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Originally Posted by OBXNana
We live in typical PA suburbia. Our local dog park was closed due to Parvo. Our dogs are immunized, but there is no checking of vaccination records at a dog park. Our one rescue ended up with kennel cough after being in a dog park. I asked the vet how this can happen when she was immunized 8 months earlier. Some dogs it only last for 6 months. It can be a breeding ground for disease.
With that said, we still go to the dog park. We weigh the options and it's good socialization and exercise. We now get the kennel cough every 6 months and keep all the other shots up to date.
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The Villages area's private dog park is Doggie Doo Run Run which is up about 9/10s of a mile from CR101 and the junction of CR466. It is on CR101 near the cell phone tower and the T with CR104. They request that all applicants fill out their information about shots and the like. They require a copy of the vet's certificate. Of course, that does nor insure that the pooch is always current on shots and the like. They can and do remove aggressive dogs but they have been fights and bites on occasion. I am not aware of any dog deaths there unless you mean dogs that get out of the enclosed areas for some reason and are hit by cars. That as far as I know has happened only once in the seven years I have been going there. There is also the occasional dog heat stroke as well as dog heart failure.
They pick up the poop and supply flags which you are supposed to mark where your dog goes. There are people who miss marking the dogs leavings, however, so you do have to be careful walking around the 10 acre or so private dog park.
The people do socialize but it is pretty much by size of dog as the park is separated into areas for dogs of 30 lbs (above and under). There have even been a few romances created there. Of the people type as the dogs have to been neutered and spayed. That does not stop some from trying even if they no longer have the equipment. Probably the same can be said about some of the people.
