Cruse Dog Park, Springfield-Greene County Park Board

12/06/2025

11/17/2025

🐾🐶 FREE Dog Bite Prevention Class! 🐶🐾
📅 December 11
⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
📍 Mercy Hospital Springfield – Doyle Meeting Room

Want to better understand dog body language? Curious what signals to look for before a bite happens? Or just want to help your family feel safer and more confident around dogs? 🐕✨

Check out the FREE Dog Bite Prevention Class, Registration Required - see the flyer for more details!

10/23/2025

🎃🐾 Show Us Your Pets & Pumpkins Pics! 🐾🎃

We know your furry friends rocked their costumes this past weekend at Pets & Pumpkins—and we want to see them! 😍✨ Whether your pup was a pumpkin, pirate, princess, or pickle, share those adorable snapshots for this week’s .

Drop your photos in the comments and let’s see which four-legged cutie wins the unofficial “Best Dressed” bragging rights. 🐶👑🐕

📸 Bonus points for matching human + pet costumes!

10/16/2025

🐾 October is Adopt a Dog Month / Shelter Dog Month 🐾

This , we’re shining a light on the small but meaningful ways we can support the animals in our community.

Not looking to add a new furry family member? That’s okay—there are still plenty of ways to make a difference:
🐶 Take a shelter dog for a walk.
🐱 Spend some time playing with shelter cats.
🐕 Bring a shelter dog to a local event for extra adoption exposure.

These simple acts not only brighten the lives of shelter pets—they might just boost your own mood, too. 💛

10/11/2025

🌈🐾 Today’s Rainbow Bridge Shoutout: Bailey 🐾🌈 2005 - 2020

Some stories start with heartbreak… but turn into something truly beautiful. 💛

Bailey’s first chapter began when her previous owner surrendered her for euthanasia. 💔 But fate had other plans... One big-hearted vet tech knew just the person who needed Bailey… even if she didn’t know it yet. 😉

Two playdates later, Bailey had found her furever home—complete with a backyard perfect for people-watching and making friends with park walkers (one even returned her home once when a sneaky fence mishap gave her a solo adventure!).

You might notice in her photos that Bailey sometimes had one eye instead of two. She came home with both, but due to her short nose, her eyes were more exposed and vulnerable. Sadly, one couldn’t be saved—but Bailey never let that slow her down or dampen her joy. She reminded her mom daily that love, not looks, is what really matters. ❤️

Bailey filled her days with float trips, adventures, snuggles with her sister Khloe the mini dachshund, and soaking in every moment of life.

Her story is proof of the saying: “Who rescued who?” 💕

We miss you, sweet Bailey. Thank you for leaving pawprints on so many hearts. 🐾✨