Friday, March 25, 2011

Tomorrow!! March 26 ! It's a Pawty at Urban Island Home Furnishings!

"Dogs on Camera" Photographers Reception 
Saturday, March 26, 2011, 7 pm - 9 pm
Frank Bette Satellite Gallery at Urban Island Home Furnishings
1901 Broadway, corner of Clement Ave., Alameda, Ca

We're having a Pawty and you're invited!! We invited photographers from the local community to take pictures at the Alameda Dog Parks and submit their work to the Satellite Gallery for exhibit, and a contest.

Please join us on Saturday, March 26 from 7 - 9 pm to enjoy the charming dog portraits, and find out which piece wins "Best in Show" (and a free year's membership to the
Frank Bette Center for the Arts.


Drop by and socialize with artists, dog people and dogs (social, leashed dogs are welcome!!) Music, beverages, snacks and ambiance provided by our wonderful host,
Urban Island Home Furnishings.

For more information about the reception, or exhibiting at the satellite gallery, please contact Carrie Isett at gallerycurator@comcast.net.

(All rights to event photo, "Please move, You're killing my groove", belong to K. Smokey Cormier, Photographer. Used here by permission.)

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Master Plan 2011 Survey | East Bay Regional Park District

Master Plan 2011 Survey | East Bay Regional Park District


"The East Bay Regional Park District is currently updating the agency's Master Plan policy document. This is your opportunity to help determine the focus of the 2011 Master Plan update. Our Board of Directors would like to have benefit of your input into this process. Your responses will remain confidential and anonymous.

Thank you in advance for your input and support of your Regional Park District. This survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Sincerely,
Robert E. Doyle, General Manager "

Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Alameda Small Dogs site is up!!

The hosting provider finally got the error resolved and we are back in action!!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Hosting Server experiencing technical problem...

Just wanted to let you know that, due to some weird glitch  in the hosting server, the AlamedaSmallDogs.org site is not available now. GoDaddy assures me that their team of experts is working on the problem, and has advised that the site will be back up by Monday. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Monday, March 07, 2011

It's a Pawty at Urban Island Home Furnishings!

"Dogs on Camera" Photographers Reception 
Saturday, March 26, 2011, 7 pm - 9 pm
Frank Bette Satellite Gallery at Urban Island Home Furnishings
1901 Broadway, corner of Clement Ave., Alameda, Ca

We're having a Pawty and you're invited!! We invited photographers from the local community to take pictures at the Alameda Dog Parks and submit their work to the Satellite Gallery for exhibit, and a contest.

Please join us on Saturday, March 26 from 7 - 9 pm to enjoy the charming dog portraits, and find out which piece wins "Best in Show" (and a free year's membership to the
Frank Bette Center for the Arts.


Drop by and socialize with artists, dog people and dogs (social, leashed dogs are welcome!!) Music, beverages, snacks and ambiance provided by our wonderful host,
Urban Island Home Furnishings.


For more information about the reception, or exhibiting at the satellite gallery, please contact Carrie Isett at gallerycurator@comcast.net.

(All rights to event photo, "Please move, You're killing my groove", belong to K. Smokey Cormier, Photographer. Used here by permission.)

Friday, March 04, 2011

Pro-Pooch Group Plans Rally, Protest Of Proposed Dog Ban: News: SFAppeal

Pro-Pooch Group Plans Rally, Protest Of Proposed Dog Ban: News: SFAppeal

Protest Proposed Dog Ban in Golden Gate Recreational Areas!

Tom Hieronymous writes:

The history of this started back in the seventies when there was an attempt to ban all dogs from the Golden Gate National Recreation Areas.  However, because at that time there had been no studies or no public discussion period given, the courts threw out the ban.  So the Feds went back to the drawing board and, decades later, at the tax payer's expense of more than a million dollars, they produced a 17 POUND document about the impact of dogs in the parks, a document, by the way, that is not supported by science.

(That document is available to read on-line on the GGNRA website: http://165.83.37.12/document.cfm?parkID=303&projectID=11759&documentID=38106)
 
Now the proposal is back to greatly restrict dogs (Crissy Field, Ft. Fungsten, and others) or ban dogs altogether (Muir Beach and other areas) in all of their parks.  

A discussion period is happening RIGHT NOW, giving people a chance to organize, rebutt their "findings," and protest a ban. So far, the proposed ban has caused quite a stir with outcries from dog owners against these injustices. 

A series of four open houses have been planned to meet with the GGNRA parks representatives.

More information can be found: 

--by Googling "Dogs of Golden Gate," 

Comments can be make on the proposal at the GGNRA site.

Below is an email sent by a supporter:

"The GGNRA proposal is absolutely draconian.   They propose, e.g., to ban all dogs - not just off-leash walking - in areas where off-leash walking has been permitted for at least  the past  34 years and where the majority of all users are people walking their dogs.  (The so-called "New Lands").    Other bans on off-leash walking will effectively reduce the available area in San Francisco and the northern half of San Mateo county to 1/2 of the current Fort Funston and Crissy Field areas.
Both the SF SPCA and San Mateo's Peninsula Humane Society have written letters opposing the GGNRA's restrictive stance.

There will be an "open house" with GGNRA representatives at Cabrillo School, on Crespi Drive in Pacifica on March 9 : 4-8 pm.   Please come if you can!
Also - funds are being collected through the Crissy Field organization for a lawyer and an environmental specialist, on the theory that public comment will not be sufficient.  (Crissy Field Dogwalkers have legal 501 (c) (4) status).   Please donate if you can!

Finally - one last source of information: www.montaradogs.com . The Montara Dog Blog is specifically focused on the New Lands. This is the area where dogs would simply be banned - on or off-leash.
The New Lands comprise virtually all of the open space on the coast north of Half Moon Bay.  They run from north of Montara south  behind all the communities along the coast down to Half Moon Bay - Moss Beach, El Grenada, Princeton. This is pretty much all the available space. The environmental pressure and degradation on the remaining one mile loop of County park in the area is absolutely predictable.  "

Natalie B.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Alameda Small Dog Park Wins Beast of the Bay 2011 Award!

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Ae0a5a6e0e1531762521e412fff2004 Alameda Small Dog Park Wins Beast of the Bay 2011 Award!
The Alameda Small Dog Park was voted "Best Adult Dog Play Group/Event" by Bay Woof voters,...
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Poki and Friday cuddling on the table




Greeting from Poki's mom, Heidi.

Here's Poki with one of her best Park Pals, Friday! Aren't they just the cutest?