Thursday, July 09, 2009
SMALL RUN CLEAN-UP THIS SATURDAY
Please help with a clean-up for the small dog run. Scheduled for July 11th at 11:00am. We will be receiving fresh wood chips!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Your Dog & Stagnant Water, Not a Good Combination
Thank you, PS 9 for alerting the community about Leptosporosis.*
As always, if your dog is acting sick or not its normal self, take him/her to your vet to be checked out.
Most of all, don't bring a potentially unhealthy dog to the run.
Stagnant water no matter where it is in the city (in or outside of the dog run) carries the potential for many diseases.
Do NOT let your dog play in or drink stagnant water or eat mud. Playing in muddy pools carries the potential for danger,
especially in the context of an overly wet summer like the one we currently are encountering.
THE SAME GOES FOR CHILDREN.
If you have been in a muddy area, wash or wipe off your dog's paws (so that it does not lick the paws and then ingest something harmful)
If you see a sick dog in the run, tell the owner about the EXTREME danger of parasites and recommend that they get their dog tested and remove the dog from the run.
After all this rain, this parasite could be in a variety of places that water pools and rats enjoy.
As always, be careful and be responsible.
* Want to read PS9"s email, get on the McCarren Google Group either click on the link on the website or email mcdogrun.org.
As always, if your dog is acting sick or not its normal self, take him/her to your vet to be checked out.
Most of all, don't bring a potentially unhealthy dog to the run.
Stagnant water no matter where it is in the city (in or outside of the dog run) carries the potential for many diseases.
Do NOT let your dog play in or drink stagnant water or eat mud. Playing in muddy pools carries the potential for danger,
especially in the context of an overly wet summer like the one we currently are encountering.
THE SAME GOES FOR CHILDREN.
If you have been in a muddy area, wash or wipe off your dog's paws (so that it does not lick the paws and then ingest something harmful)
If you see a sick dog in the run, tell the owner about the EXTREME danger of parasites and recommend that they get their dog tested and remove the dog from the run.
After all this rain, this parasite could be in a variety of places that water pools and rats enjoy.
As always, be careful and be responsible.
* Want to read PS9"s email, get on the McCarren Google Group either click on the link on the website or email mcdogrun.org.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Dog Run Fundraiser with Baked Goods
Saturday’s fund-raiser was a success! We raised over $700 at the table
and received a $200 commitment to build benches. Leftovers were
donated to the soup kitchen in Greenpoint. We added nearly fifty
members to the e-mail list, and several dog-run users offered to
volunteer at future events—welcome and thank you to all of them!
In previous meetings, dog-run users have expressed their interest in
making the following improvements, many of which we can now work
toward:
* Benches for both runs (approx. $200–$250 for materials), which a
volunteer has offered to build in the next month or so.
* Small Bulletin Board for smaller dog run (approx $100)
* New Water-Drinking Station (approx. $100). This will be a place for
water jugs and drinking bowls and will be relocated to the space where
Dio was impaled. The goal is to help prevent the chips from becoming
so high, thus making it a safer, less jumpable corner.
* A New Water Jug or Two since the person who lent them needs them
back (approx. $100)
* Short Term Solution to the Fence Spikes (approx. $100 to $300),
while a long-term solution is negotiated with the parks department.
* Establishing a rainy-day fund for emergency repairs that we can
continue to build up.
In addition, we might consider making donations to our partners in
keeping the dog run operating:
* The North Brooklyn Open Space Alliance (OSA), whose efforts in
McCarren Park support our own
* NYC Dog, for their ongoing advocacy for dog issues in New York City
and our parks
And THANK YOU to the following donors and volunteers:
* The dog run's best friend forever, Ms. Joan from PS 9...always
willing to support us in every way
* Our coffee-loving friends at Urban Rustic. We loved the donated
coffee and love the cart that makes the best egg sandwiches!
*Our new friends at Must Luv Dogs for the yummy treats. We are very
happy to be partnering with them.
