off-leash park rules

Please keep your dog on leash until you are inside the park itself.

Once in the Park, unless you are moving your dog from one part of the park to another, the dog must be off-leash.

Non-member or visitor dogs are only allowed in the park during hours when the park office is staffed. Those hours are posted on the "about us" page.

Dogs should wear current license tags and be up-to-date on shots. If they are not wearing tag, proof of rabies vaccination must be shown.

Male dogs over 7 months of age must be neutered. No exceptions for Visitor Dogs.

For safety reasons children must be at least 4 feet tall to use the off-leash park (carried babies are okay) and must be closely supervised.  All children will be expected to behave in an adult manner:  no running, no chasing dogs, no petting of others' dogs unless permission is granted by the owners first. No strollers, please.

No more than 3 dogs per person on any one visit, please.

No dogs in heat or sick dogs or dogs with fleas.

Keep an eye on your dog at all times. This means stay with your dog.

Be polite:   Scoop the poop!  Bag stations and trash cans are available throughout the park.

The safest collar for your dog to wear in a dog park is a flat buckle collar (actually, a break-away collar is even safer; if a dog wearing a break-away collar should get caught on another dog or on a fence, etc., its weight will cause the collar to break, thus freeing the dog). We do not allow dogs in the off-leash part of the park to wear prong or pinch collars; these are training collars and should not be left on a dog when it plays. We highly discourage the use of choke chain collars, as these can also be dangerous (a dog in an Orlando dog park recently got its choke chain caught on another dog while the two were playing and suffocated before anyone could find wire cutters to remove the collar). Also not allowed in the park (unless an exception has been made by management) are electronic collars (shock collars).

If annoying (to the other dog or its owner) or aggressive behavior is observed from your dog, take immediate action:  either move your dog to another part of the park, leave the park, or do whatever you have to do to prevent the behavior (time-out, redirect behavior, etc.).   

Rough play can be fine as long as it is consensual.  Rough play and chasing is not acceptable if any of the dogs involved is not comfortable with the situation.  Just because a dog's intent is to play does not make the dog's behavior acceptable or tolerable if the other dog is not enjoying itself.

Digging is not allowed except at the sand pit/dog mountain by the front pond; if your dog does dig a hole elsewhere, do your best to fill it in.

Curb excessive barking, especially near the back pond where there are close neighbors.

Have fun!