Girl Scout Cassidy Rose helped establish Clintonville's first dog park in Bucholtz Park, August 2, 2023. PC: Fox 11 Online
CLINTONVILLE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Tails were wagging at the opening of Clintonville’s first dog park.
Bucholtz Park held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday.
The dog park is the product of a local Girl Scout’s Gold Award project. The award is the Girl Scout equivalent to the Boy Scout’s Eagle Award. It’s an 80-hour community project that will have a lasting impact.
Girl Scout Cassidy Rose says she put a lot of thought into what kind of project she would do.
“I didn’t think of it until I was coming home from school one day and I saw one of neighbor’s dogs, which was a very big dog on a very, very small leash and he just kept walking the exact same circle and I felt really bad because he’s a really big dog and I realized we don’t have one in our community, although there are some in the neighboring ones so I figured we should make one of our own,” she said.
The dog park has separate areas for big and small dogs.
Rose says some younger Girl Scout groups are thinking about improving the park by putting agility courses, tunnels and ramps inside the fenced-in areas for the dogs.
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