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Sep 2014Who’s Dog Friendly and Who’s in the Dog House!
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Sep 2014Posted by WINDOG / in INFORMATION / 2 comments
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May 2014
Sally Hull
Back when I lived in Winnipeg and used the Maple Grove Dog Park a lot, City Councillor Gord Steeves ripped away a huge portion of the park from dog owners. I tried very hard to fight this, and tried to get dog owners to help. What ended up happening is that the woman who at the time was the only member of “Maple Grove Dog Park Association” and didn’t even USE the park (her dog was too aggressive) came out with her little info table, and assured everyone there that I was lying, and that the park would not be taken away. She told them that the city had PROMISED that the dog owners could share the frisbee fields, which was the best part of the park. She also said that agility equipment, a proper watering facility and a porta potty would be given to the dog walkers. Of course, as we know, this was all lies. There is no watering facility, there is no sharing of the fields which are barely ever used, there is no porta potty and no agility equipment. They received $100,000 in grants to get the fields all nice for the Frisbee groups, and dog owners got their park slashed to a third, and a crappy parking place. During the time I tried to fight for the park, my emails to Gord Steeves were met with hostility and rude responses. I sent him photos of the remaining area of the park they had left for dog walkers, with the equipment shed up to roof in flood water. The last response from Gord Steeves was to tell me “if you don’t keep quiet, you will lose the rest of the park.”
Dog Walkers, your voices need to be heard. For many people, walking their dogs at off leash parks is the only exercise they get, and they enjoy it. Make your vote count.
Sally Hull
Traysea
I don’t know where you are you getting your information but I live in Vancouver and dog owners didn’t get a dog friendly mayor and council in the 2008 election. We got vision vancouver who are dog nazi’s and the worse political party this city has ever seen. They have done nothing for dog owners but harass us, illegally ticket us, violate our privacy rights, use our personal information ffor purposes it was not intended such as to persecute us . They have stolen $400,000.00 of taxpayers money that was voted by the taxpayers to go to creating more off leash dog areas and refuse to disclose where this money is. We did that in 2005 though voted for what we were led to believe was a mayor and council that would work with us not against us as that is exactly what they promised but they did nothing in the 3 years they were in power, nothing. they all lie to get our votes then they forget their promises suddenly- good luck though with your election I wish you all the best