Things to do ... with dogs!

[bunn]

We're going to Shepperton  (off the M3 near Woking) in March, so Mollydog can have her details taken for her sculpture.   We'll be there at 10am, and it probably won't take more than an hour or so, so we thought we'd look for something interesting to do afterwards or on the way home.

Thing is, the SouthEast seems to be a monumentally un-dogfriendly place: anything that looks vaguely interesting is 'no dogs', or at best 'dogs allowed only into the peripheral areas where nothing interesting can be seen'.    I was thinking perhaps RHS Wisley, but no, it's no dogs (so is Rosemoor now, I note - :-( I'm sure that's changed recently, too, and I don't know *why* - if you go there in the winter, the place is practically deserted, they'd attract more visitors if they were dogfriendly at least out of season  ) .   Westonbirt Arboretum is dog friendly, but that would mean coming back along the M4. which makes the journey quite a bit longer.     Maybe we'll just come home and then do something locally instead.  :-(

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

In the summer, that's probably true, but I think the argument reverses itself in the winter. All the info I've seen on beaches, parks, etc, suggests that dog walkers are the only people who can be relied on to turn out in any weather, day in, day out, wallet in hand...

Certainly any cafe that doesn't serve dog owners in the winter around here might as well close.

There's the crime argument too: dogs may leave poo, but many owners litter-pick, report crime, and discourage vandalism by simply providing an audience: that's why the Forestry Commission like and encourage dogwalkers.