San Franciscan dogs unleashed.

By Chelsea Deweese, The Wall Street Journal — SAN FRANCISCO — An hour into a public meeting this summer in Golden Gate Park, a group of about 40 residents grew restless. When the moderator asked for comments, the room erupted, with some people heatedly calling each other “militants” and “zealots.” One woman declared compromise impossible.
The [...]

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Off-leash in Frick Park.

Thomas C. Mills, M.D. : A Frick Park for everyone (canines, too) With mutual respect, there’s no need for dog wars in our city parks — The question of how groups of park users interact in Frick Park has been in the news lately. In particular, bikers and walkers are said to object to the [...]

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Aggressive North Park dogs bite.

By Linda Wilson Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — A doctor who was hurt intervening in a dogfight in North Park has begun receiving rabies shots after the owner of the dogs that injured him gave a phony name and vanished.
Arthur Nussbaum of McCandless, a physician at UPMC Passavant, was bitten on the hand and bloodied Sunday [...]

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Cleaning-up pet waste.

High tech products focus on pet waste – By Linda Wilson Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — When a dog’s gotta go, it’s gotta go. And like it or not, you’re expected to clean up after your pooch. It’s the right thing to do, the sanitary thing to do and, in most municipalities, the legal thing to do.
Entrepreneurs [...]

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Cranberry Puppy Plunge

Taking the plunge — Cranberry, Butler host pool parties for canines; paws-ibly the best way to serve a hot dog – By Karen Kane – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Cranberry’s first post-season pool party brought them out in packs last weekend.    

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West Neighborhoods: Beaver County dogs have their day

Pittsburgh Post-Gatette – Friday, August 12, 2005 — Dogs will have a place to run free after the Beaver County commissioners yesterday authorized spending $31,300 to create a no-leash dog area in Brady’s Run Park in Brighton.

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Leash-free area an instant hit

For dogs and dog lovers, Allegheny County’s new leash-free dog park is almost heaven.
All dogs large and small run free and frolic in a large area that is surrounded by a very high, very sturdy chain link fence.
On a recent Friday, from 6 to 8 p.m., I saw at least 60 dogs at a time [...]

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