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SEWE Marion Square

Spent most of the afternoon at the WHLR booth in Marion Square for SEWE. It was a pretty fun time. Everybody stopped to see the puppies, so people traffic tended to jam up going past the WHLR booth.

This wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. There were a lot of people that stopped by to ask about our dogs and adopting. 8 adoption applications, 3 foster and 3 volunteer applications were submitted since yesterday. That’s a big win for WHLR.

The puppies were naturally the stars of the show.

There was also some more exotic wildlife at Marion Square

A camel at SEWE 2009 taking a break

If you’re wandering through Marion Square tomorrow, stop by the WHLR booth and meet some of the dogs!

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Sazy

Sazy makes foster dog #4 since I started doing the fostering thing. She appears to be some kind of lab mix although what the other part(s) of her might be I can’t really tell. She’s pretty tall and big bodied, but to me, seems to have kind of a smallish elongated head for her body size.

Foster dog Sazy, a black Labrador Retriever mix with a white patch on her chest

So far she’s settled in pretty nicely with the other dogs, although she doesn’t seem to like when they come sniffing too close. No dust ups yet, just a bit of soft growling.

Overall, she’s a pretty sweet dog, likes to go exploring and walks pretty well on a leash but could use some additional leash training.

Over the next few days I’ll work on figuring out what kind of training I’ll need to do with her. She knows Sit but doesn’t seem to know down. Seems to know her name reasonably well.

Foster dog Sazy, a black Labrador Retriever mix with a white patch on her chest
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Barkley has left the building

It’s taken a few months, but Barkley has finally been adopted and is heading off with a nice couple to his new home in West Virginia.

I had planned on taking a bit of a break before taking on a new foster, but it looks like I’ll be taking on Sazy instead.

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Lowcountry dog park tour: Isle of Palms Bark Park

The IOP Bark Park is a decently sized fenced in dog park located just behind the IOP Recreation Center, and so far is the only dog park that features a separate small dog area.

IOP Bark Park

The Bark Park isn’t very large, about the same size as Ackerman dog park. It’s fairly wide open though and offers a lot of room for dogs to run around. Benches provide plenty of places for people to sit, and several trees provide shady spots during hot weather.

The small dog area is a long narrow strip adjacent to the main dog park. There were no small dogs around when I was there, so I’m not sure how often it gets used. Looks like it would be a good place for people with smaller dogs that don’t want to risk them getting bowled over by bigger dogs. Most of the small dogs I’ve seen though play just fine with big dogs.

Small dog area

There’s no water fountain installed in the dog park, but a large bucket in each area provides water. The water comes from a hose running from the Rec center to the dog park. Filling the bucket requires walking out of the dog park over to the building to turn the water on.

Water bucket

There are a few sandy areas where dogs can plop down to relax, cool down or work out some of their digging urges.

See the rest of the IOP Bark Park photos.

A Google Map to the IOP Bark Park.

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