Showing 12 posts tagged with "leash free"
It’s tiny, and it’s wedged between busy downtown streets, but a third dog park is soon to open in Baltimore — a joint effort of The Downtown Partnership and the city.
It’s only a tenth of an acre — bounded by Fayette Street, Park Avenue, Baltimore and Liberty streets, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Once opened, possibly in [...]
Scores of dogs were unhooked from their leashes and frolicked in new-found freedom today as the long-awaited Locust Point Dog Park was officially opened – the first city-built dog park in Baltimore.
Not far from where the rockets red glared, and the bombs bursted in air, Mayor Sheila Dixon cut the ribbon and swung open the gates to [...]
Baltimore’s City Council tonight approved lowering the fine for leash law violations from $1,000 to $200 for a first offense.
Subsequent offenses would carry fines of $400 and $600.
A city council committee recommended the changes after a hearing held last week.
The council also voted to lower the fine for failing to clean up dog waste from [...]
I had hoped it wouldn’t come to this.
But after a little opinion piece that appeared yesterday in a Baltimore Sun feature called Second Opinion – one that opined all dogs should always be on leashes because some of them interfere with joggers — I have no choice.
I’m coming out against joggers.
The Sun editorial blurb begins this [...]
Baltimore’s $1,000 fine for letting a dog of its leash is, effectively, a thing of the past — if even that.
A city council committee yesterday — saying the amended penalty was passed by mistake — approved lowering the fine to $200 on a first offense, and promised that, for all 35 of the $1,000 tickets issued [...]
