Dog Play Dates and Walks
supporting our Pet Food Banks initiative
DOG FRIENDLY DORSET
FUN. SOCIAL. SUPPORT.
Become an annual member £25 for the year (£2 a month) and access our community of monthly play dates. You may like to come to a breed-specific play date or our all-breeds nosies around Dorset. These funds support Merlin’s Pet Food Banks initiative.
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.
Check your order confirmation for a link to access our play dates community.
2. Or donate a monthly subscription to keep supporting us and to try out a play date if you are new to us: pay £3 / month (see Paypal subscribe below)
Check your order confirmation for a link to access our play dates community.
Range of Play Dates
currently meeting each month. We also have All Breeds walks in BCP and Dorchester areas.
If you would like to host a play date email dorsetdogscic@gmail.com
Your dog MUST be friendly and have social manners to attend. Please contact the hosts 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 CONTRIBUTIONS.
Please note that members of the Facebook Dog Friendly Dorset organise these walks to support our initiative
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 :)
We also provide Stress Free Meets for those dogs who cannot cope in a group environment (nervous and/or reactive dogs). Please book separately.
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.
