(I am posting here since this seems to be the most active group and I
could not find another one more suitable)

We are organizing to open the first off-leash recreation area (dogpark)
here in Grand Prairie. We have five flat acres with no trees. Since
this is truly virgin territory, your comments on how it should be
designed would be very helpful. Plus, what you have seen that is
really great. To get you started, here are some questions:

How do you feel about artifical turf, like they use on soccer fields?
Have you ever been to a dogpark that has such a surface and how was it
holding up.

How should our 5 acres be divided up, other than an area for big dogs
and an area for little dogs?

Should the areas be square/rectangular or oval/round or L-Shaped, or
?????

Should there be a walkway around the park inside the fence?

Until we can grow natural shade, what do you prefer?

Should the area be left flat or graded into different levels?

What is the one thing that you have seen in a dogpark that really
impressed you?

Deb from Texas wrote:
(I am posting here since this seems to be the most active group and I
could not find another one more suitable)

We are organizing to open the first off-leash recreation area
(dogpark)
here in Grand Prairie. We have five flat acres with no trees. Since
this is truly virgin territory, your comments on how it should be
designed would be very helpful. Plus, what you have seen that is
really great. To get you started, here are some questions:

How do you feel about artifical turf, like they use on soccer fields?
Have you ever been to a dogpark that has such a surface and how was
it
holding up.

How should our 5 acres be divided up, other than an area for big dogs
and an area for little dogs?

Should the areas be square/rectangular or oval/round or L-Shaped, or
?????

Should there be a walkway around the park inside the fence?

Until we can grow natural shade, what do you prefer?

Should the area be left flat or graded into different levels?

What is the one thing that you have seen in a dogpark that really
impressed you?

For some great dog park advocacy reading, you should definitely visit
www.thebark.com. Their community page discusses dog parks in depth,
and you should find it to be very helpful as you plan the ideal place
for Grand Prairie dogs.

"Deb from Texas" wrote in
oups.com:

(I am posting here since this seems to be the most active group and I
could not find another one more suitable)

While I have no info to offer you, I can suggest that you also post this in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior. It gets a lot more traffic.

--
Marcel and Moogli

Marcel Beaudoin said in rec.pets.dogs.breeds:

While I have no info to offer you, I can suggest that you
also post this in rec.pets.dogs.behavior. It gets a lot
more traffic.

Rpd.breeds is plenty active, probably moreso than .behavior if
you take the signal to noise ratio into account.

The subject is actually more appropriate to rpd.activities -
these groups won't get any busier if everyone starts posting
everything to rpd.behavior.

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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

Hello, ck out this website! It is a dog park that I frequent with my dog
and might help you. http://caninerecreationpark.tripod.com/


"Deb from Texas" wrote in message
oups.com...
(I am posting here since this seems to be the most active group and I
could not find another one more suitable)

We are organizing to open the first off-leash recreation area (dogpark)
here in Grand Prairie. We have five flat acres with no trees. Since
this is truly virgin territory, your comments on how it should be
designed would be very helpful. Plus, what you have seen that is
really great. To get you started, here are some questions:

How do you feel about artifical turf, like they use on soccer fields?
Have you ever been to a dogpark that has such a surface and how was it
holding up.

How should our 5 acres be divided up, other than an area for big dogs
and an area for little dogs?

Should the areas be square/rectangular or oval/round or L-Shaped, or
?????

Should there be a walkway around the park inside the fence?

Until we can grow natural shade, what do you prefer?

Should the area be left flat or graded into different levels?

What is the one thing that you have seen in a dogpark that really
impressed you?

Rocky wrote in
:

Marcel Beaudoin said in rec.pets.dogs.breeds:

While I have no info to offer you, I can suggest that you
also post this in rec.pets.dogs.behavior. It gets a lot
more traffic.

Rpd.breeds is plenty active, probably moreso than .behavior if
you take the signal to noise ratio into account.

The subject is actually more appropriate to rpd.activities -
these groups won't get any busier if everyone starts posting
everything to rpd.behavior.

I just suggested rpdb because I seem to remember that one of the regs that
only inhabits there recently (year or two) helped her (town/city??) get a
dog park set up.


--
Marcel and Moogli