* All the volunteer bakers who put a little love into so many yummy treats.
* The day’s volunteers: Brett, incoming co-dog run czar, for doing
some of the heavy lifting and having such a generous attitude; Angela,
incoming co-dog run czar and force behind Saturday’s successful event,
and her husband, Jeff, for some of the other heavy lifting and having
a rain-contingency plan; Angela's friend who doesn't even have a dog
but baked, greeted, and helped organize the event; Rebecca, for adding
all our new e-mail list subscribers; and Christine, would-be outgoing
dog-run czar and constant dog-run consultant, for all her advice and
know-how.
and received a $200 commitment to build benches. Leftovers were
donated to the soup kitchen in Greenpoint. We added nearly fifty
members to the e-mail list, and several dog-run users offered to
volunteer at future events—welcome and thank you to all of them!
In previous meetings, dog-run users have expressed their interest in
making the following improvements, many of which we can now work
toward:
* Benches for both runs (approx. $200–$250 for materials), which a
volunteer has offered to build in the next month or so.
* Small Bulletin Board for smaller dog run (approx $100)
* New Water-Drinking Station (approx. $100). This will be a place for
water jugs and drinking bowls and will be relocated to the space where
Dio was impaled. The goal is to help prevent the chips from becoming
so high, thus making it a safer, less jumpable corner.
* A New Water Jug or Two since the person who lent them needs them
back (approx. $100)
* Short Term Solution to the Fence Spikes (approx. $100 to $300),
while a long-term solution is negotiated with the parks department.
* Establishing a rainy-day fund for emergency repairs that we can
continue to build up.
In addition, we might consider making donations to our partners in
keeping the dog run operating:
* The North Brooklyn Open Space Alliance (OSA), whose efforts in
McCarren Park support our own
* NYC Dog, for their ongoing advocacy for dog issues in New York City
and our parks
And THANK YOU to the following donors and volunteers:
* The dog run's best friend forever, Ms. Joan from PS 9...always
willing to support us in every way
* Our coffee-loving friends at Urban Rustic. We loved the donated
coffee and love the cart that makes the best egg sandwiches!
*Our new friends at Must Luv Dogs for the yummy treats. We are very
happy to be partnering with them.
* All the volunteer bakers who put a little love into so many yummy treats.
* The day’s volunteers: Brett, incoming co-dog run czar, for doing
some of the heavy lifting and having such a generous attitude; Angela,
incoming co-dog run czar and force behind Saturday’s successful event,
and her husband, Jeff, for some of the other heavy lifting and having
a rain-contingency plan; Angela's friend who doesn't even have a dog
but baked, greeted, and helped organize the event; Rebecca, for adding
all our new e-mail list subscribers; and Christine, would-be outgoing
dog-run czar and constant dog-run consultant, for all her advice and
know-how.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Dog Runs are for Dogs: Keeping Dogs & Kids Safe
Several members have noted and expressed concern about an increase in parents who bring young children into both runs. The Rules of the Runs sign at the gate of the large run states that children must be accompanied by adults. The identical sign that used to hang on the gate of the small run has disappeared...a new one is forthcoming.
In the interest of the safety of children and dogs, I wanted to remind everyone:
-the dog run is designated for dogs and their adult caretakers.
-the dog run is not a petting zoo
-the dog run is not a playground (there is a playground at Driggs & Lorimer)
-the dog run is not a picnic area (there are tables and benches right outside the run).
-many dogs (especially smaller breeds) are afraid of children
-dogs may bite out of fear
-dogs relieve themselves in the run
-the run, therefore, can be a source of parasites like Giardia (to which humans and animals are susceptible)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/Giardiasis/factsht_giardia.htm#transmission
-therefore, a child who plays in the run like it is a sandbox, or who eats while playing in the run might get ill.
If you are a parent who wants to enter a run with your young child, please ask those in the dog run if their dogs are okay with small children before bringing her/him in.
