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Article: Unleash the Hounds! Or Terriers, or Labs . . .
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- The Washington Post
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- April 15, 2007
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Things we envy about a dog's life: Sleeping the day away. Licking
one's bowl clean. Sniffing people without facing social ostracism.
Things we don't envy: Being sniffed. Wearing a fur coat in the
summer. And, perhaps most important, being kept on a short leash.
Thanks to the abundance of dog parks popping up across the
Washington area, canines can have their fun without being tethered
to their owners. Dog parks -- or community canine areas, as
they're known in Arlington -- are bastions of sniffing, slobbering
and tail-wagging where dogs can run leash-free. Some are fenced in;
others are not. Though there are many parks where owners and their
pups are known to congregate, official dog ...