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The Dispatch wrote
Smaller, lesser-known park might host dogs
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
BY MARK FERENCHIK
Columbus wants to create a place for pooches just north of Downtown.
The city is proposing a fenced-in dog park for Wheeler Park, north of I-670 and near Harrison West and Victorian Village. It’s also just west of Goodale Park, a place where people often take their dogs to run them, on and off the leash.
Some Goodale Park patrons don’t mind Rover running loose.
Others do, so therefore the Wheeler Park proposal.
City officials will talk about the plan at 7 p.m. next Tuesday at the Goodale Park shelter.
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I wish they could create a few fenced in areas based on varying sizes, so my dog doesn’t get eaten by the big dogs.
Yay fenced-in dog park! My puppy needs to run but she’s not trained well enough to be off-leash (we’ve had her four months and she still ignores “come” the moment we step outside the house). I’m sick of driving to Gahanna so that she can stretch her legs.
Yeah we go to Big Walnut Dog Park to let our dog run crazy. It’d sure be nice if we could just walk over to Goodale to do that though.
Moose is still going to be romping around Goodale Park until the police tell me otherwise. One of the proposals from the meeting I went to on Oct 18 is both a dog park at Goodale and behind Giant Eagle. If they start enforcing “on leash” at Goodale, Moose is going to get walked to City Hall every night and lay a nice pile right in the middle of the sidewalk.
That’s great! Maybe Tank will join Moose down @ City Hall.
You should also spread dog poop all over the porches of all the people who don’t want your dog in Schiller Park. That’ll teach em a lesson!
There is no leash law, there’s nothing to enforce.
p.s. The law is control or leash. The parks and rec department has the ability to pass a leash rule…upon completion of all 3 of the large city dog parks…which will never happen because the funds ran out after the first one and the head of the push for it was removed from office. That rule, btw, means that the equivalent of a park ranger (not a cop) can send you a mean letter if you have your dog off leash…if it happens again? They send you a meaner one.
That’s it…that’s all…
Unless Scout is allowed on the bus, I’m not going to trek to a lot behind the Giant Eagle. Watching my dog play in Schiller Park is one of the great joys of life in German Village.
You’ll not be losing that ever, don’t worry. BTW, who’s Scout??? I know a Scout who’s a little dog, like a Pekinese maybe at Schiller…
The irony of the “we don’t want dogs in Goodale Park” is not lost on me. I was working with a group out in OTE for one of the parks out there, and the group was trying desperately to make the park more “dog friendly”. They felt that dog walkers and people outside in the park made it a less desirable place for activities like prostution and dealing– this group desperately wanted people walking their dogs night and day in that park.
I understand that the garden groups want their work respected, but I have a huge issue with the idea that our urban parks should be admired from afar. These are dynamic community gathering places… much needed open space.
The downtown dog park troubles me as well… the size is incredibly small. Two dogs are going to be fighting over the same blade of grass there. We want new residents to invest downtown, move to the city, but then refuse to provide the same amenities that everyone else has. People in the metro downtown areas need dog parks MORE than the people in the suburban areas. We don’t have yards!
Just keep in mind there is a huge difference between a leash and under control. Kinda hard to be in control of your dog when your talking to people and your dog is 100 yards away.
People have a funny interpretation of what it means to be in control of their dog. Especially when their dog is about to rip my dog apart and I have to hear “oh don’t worry, he likes small dogs”….yeah…to eat!
People have a funny interpretation of what it means to be in control of their dog. Especially when their dog is about to rip my dog apart and I have to hear “oh don’t worry, he likes small dogs”….yeah…to eat!
Trust me, you’re preaching to the choir here as a Shih Tzu owner (although he usually is the one picking fights). Schiller is pretty self regulating though, always has been, and bad dogs and bad dog owners are told to just go away LOL!
I read in the article that Orange Barrel Media is putting in some cash for the dog park downtown. Be cool if they did a wallscape for it, a gigantic bone lodged in the side of a building or something.
Maybe Goodale has gotten better but we are not taking our chances. Bring on the little dog parks!
Maybe Goodale has gotten better but we are not taking our chances. Bring on the little dog parks!
Honestly rave, with my previous shih tzu I had issues in Goodale as well for the year I was in the Short North. WAY more aggressive dogs than Schiller. Come see me, Brewmaster, Heysquare, and the rest of the good guys over in GV in the mornings :)
p.s. all 3 of us have small dogs too, btw…but no one EVER would mess with em :)
Cool thanks for the invite! If we’re in your neck of the woods we’ll search you out.
You’ll not be losing that ever, don’t worry. BTW, who’s Scout??? I know a Scout who’s a little dog, like a Pekinese maybe at Schiller…
Scout is a 16 lb. (medium for Schiller where most dogs are tiny or giant) mutt (maybe poodle/scnhauzer mix?) Black/grey/white.
You’ll not be losing that ever, don’t worry. BTW, who’s Scout??? I know a Scout who’s a little dog, like a Pekinese maybe at Schiller…
Scout is a 16 lb. (medium for Schiller where most dogs are tiny or giant) mutt (maybe poodle/scnhauzer mix?) Black/grey/white.
hm, not sure…anyways, look for me and Bugs :)
I’ll be the long haired homeless looking guy, probably wearing a doo-rag, with a black and white shih tzu named Bugsy and torn jeans. LOL!
p.s. all 3 of us have small dogs too, btw…but no one EVER would mess with em :)
Yea… it’s the attack of the Muppets. Bugs’ll bite ‘em in the kneecaps, Charlie’ll run ‘em over, and my Charlie will… watch. LOL
core I’m going to get a leash for my cat just to see if he can kick you shih tzu’s arse!