As a small dog owner, I want my dog run to be as safe and healthy an environment as possible (for dogs and humans of all ages). If you are a dog owner who witnesses some behavior that you know to be potentially dangerous, say something. Say something to the adult in charge and to others in the run. If the behavior continues, work as a group or leave the run.
Thanks,
McCarren Dog Run User & Small Dog Owner
In the interest of the safety of children and dogs, I wanted to remind everyone:
-the dog run is designated for dogs and their adult caretakers.
-the dog run is not a petting zoo
-the dog run is not a playground (there is a playground at Driggs & Lorimer)
-the dog run is not a picnic area (there are tables and benches right outside the run).
-many dogs (especially smaller breeds) are afraid of children
-dogs may bite out of fear
-dogs relieve themselves in the run
-the run, therefore, can be a source of parasites like Giardia (to which humans and animals are susceptible)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/Giardiasis/factsht_giardia.htm#transmission
-therefore, a child who plays in the run like it is a sandbox, or who eats while playing in the run might get ill.
If you are a parent who wants to enter a run with your young child, please ask those in the dog run if their dogs are okay with small children before bringing her/him in.
As a small dog owner, I want my dog run to be as safe and healthy an environment as possible (for dogs and humans of all ages). If you are a dog owner who witnesses some behavior that you know to be potentially dangerous, say something. Say something to the adult in charge and to others in the run. If the behavior continues, work as a group or leave the run.
Thanks,
McCarren Dog Run User & Small Dog Owner
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
This Weekend - April 25 & 26
THIS SATURDAY, 4/25, NY Cares is hosting a volunteering event at McCarren Park. OSA (Open Space Alliance) has organized an activity for volunteers to help dig out both dog runs. If you can pitch in, please stop by to help anytime from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Given that this activity is happening, please be sensitive to the level activity in the runs as it may not be conducive for normal dog run play.
Other local dog runs:
* McGorlick Dog Park Located on Driggs between Russell and N. Henry in McGorlick Park in Greenpoint
* Cooper Park Dog Run Located at Maspeth Avenue & Olive Street in Cooper Park in East Williamsburg Visit website for map of park and directions. http://cooperbark.blogspot.com/
* Hillside Dog Run Located two blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge, bounded by Middagh St, Vine Street and Columbia Heights in Dumbo. Visit website for map of park and directions. http://www.hillsidedogs.org
On SUNDAY 4/26, BARC/ASPCA will be giving out doggie treats & human cookies to raise funds for both organization. Please be generous.
Given that this activity is happening, please be sensitive to the level activity in the runs as it may not be conducive for normal dog run play.
Other local dog runs:
* McGorlick Dog Park Located on Driggs between Russell and N. Henry in McGorlick Park in Greenpoint
* Cooper Park Dog Run Located at Maspeth Avenue & Olive Street in Cooper Park in East Williamsburg Visit website for map of park and directions. http://cooperbark.blogspot.com/
* Hillside Dog Run Located two blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge, bounded by Middagh St, Vine Street and Columbia Heights in Dumbo. Visit website for map of park and directions. http://www.hillsidedogs.org
On SUNDAY 4/26, BARC/ASPCA will be giving out doggie treats & human cookies to raise funds for both organization. Please be generous.
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Dog Park Roundtable - May 9
Want to learn more about getting a dog park renovated? Want to see what other dog runs are doing? Want meet with other dog run users to see how to improve McCarren Dog Run? Please to attend the Dog Park Roundtable on Saturday, May 9th, meet at Tompkins Square Dog Park (the first official dog run in NYC) at 10 am. 
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Freak Accident at the Dog Run/Your Help Needed
good evening dog community,
this weekend the unexpected happened -- a dog scaled the fence and was impaled by one of the spikes. thankfully there is a happy ending to this incident with someone helping from the street to get Dio back to the dog run side and the spike missing a major artery, you can read the details below.
