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Originally Posted by chrisinva
Consider location of dog park to your new home. You meet a lot of great people there, they're helpful in all matters of living in TV & the dogs have a great time running. Consider a Courtyard Villa or Veranda model for ease of letting your dog outside for relief & not losing her. We have a designer home & a dog & now strongly wish we had the fenced yard benefit in a C Villa or Veranda. Agree with other poster - rent for 3- 4 months (allow one month for mortgage processing & closing) to find the best place for you. Good luck & welcome to a great place to live.
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A dog park is a good point. I’ve been taking my dogs to a nearly-hidden dog park just off Belle Meade, not far from the Mulberry Recreation Center. If you have a golf cart, you can park there. If you have a car, then park at the mail boxes on Belle Meade or the driveway right next to them, then walk into the woods surrounding a big fenced electrical station. You won’t see the dog park from Belle Meade. There is no sign. The woods is Oaks and cedars with a couple sand roads big enough for golf carts. It’s a great place to walk and meet people and dogs. It’s perfectly safe, and it’s cool and shady. I call it “Squirrel World” because the dogs love chasing the squirrels, though they never catch one. In the center of the woods is an electrical station. Yesterday I saw two bald eagles perched on tall electric poles. At the north end of the forest are two fenced off-leash dog runs, one for dogs the size of yours or smaller and one for big dogs. It has a brand new beautiful pavilion with benches to give us shade. It’s opening today!
I live a ten minute drive by car from this dog park. You might enjoy a place closer to it. There are several other dog parks, too. My dogs crave running for a couple miles a day. They are trained and good off-leash.