we've only just begun......

Subject: we've only just begun......

The Off-Leash Struggle Continues - Our Opposition has 1500 protest signatures

We are not done yet - The final Parks hearing is on Feb. 22. We need your help! The anti-ofleash crowd is mustering their forces- their online petition has about 1500 signatures. We can't let them beat us in the home stretch!

Sign the NYCDOG online petition at:
http://petitionspot.com/petitions/amendparksregs

Visit the NYCDOG web page for updated information:
http://www.NYCoffleash.com/

NYCDOG (New York City Council of Dog Owner Groups) are the people who have tirelessly volunteered on our behalf through the court and City Health Department hearings to see responsible off-leash become law

E-Mail the Parks Commissioner and tell him why offleash is important to *your* quality of life, as well as your dog's!

Email Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of Parks and Rec:
www.nycgovparks.org/contact_us/html/contact.html

Better yet, a nice snail-mail:

Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of Parks and Rec
The Arsenal
Central Park
830 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10021

We need people to come speak at the hearing!

The hearing will be held at 1pm on Feb 22nd at the Chelsea Recreation Center located at 430 West 25th Street. If we do not show up, the opposition will be the only ones there. And they are VERY angry people!

Here's a chance to tell the Park's Commissioner how having access to a few hours of off-leash each day has made New York City a quality place to work and live.

You do not need to register in advance - speakers will be allowed two minutes.

We need to know we have people coming to speak so please inform Mary McInerney that you are willing to go to bat for us at [email protected]

We are so close, yet so far! Please, it only takes a few minutes.

Thanks.

Mary McInerney
President
FIDO in Prospect Park
www.fidobrooklyn.org