YOUR HELP IS NEED to safeguard the run so this NEVER happens again:
* Help with a Clean-Up this Saturday March 14 at 10 am. One of the reasons Dio was able to make it over the fence was that the woods chips were so high are on the side especially in the corner nearest driggs and the small dog run. Come on Saturday and help pull the chips from the fence.
* Someone, or a few people talk, to Rich (has a Puggle named Chesty) and ask him to focus his dog run upkeep energy toward pulling the chips away from the fence especially the cornered mentioned.
* Or help figure out how to safeguard the spikes: One thought was to put tennis balls on all the spikes,
however after a little more thought, we concluded that this just make the spikes more appealing to some dogs and continue to be dangerous. We need to determine some way to cape the spikes. Another thought is to put black chair leg bumpers on each of the spike http://www.mclendons.com/item.asp?sku=10948400
Can someone investigate this idea? Or find a better solution. and share with the community.
I realize that one of best solutions would be to grind the spikes down but that is likely too expensive and would have to work through the parks department for approval and that can take forever.
Can't do any of these things but use the dog run every week...make a donation via our website www.mcdogrun.org and click on the ? button under Make a Donation heading on the right side of the website. We have $60 in the dog run kitty right now (not a lot of money).
And please spread the word about what happened last weekend and ask people to help on Saturday morning.
Thanks.
Christine
PS I spoke with Open Space Alliance/Parks Department about the new chain link fencing replace the snow fencing project and it looks like it might happen this spring. You may remember emails about this back in September.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: elizabeth
Date: Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Subject: bad accident at the dog park
To: mcdogrun@gmail.com
Hello,
I got your email address from a man in the dog run
yesterday after my dog Dio had a death defying accident
in an attempt to jump out of the dog run.
It was yesterday morning at 11 am. Dio decided to jump the
fence to get a squirrel on the other side. I was standing
right by him and the next thing I knew he was in
mid-jump. His leg caught on one of the spikes and he was
impaled. The spike went in his stomach and out the back of
his leg and he was hanging by the leg over the fence on
the outside. I was trying to hold him up yelling for help
and a girl driving down driggs jumped out of her car and
pushed him up on the outside and we were able to lift him
off the ten inch spike and set him down inside the run.
That girl saved his life then she jumped back in her car
and drove off.
When I set him down he was in shock but standing up -
I rushed him in my friend's car to the vet on Berry and
N. 1st and they took him into emergency and operated on
him for almost two hours. The dr. said his main artery
was pumping in plain view and that the spike had missed
it by a hair and that he would certainly have not survived
if it hadn't have been just so. He said it was a miracle
that the spike hadn't lacerated the artery considering the profundity
of the wound. He was able to sew him up and he thinks
and hopes dio will be ok and that he'll recover without
infection. I can't tell you what a scary sight it was to
watch and I realize Dio was VERY lucky to have fallen
the way he did.
I wanted to tell you what happened to Dio and also to report
that the wood chips have built up so high in the corner
where he jumped - (the southwest corner), that the fence
is only about 3 to 3 1/2 ft. high - an easy jump for many dogs.
Actually the whole fence along driggs is really low now because
of the chips. I am SO afraid this will happen to another dog with
spring coming and all the squirrels running around. Dio isn't even a
big jumper - from the inside it looks easy but in mid-air when you
see that drop on the outside a dog might want to turn back like I
think Dio did and fall on those horrendous spikes! I'm dying just
thinking about it happening again.
I have some ideas about how we could fix it - by lashing
plywood to the fence so it would go above the spikes in
combination with digging out some of the wood chips.
Or maybe you guys have a better idea. I am happy
to help out with whatever you decide should happen. I think
we should act fast though so no one else suffers what Dio
is suffering now. Please let me know what I can do to help.
Thanks so much,
Elizabeth
this weekend the unexpected happened -- a dog scaled the fence and was impaled by one of the spikes. thankfully there is a happy ending to this incident with someone helping from the street to get Dio back to the dog run side and the spike missing a major artery, you can read the details below.
