[Vision2020] Parks and Dogs

[lfalen]

In Genesee as long as they are under control it is fine. That can be verbal control. Dogs runing loose or not under control(verbal or otherwise) are subject to being impounded, provided they can  be caught.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:04:07 -0700
To: Moscow Vision 2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Parks and Dogs

> Thoughts, V-Peeps?
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
> 
> - Unknown
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Brett Haverstick <bhaverstick at yahoo.com>
> > Date: April 14, 2012 8:49:00 PDT
> > To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> > Subject: Fw: parks and dogs
> > Reply-To: Brett Haverstick <bhaverstick at yahoo.com>
> > 
> 
> > Do me a favor Tom and share this with the 20/20 crowd. I'm curious to know if others have similar concerns. Thanks.
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded Message -----
> > From: Brett Haverstick <bhaverstick at yahoo.com>
> > To: "nchaney at ci.moscow.id.us" <nchaney at ci.moscow.id.us> 
> > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 8:46 AM
> > Subject: parks and dogs
> > 
> > Nancy,
> > 
> > I wanted to share with you an experience I just had this morning while playing ball with my dog. After going to the Safeway in town, I then headed to the big park just off Mt. View Road--a few blocks from the Safeway. This is a favorite place for Akadia to play, as he is an 80lb black lab who needs to be able to run freely to get the exercise he needs. Shockingly we were approached by a city employee and told that I had to leash the dog. She told me I can play ball at the dog park.
> > 
> > This is very upsetting as I have been in that park dozens and dozens of times to play ball with my dog. I have witnessed dozens and dozens of other people using the same park to exercise their dog off-leash. The dog park is a tiny fenced in area overcrowded with dogs and people and I refuse to take my dog there. Where can I take my dog on a Saturday morning at 8am to play ball? Is there a park in this town where dogs can be off-leash? I have been chased out of East City Park and now I have been chased out of the big ball park on Mt. View. 
> > 
> > It appears to me that the city and the parks and recreation department are doing a poor job in providing places for tax-paying citizens and dog-loving people a place to take their pets to get exercise and enjoy their parks. Please get back to me when you have the chance.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > 
> > Brett
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