Jared's Dog Park

09/30/2024

The skeleton and skeleton dog have been stolen from the park. This is why we can't have nice things!! If you took them, please locate your conscience and return them.

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09/18/2024

Many, many tail wags to the Oronoque Village Social Activities Committee for the dog parade fundraiser they held this past Saturday to support JDP! We are so grateful for their kindness, and for hosting such a fun event....and a big paws up to One Pampered Pup as well for their very generous donation!

07/28/2024

To the person who stole 3 plants from our garden, please put them back. no questions asked. this is a charity garden courtesy of the Stratford rotary club. don't be a jerk!!!

07/25/2024

Don't forget to stop by Jared's Dog Park today and support the CMAK Foundation while enjoying some cold lemonade, snacks and homemade treats for your pup! 3 - 5 PM.

07/23/2024

Visiting the park this Thursday with your pup? Drop by between 3 and 5 PM for a glass of lemonade, water or soda and baked goodies, chips or candy from Grady's Lemonade Stand! All proceeds benefit the CMAK Foundation, which provides athletic camps and preschool scholarships to communities in Connecticut and nationwide, in honor of Chase Kowalski - one of the first grade victims of Sandy Hook.
Grady is a local 11-year-old competing in the YMCA's Race for Chase kids' triathlon to benefit CMAK on Aug. 3. Participants train at the Stratford Y every day for six weeks free of charge before the event, which brings together kids from YMCA branches all over Connecticut in Southington. This is his fifth year, and each year he has held his lemonade stand to raise additional money for the CMAK Foundation, receiving a personal thank you note for the last two years from Chase's mom and dad in Newtown.
We are happy to be hosting him at the park on Jul 25 from 3 - 5 PM, and hope you'll come by with a little spare cash to put towards a worthy cause while enjoying some lemonade and goodies ...including homemade treats for your pups! Everything is $1 - $2.
Rain Date - Aug. 1

07/11/2024

To the inconsiderate dog owner who didn't pick this up late on Wednesday, would you let your dog leave this by your front door? Please clean up after your pups.

07/10/2024

Please make sure you keep your dogs on leash while in the parking lot to protect our new plantings. Thanks.

07/10/2024

A beautiful new park, many thanks to Shannon Lawn and Landscaping! https://www.facebook.com/ShannonLandscaping

07/06/2024

We will be closed Tuesday, July 9th, for beautification project to begin. Please ensure your pups are leashed in parking lot to protect our new planting. Thank you.

06/14/2024

Don't forget tomorrow's meet and greet at the park - Barkfast With Your Dog! Drop by any time between 10 AM and 12 noon for complimentary coffee, juice, donuts and baked goodies for you and homemade treats for your pups, meet the volunteers, and connect with other pup parents for play dates. You might even find your pup's new best friend!!!!

06/04/2024

Join us Saturday morning, June 15, for "Bark-fast" with your dog - a Jared's Dog Park open house from 10 AM - 12 noon! We'll have complimentary coffee, donuts and baked goodies for you and treats for the pups...and we hope you'll come out and meet other members of JDP and visitors to the park and their dogs. Take this opportunity to "network" with other members and hook up your dogs for playdates at the park so that you can be sure they'll have a friend to play with when you visit.
We hope to host events like this one periodically through the summer and fall if this first meet and greet is a success!

05/16/2024

All Friends of Jared's Dog Park are welcome to attend our semi-annual board meeting on Tues. May 28 at 6 PM, Dockside Brewery. We'll be reviewing budget, fundraising, park beautification and other administrative issues, as well as welcoming two new board members, so please join us! RSVP by May 25 to let us know if you will be attending; you may respond via comment below, or email us at [email protected].

05/03/2024

park is open with fresh chips. thanks to our volunteers. And thanks to Kelly Kerrigan and Stratford public works

05/02/2024

corrected time for volunteers on Friday is 4-7pm. thanks to everyone who can stop by to help.

04/30/2024

IMPORTANT UPDATE RE PARK CLOSURE FOR CHIP DELIVERY!!!
Due to mechanical problems with equipment that handles delivery and initial spreading of chips, JDP will be closed, unfortunately, from Wed to Friday this week (5/1 - 5/3). This also means that we will need help raking chips Friday afternoon 4 - 7, instead of Thurs.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and please extend our sincere apologies to your pups!

04/26/2024

FRESH CHIPS ARE COMING! The park will be closed May 1 and 2 for the delivery and raking of new wood chips. Unless your dogs can handle a rake, they can't be in the park on May 2...but you CAN! We could really use some help raking on the afternoon of May 2 for anyone who has even an hour to spare. It's a great way to help out and meet some fellow members of the JDP community, and we really need you. We will have a few extra rakes on hand, but bring your own along if you have one. Complimentary bottled water and home-baked goodies for those who come by to help.

04/15/2024

We would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to Stratford Rotary Club,CT for their generous donation to Jared's Dog Park. Expect to see some w**d clearing in the parking areas, new signage, fresh supplies of frisbees and tennis balls, and other beautification projects that will ensure Jared's remains a welcoming gathering place for all the dog-lovers in the Stratford community and their puppers!

04/02/2024

we've had issues with dogs being aggressive near the entrance area of the park. will everyone please try and keep your dogs away from the main gates when dogs come and go and let them play in the rest of the park. everyone's help is appreciated.

03/30/2024

fountains are turned on!

02/13/2024

once again,
please don't use the park until we have cleared the gates. thanks.

01/06/2024

just a reminder in the event of heavy snow accumulation, please do not use the park until the gates get shoveled clear. thanks in advance.

11/26/2023

Jared''s Dog Park December Public Meeting will be held Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at Dockside Brewery in Milford, 6 PM. If you plan to attend, please RSVP in a reply to this post by Dec. 4.

11/21/2023

Important information for visitors to Jared's Dog Park: if your pup shows any signs of illness, please keep them home from the park until they feel better! Of course this always applies, but is even more critical in the face of information about a new and spreading virus among dogs nationwide that is particularly dangerous and can be fatal:

From New Hampshire to Oregon, researchers are trying to figure out what’s causing an infectious respiratory disease among dogs that has turned deadly in rare cases.

11/09/2023

fountains will be turned off on Friday, 11/10 for the season.

09/07/2023

Yet one more sponsor to thank for their donation of a raffle prize for Jared's Dog Park Co****le Tournament and Giant Raffle coming up in just a couple of days. It all happens this Sat. Sept 9 with 9 AM registration for players at Point No Point (Across the street from Little Pub, which is helping us out in a big way with our tournament this year!)
The raffle will run from 10 AM - 2 PM, and today's sponsor is the UPS Store in Oronoque Plaza. For the second year, they have donated an amazing gift basket of home office supplies that includes a set of acrylic art pens in a deluxe pen case, highlighters, pens, staples and post-it notes. If you haven't used acrylic paint pens before, they are so much fun for so many craft projects! Thanks UPS Store!!