To a certain downtown Halifax garden: you make me angry! Such a gorgeous part of this city and so loved by all of us who live here. There are ways to preserve the beauty of the place and still allow leashed animals, playing on the grass, picnics and general activities. I was told to leave with my dog today and also saw a girl walking through with her bike (not even riding it!!) asked to leave. I understand that keeping the park clean is important, but leaving it untouched is beyond unfortunate. I’m not asking for dogs to run wild or a stampede of rugby players to play a tournament there. Simply a space where everyone can enjoy the beauty and the grass won’t be so lonely. —Dog Lady
This article appears in May 17-23, 2012.
From the Public Gardens Rules and Services.
The Halifax Public Gardens has existed for over 140 years.
Please respect the following rules to maintain the Garden
for future generations.
~ No pets
~ No bikes
~ No jogging
~ No feeding the birds and waterfowl
~ Lawn activity only permitted on the Family Lawn Area
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Hope that clears it up for you. Or don’t rules apply to you?
there are lots of places to bike or take your dog in the city. grass does not get lonely
Hay Hugo! You’ve been off the radar for a while. How are things? How’s Blue going?
Hugo nailed it.
Take your dog to a dog park or a place dogs are welcome. The Public Gardens is not one of those places, and as much as I love dogs, they have had these rules for a long time and I like it that way.
Wp
places are only beautiful, if you pick up your animal’s shit o.p.
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Simply a space where everyone can enjoy the beauty and the grass won’t be so lonely. —Dog Lady
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The Commons ring a bell for you snd Boots the Dog?
And why would you be surprised you were asked to leave, when the rules are publically posted/known?
Wp
Hey Ivan. I had to take a break from LTWWB, all the anger was getting to me.
Sorry I missed the summit, I was really looking forward to it, but I had a water supply problem here (clog) that took most of the day.
Blue’s doing great, he’s got more energy since I switched him to the raw food diet, and his farts don’t smell nearly so bad 😉
Still looking for another job…and I’m still too old or too over qualified, but I do have a line on a teaching job that looks good.
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So, what have I missed, and what’s new for you?
duh duh derp dee durp derp…
c’mon woofy…
laa dee durpdy dah derp….
leave? but why? it’s just grass….
wha? sign? what sign?
not ALLOWED??? that’s derp dee stupid…
must post a bitch about this later…
there is an abortion thread and a god thread hugo. be careful out there mon ami xox
We have all stepped in dog shit at one time or another. If owners would actually clean up then maybe that rule wouldnt be needed. But inevitably, someone and their doggy would ruin it for the rest.
Hi paingirl.
God & abortion, again eh? Well I’ve already expressed my thoughts on abortion, and faith based belief systems, so I won’t bother rehashing it (I don’t need the stress).
“xox” – reminds me of a tale I heard, where a office worker complained about a military officer who always added “huggs and kisses” in all his correspondence to her.
S. Blogins
L/Cdr
XO
Ha Ha Ha Ha, Hugo>: )
Operation Dunkirk is finished; we have bidden farewell to barrington and left it in the hands of the doorway shitters, window smashers and alms beggars. We want to be able to open our doors by the end of the month, but much remains to be done. We don’t want to be like Prince of Wales when she went out after Bismark.
Let’s take a moment and imagine what it would be like if pooches WERE allowed in the wee pretty park. Some folks missed the poop-n-scoop memo and other folks think it’s charming to hang their little doggie-dung baggies from trees and fences ‘n such. Not everyone is a pooper-scooper. But you might be surprised who is:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/…
(last photo)
from a dog’s point of view it would be a paradise. all those unpeed on trees and stuff to dig up
Hugo – is there a by-law prohibiting the pan handling filth in the PG’s?
We need a piranha pool to heave the cocksuckers in, we could call it the Dinsdale Pool
There is a side lawn that you can go picnicking on, dumbshit, and the Common is barely three frigging blocks away.
Leaving it untouched is beyond unfortunate? Have you got your head stuffed up your privileged ass so far your eyes have been turned into diamonds by the unrelenting pressure, rendering you blind? It’s one of the last surviving examples of a formal Victorian garden. Looking, not touching, is the motherfucking point.
The Public Gardens is a public formal Victorian style garden not just a regular park, and many features in there are fragile and costly to maintain. If dogs were allowed there would eventually be problems with various dog wastes. The Gardens are very crowded at times, and the paths are not overly wide so no need to have dogs, even on leash, cavorting around people’s legs, barking at, or trying to chase, ducks, swans, kids etc. There are many parks in town where dogs are allowed, some on-leash and a few off leash ones. However, many dog owners spoil it for many by not following the basic rules in those places. So, not much chance they would do so in the P. G. either, if they were allowed in there.
Victoria Park is just across the street and the Commons and Point Pleasant Park are not far away, if you can not be without Fido for a few minutes.
Since dogs are permitted in most local parks, is it too much to ask for one small area where people can enjoy a bit of nature without dogs being around?
Can’t pick up dog piss, and as dartguy says, it takes a lot of work, time, energy and other resources to maintain the Public Gardens and the last thing we need is a bunch of dogs shitting and pissing all over it.
I can just imagine the state of the gardens if the city let people walk all over the lawn and let dogs piss all over the place.
That’s funny, Victor—the piranha pool—who would you name it for? Sounds a bit more like Cornwallis or Amherst rather than the Anne of Green Gables Lake of Shining Waters Piranha Pool…
Hugo—welcome back (xo) D of C doesn’t surprise me –picked it up with grace and humour—something every pet owner needs in abundance!
Ivan—love the new avatar (Here’s to our wives and sweethearts—may they never meet!)
Dr. Maturin’s going to name a Galapagos shrub after me – something prickly and difficult to eradicate. >: )
Can’t use Victoria Park, it’s the second home for the Occupy scum who are returning now the weather is warm, if I see one more pic of mud-boy I’ll puke.
We’ll be treated to Kyle Buott and the Mud-Face Minstrels singing their “hilarious” new parody of Barret’s Privateers.
“I camped out to protest corporate greed
But some 16 year old runaway stole my weed
Gaia damn them all, I was told
that Kelly and council were going to fold.
Now I’m a mud-faced cunt in a holding cell
Someone tell me if capitalism fell
I guess you’re stuck with the commons OP. Besides you don’t want to stress out the ducks with a bunch of canines running around. The little kids are bad enough.
Simply a place where the grass is covered with steaming divots. Keep the shithounds in your own yard.
I heard some occupiers on the radio saying that now that the weather is warm, “occupying” would be fun! Ooooh I’m not looking forward to the smells.
I’m going to produce an inexpensive cologne called “Occupe”; an essence of patchouli, sweat, hemp and pepper spray. It will come in different colours so street skells can mix shooters with it.
I’m waiting for the first mutant who, in a dope fuelled funk, sets fire to one of the tents and fries a few scumbags – the city will be lashed and sued as uncaring and failing to provide adequate shelter for filth.
I’ll be doing a brisk mail-order business selling Daisy Red Ryders to the tenants of Vark Pic
http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/5763/8…
“Like, Shane. Did you put too much copper in todays lentil curry?”
“Who cares, dude. let’s play some hackeysack and get high”
“Fuck Yeah! I love being an urban revolutionary”