Major Menino celebrated yesterday the opening of the Joe Wex Dog Recreation Space, the new 14,000 square foot dog park located on Washington St. The opening was crowded with people and many gorgeous dogs. We attended the event with some other volunteers of the Animal Rescue League and we walked there with some adoptable, and recently adopted (like the maltese Pootsie), dogs from the shelter.

As you can see in the video below, all the dogs seemed to have a really great time!

The construction of this fenced-in dog park has been possible thanks to the numerous private contributions of several dog owners who live in Boston, the ARL, and even some private businesses. Dog owners and businesses also contributed by sponsoring bricks and pavers like the ones pictured below.

You can click here to see more pictures of the event.

Post a comment below to let us know what do you think of this amazing dog park!

We hope to see you for the final, but most important, step in the founding of Boston’s first Dog Recreation Space, the Joe Wex Dog Recreation Space (Peters Park).

The Grand Unleashing is this Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Bring your neighbors and friends along too as celebrations will continue at the Red Fez and there will be a few dogs from the Animal Rescue League, one of the sponsors of the park too.

The opening of this dog park is an important milestone achieved by the Friends of Peters Park. Thanks to the perseverance of this amazing group of dog owners, the city of Boston finally has its very first official dog park. In fact, other than Carleton Court Dog Park, in the South End, the city has not had an official fenced-in dog park. We hope that this is just the first step in order to get more dog parks’ projects approved in the city.

Here are some pics of Giotto and Tullia, two wonderful Italian Spinones owned by Judy Sue. They are pictured in front of Peters Park with their lovely dog walker, Steve.

Come celebrate with us!

Here are some pictures from the All Dogs meetup last Sunday, organized by Liz and Bubba (pictured above) at Amory Playground, the great park we’ve talked about before.

Amory Playground is a very big park where dogs can run off-leash during the early morning. The park is located at 45 Amory St. in Brookline, MA.
Every dog breed is very welcome to join the playgroups: dog owners, click here to join to this amazing meetup! Every weekend, you and your dog will have the opportunity to spend a couple of hours with other very nice dogs and dog owners coming from Boston and around.

The event was a lot of fun: it was beautiful and sunny out, and around 15-20 dogs of many different breeds attended. Write in the comments section if you attended and let us know what you thought of the gorgeous day at Amory Park.

Joe Wex Dog Recreation Space (Peters Park) - the first official dog park in Boston - is almost ready! The dedication and opening with Mayor Menino is scheduled for 3:30 – 4:30 on Sunday November 4th.
Pictured below, Coco is exploring the small dogs park. In fact, there will be a bigger park for big dogs and a separate section for small dogs.

The park is totally privately funded. Friends of Peters Park, the group of dog owners sponsoring the park, collected $363,000 in order to build the new recreational area. This is a great achievement, as they collected $13,000 more than their original goal.

Dog owners can now use a fenced-in area beside the new park.
But mark these dates.
Starting on October 15th, a portion of the new park can be used as a temporary space to allow for final work to be completed on the rest of Peters Park.
On October 29th, the new park will be closed so that final work can be completed prior to the Grand Unleashing on November 4th. During this time, dogs will not have a temporary park to use.

Here are some photos of the Nunziato Off-Leash Recreational Area in Somerville, MA, and of park users enjoying the new surface last December.

The park is located between Putnam & Summer St, and it is fenced-in.

Update!!!  Photos in this blog courtesy of Michele Biscoe, Chairperson of the Somerville Dog Owners Group.  View all of her pictures!

The grounds of Carleton Dog Court, the fenced-in dog park in the South End, have just been repainted.
Here are some pics we took this afternoon. The first dog above is Ceder, a young Hungarian Rizsla. Ceder usually comes to the park with his “sister” Jillie, the beautiful Papillon pictured below, and their parents John and Marcia. Marcia owns The Pooch Palace, a dog hotel and dog care service located in Watertown, MA. And, of course, Jillie is the princess of the palace, and Ceder is the count, as Marcia referred.

The beautiful pugs pictured below are Francesca and Sofia, two preppy dogs who live in the Leather District. Sofia is too young to play with other dogs but she can’t wait to join them in the park!

And below there are lot of other beautiful dogs that were at the park today. The two gorgeous Australian Labradoodles are Maya (black) and Otis (white).