SEQUIM – It’ll be a grand experiment: a society whose members come in all shapes and sizes, from all walks of life – to stretch, frolic and inspect one another.
Sequim’s off-leash dog park, inside Carrie Blake Park at 202 N. Blake Ave., will open at 10 a.m. Saturday with a ceremonial leash-cutting and a speech by Mayor Walt Schubert – and after that, it’ll be governed and cleaned by its human users.
The people who made this place happen, the Sequim Dog Park Pals, have high hopes for the honor system.
But Ruth Marcus and Lynne Angeloro, two members of the Park Pals board, are also realistic. They don’t expect utopia.
So, along with the poop-bag dispensers at the park, they’re posting a list of rules – listed in full at www.sequimdogparks.org – and encouraging people to behave like good parents.
The Pals promote practices that are startling in their similarity to those at day-care centers and playgrounds.
