Lowell Unleashed Seeks to Extend Humping Time for City Dogs
LOWELL — They run, fetch, roll in the mud and sniff each other with unleashed abandon. Every weeknight when their owners return home from work, the city’s canines know it’s their time to get out and blow off some steam.
“From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. we usually have 10 to 30 dogs running around in here,” said Crystal Arnott, president of Lowell Unleashed, the city dog owner’s organization that boasts a mailing list of 250 and lobbied more than two years ago to establish the city dog park at the foot of the Hunts Falls Bridge, marked by the Lowell Wastewater Utility’s landmark candy cane-stripped tubes. “People would stay longer if there were lights.”
I’m for dogs, and I’m for giving your dog’s exercise, but my Lowell Unleashed Experience was more of an unleashed humpfest (I’m referring to the dogs). And as most of you know, I am an old fashioned kind of guy and think that all humping, whether private or public, should be done in the dark…and only after the second date. If you want round the clock humping, check out one of those I90 rest areas…light’s, Mickey D’s, and all the strange humping you could possibly handle. Best of all, the City keeps 8 Gs in the checking account.
But if afterhours humping is your thing, why not shoot over to LowellUnleashed.org and give them a little pocket change and save the City some cash.
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I am sure the lights would make the cheap fencing and barbed wire look breathtaking against the backdrop of the homeless camping out near the river. Seriously, whenever I drive by that place I can’t help but think: doggie Auschwitz.
There is lots to gain from having a dog park in the City…and it does bring a group of people together. The problem from my perspective, and what I think Ned is getting at, is that it’s a social event for the owners, and the dog behavior is pretty much ignored.
The few trips I’ve made down there were spent pulling dogs off my dogs backside, while their owners yap and sip their dunks.
Still fun for my dog though.
I wish my dog liked more dogs his size. I’d take him but I don’t think the results would be anything other then bloodshed and me having to cough up money to help put someone’s poddle or Lab back together again. It’s very hit or miss- if the other dog is calm so is Brut. If the other dog isn’t calm then it looks like the last Brock Lesnar fight if they get near each other. Michael Vick would be proud.