YOUR HELP IS NEED to safeguard the run so this NEVER happens again:
* Help with a Clean-Up this Saturday March 14 at 10 am. One of the reasons Dio was able to make it over the fence was that the woods chips were so high are on the side especially in the corner nearest driggs and the small dog run. Come on Saturday and help pull the chips from the fence.
* Someone, or a few people talk, to Rich (has a Puggle named Chesty) and ask him to focus his dog run upkeep energy toward pulling the chips away from the fence especially the cornered mentioned.
* Or help figure out how to safeguard the spikes: One thought was to put tennis balls on all the spikes,
however after a little more thought, we concluded that this just make the spikes more appealing to some dogs and continue to be dangerous. We need to determine some way to cape the spikes. Another thought is to put black chair leg bumpers on each of the spike http://www.mclendons.com/item.asp?sku=10948400
Can someone investigate this idea? Or find a better solution. and share with the community.
I realize that one of best solutions would be to grind the spikes down but that is likely too expensive and would have to work through the parks department for approval and that can take forever.
Can't do any of these things but use the dog run every week...make a donation via our website www.mcdogrun.org and click on the ? button under Make a Donation heading on the right side of the website. We have $60 in the dog run kitty right now (not a lot of money).
And please spread the word about what happened last weekend and ask people to help on Saturday morning.
Thanks.
Christine
PS I spoke with Open Space Alliance/Parks Department about the new chain link fencing replace the snow fencing project and it looks like it might happen this spring. You may remember emails about this back in September.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: elizabeth
Date: Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Subject: bad accident at the dog park
To: mcdogrun@gmail.com
Hello,
I got your email address from a man in the dog run
yesterday after my dog Dio had a death defying accident
in an attempt to jump out of the dog run.
It was yesterday morning at 11 am. Dio decided to jump the
fence to get a squirrel on the other side. I was standing
right by him and the next thing I knew he was in
mid-jump. His leg caught on one of the spikes and he was
impaled. The spike went in his stomach and out the back of
his leg and he was hanging by the leg over the fence on
the outside. I was trying to hold him up yelling for help
and a girl driving down driggs jumped out of her car and
pushed him up on the outside and we were able to lift him
off the ten inch spike and set him down inside the run.
That girl saved his life then she jumped back in her car
and drove off.
When I set him down he was in shock but standing up -
I rushed him in my friend's car to the vet on Berry and
N. 1st and they took him into emergency and operated on
him for almost two hours. The dr. said his main artery
was pumping in plain view and that the spike had missed
it by a hair and that he would certainly have not survived
if it hadn't have been just so. He said it was a miracle
that the spike hadn't lacerated the artery considering the profundity
of the wound. He was able to sew him up and he thinks
and hopes dio will be ok and that he'll recover without
infection. I can't tell you what a scary sight it was to
watch and I realize Dio was VERY lucky to have fallen
the way he did.
I wanted to tell you what happened to Dio and also to report
that the wood chips have built up so high in the corner
where he jumped - (the southwest corner), that the fence
is only about 3 to 3 1/2 ft. high - an easy jump for many dogs.
Actually the whole fence along driggs is really low now because
of the chips. I am SO afraid this will happen to another dog with
spring coming and all the squirrels running around. Dio isn't even a
big jumper - from the inside it looks easy but in mid-air when you
see that drop on the outside a dog might want to turn back like I
think Dio did and fall on those horrendous spikes! I'm dying just
thinking about it happening again.
I have some ideas about how we could fix it - by lashing
plywood to the fence so it would go above the spikes in
combination with digging out some of the wood chips.
Or maybe you guys have a better idea. I am happy
to help out with whatever you decide should happen. I think
we should act fast though so no one else suffers what Dio
is suffering now. Please let me know what I can do to help.
Thanks so much,
Elizabeth
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