Would you be willing to pay for a dog park with indoor/outdoor facilities?
Other than the Bark Yard in Buffalo there are no official dog parks in the area and unfortunately once the weather gets bad that place turns into a mud pit. If you have a big dog with longer fur that can be a mess. Would a place with a pool be more interesting or you?
Yes and yes.
Depends on what was offered and price. Also if I’m paying for it I want someone to pick up the shit for me.
Naw my dogs don’t play nice. One’s six pounds with a massive Napolean complex and the other’s a bitch off the streets that doesn’t take any shit. (Maltese & rescued stray)
There is a new park opening up in amherst in sept
I would probbaly not pay…
My dog gets to wander the neighborhood on occasion (as in I forgot to let her in)
Would your facility offer info/training along the lines of ‘dogs are not people’, or would that cut into the target demographic?
I don’t think the majority of people would pay for a park.(outside of taxes) Don’t get me wrong, it would be great in the winter and I would probably take my dog there a couple times when the weather is really shitty. But I probably wouldn’t go there regularly if I had to pay for it.
This is also just an outdoor park. I am talking about indoor and outdoor. Agility training equipment would be there too. Not talking about a field with fencing. And fry there would be a puppy penalty box.
My female pitbull is super well behaved but if an ankle biter snapped at her it would be bad. I’m a no.
has she ever been to a dog park? There are seperate sides for little dogs. I know a lot of people with pittys and none of them are bad dogs. In fact my dog’s trainer has a pitt trained for security but is also a fantastic dog.
I take my pit to the dog park all the time. She has her moments with other dogs, but little scuffles are to be expected. Even really well behaved dogs will get antagonized to the point of reacting by another pooch.
Negative, if my dog need exercise I can play with him in my yard.
My dogs dislike going outside when it’s raining/snowing/windy/not 75 and sunny.
I’d probabally take George there once or twice and check it out but I think that would be about it. Unless it was littered with little pieces of ass walking their dogs in skin tight stretch pants or something, then I’d go often. Having a completly fenced in bark yard is great, all I have to do is open the door and not worry about anything. A pond or something for him top swim in would be cool too, but, I tried to get him to swim once and he almost drown. Yes, I have a fucking water rescue dog that can’t swim
lol. Are you sure he wasn’t just panicing? It takes some time to train dogs to be comfortable with water that aren’t already from the start. My dog was terrified at first but very slowly getting her used to it resulted in me having to keep extra towels in my truck because everytime she sees water, she jumps into it.
I used to frequent dog parks all the time. My dog started picking up bad habits from some of the meaner dogs. Now I just take him to play with friends’ dogs. He’s much better in situations with small groups of dogs that he knows.
In buffalo, there are a few free options which are going to hurt you. The new place in amherst, the place downtown, the island in N. Tonowanda off Niagara Falls blvd, etc…
The place in amherst doesn’t look like its happening anytime soon. The island isn’t technically a dog park so there reall only is one right now. I have been tossing around the idea of making a multi use facility that would have a membership and would keep out the undesirable element. Woudln’t be a stiff fee and there would be a jogging track inside as well as training classes and stuff. Still have to work out a plan but I was just gauging interest.
I honestly think that if there was another dog there swimming in the water George would have used his one flickering last brain cell and figured it out. There was a ledge in the pond similar to going from the shallow end of the pool into the deep end, he would fetch the stick, but only if it haden’t crossed the line into the deeper water. One time he leaned a bit too far and went under water as it was deeper. Luckily I was standing on the shore and he still had his harness on with the leash attached so I could pull him back above water. Good thing I didn’t just toss him in the pond. This makes about as much sense in my mind as having a Dalmation that hates firetrucks or a blind seeing eye dog.
Sounds like a really great idea! Build it in Rochester 
You would be better off doing a high-end boarding facility/day care. One where the dogs aren’t just caged the whole day, where they get to hang out and play with each other and have a lot of attention paid to them.
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My lab has gotten a handful of dogs (that wouldn’t even go in ankle deep) to swim. Our friends have a female boxer and my lab Chip was the one who got her into swimming. Now they take her to the beach and everyone around asks how the hell they got their boxer to start swimming. Chip also got an american bulldog mix over that tonowanda island(a few year back) to get in and swim.
The best way to get them into swimming is to get them around another dog who loves it. They all get super jealous when Chip is fetching tennis balls 30-40 yards out that eventually they just hop in and do it.