Play Dates and Walks
Dog Socials supporting our Pet Food Banks
DOG FRIENDLY DORSET
Play Dates and Social Dog Walks
FUN. SOCIAL. SUPPORT.
TO HELP US TO FUNDRAISE please donate to come on a PLAY DATE so that we can support Merlin’s Pet Food Banks: you can do this by becoming an annual member www.dorsetdogs.com/become-a-member
It’s £2 a month for the year to come a monthly walk and/or play date. You may like to come to a breed specific play date or our all-breeds nosies around Dorset. These funds go into the running of Merlin’s Pet Food Bank.
Become a member £25 with all the added benefits below:
Access to all play dates all year. NOTE you must have your own pet insurance to attend we cannot be held liable by Meet-ups organised by members of the Facebook group Dog Friendly Dorset.
-exclusive offers and discounts and first-to-know early bird discounts on fundraising events
3. Or donate a monthly subscription for ease which will go towards our Pet Food Banks: pay £3 / month (see Paypal subscribe below)
Your dog MUST be friendly and have social manners to attend. Please contact the members of the group organising walks if you have any questions. Every walk and Meet-Up is different. If you or your dog needs help with nerves, anxiety or reactivity please do join our STRESS FREE MEET-UPS instead x
Strictly NO REFUNDS ON THESE DONATIONS.
Please note that members of the Facebook Dog Friendly Dorset offer to organise these walks to help us to fundraise. We do not, as a CIC, organise them, we simply let you know about them.
Our suggested guideline for any walk organised by a member of the general public is to keep your dog on a lead for the first 5/10 minutes until all dogs have met each other. If any dogs take a dislike to each other these dogs we suggest remain on a lead and walked at a distance or leave the walk. This is because once dogs express a dislike to each other their stress buckets will fill and we wish to avoid any spats. As rare as they may be.
We cannot take liability for your dog and you will need to have your own pet insurance to participate in Dog Friendly Dorset Facebook Group walks and play dates. If any issues arise these must be resolved between the owners of the dogs involved. DFD is merely a Facebook group scheduling meet-ups on the Facebook page for members who are organising them within the community to bring their dogs together.
Click to see GUIDELINES for whether your dog is suited to these types of walks and play dates and please be aware that you will need your own pet insurance to attend as the Dog Friendly Dorset Facebook group cannot take any liability for the play dates you and the members are arranging and attending. As with any Facebook group, liability is between the owners of any dogs involved in any spats. You will need to take responsibility for your own dogs. Please note pictures/video will likely be taken at Play Dates by organisers and footage could be used but not limited to: website, event and marketing promotion, social media content adverts and press materials to help the Pet Food Banks or to share on people's personal socials. Please see Guidelines link above.
Dog Friendly Dorset play dates are for people and dogs in the facebook community who actively want to help support each other and belong to a community that gives back to dogs. Our dogs have so much fun and the humans do too :)
Dorset Dogs CIC provides Stress Free Meets for those dogs who cannot cope in a group environment (nervous and/or reactive dogs). These are separate.
TO REGISTER FOR A WALK/PLAY-DATE
Make sure you are a member of the Facebook group
Become an Annual Member to donate to the pet food banks
You will receive an email confirmation and a link to click through to your breed’s messenger group so that you can meet fellow facebook members and their dogs before the day
REVIEW
Here is Hobbes report on his play date experience from dad Stuart:
Today we had our first Sighthound play date.
Of course Hobbes had the best time ever, getting to run with other speedy hounds is his favourite thing!
Hobbes is a Lurcher, almost as fast as a greyhound but seemingly having much more endurance, he needs his exercise and can be a bit needy/annoying if he's doesn't get a good walk/run, so these playdates are great for him.
The pics are when we arrived at the beach and when we left. You can see the activity chart is high up, the higher the more active (IE running fast) as you can see, Hobbes was a busy bee!
So Hobbes got a good hour or so of flat out running, then we walked a bit on the beach. This left me with a nice and tired dog who was also rather cuddly, I'm sure they appreciate a fun day out!
It's also great for socialising with other dogs and it also gives the owner confidence in their dog to play off the lead.
