Dog Run Field

[splashgirl45]

I’ve just used our local one so my puppy could meet my friends dog and be off lead to play. It’s £15 for 3 to 5 dogs for 1 hour, in effect it’s 55 mins as they ask you to vacate 5 mins before the next person. It’s well set up though and the person before us hadn’t got her dog in the car but it was in a fenced off section so even if we had got our dogs out they wouldn’t have been able to interact, but we waited to drive into that section and closed the gate so ours couldn’t go anywhere.. they have a few benches dotted about, a small paddling pool and water bowls, and a small platform with steps on both ends..it’s very popular and quite hard to get booked in ..

 

[Pearlsasinger]

our local one has a lock on the gate and when booking they give you the code and also ask you to finish 5 mins early so there is room for the next person to park and get their dogs out and that stops dogs meeting at the gate so safer for all

One local to us has a gap of 15 mins to allow for changeover.
We have used them for exercising Rotts without reliable recall, pups who couldn' t walk far enough to access an off lead walk and currently to let the newbie get used to being part of our pack before we risk letting her off lead where she could run away into traffic. So I think you will get plenty of custom, even next door to a forest. Our favourite one has a double gate system and you park your car in the airlock.

 

[splashgirl45]

Yes PAS that’s what I meant airlock exactly describes it.

 

[Morwenna]

There are two we use. One has separate electric entry and exit gates (you get the code when you book) and the field itself is through another gate. It has some parkour ‘equipment’ (straw bales, tyres, wooden runs) which we used with our old dog but my sister takes her new dog and hasn’t used any of it. The other field has a first gate to the waiting / parking area in case you’re early and the other people are still in and then a second gate with a code entry (that you are given when you book) to the actual field. This just has two benches at opposite ends. Both have poo bins and water bowls.
I think the most important things are that they are properly secure and there is water for the dogs and somewhere to sit. Plus some hedges / bushes etc for the dogs to sniff and explore. Everything else is nice but not essential.

 

[MurphysMinder]

This is our local one. We've not used it yet, but know people who do and they rate it very highly. It was set up a small number of years ago, and it's really taken off. I didn't think that there would be the demand in these parts, but I am very happy to have been proved wrong.

They do sole use hire plus a number of socialisation sessions - sometimes breed specific (beagles and bassets, anyone?) and sometimes by size or other criteria. We've going to give one of the small dog sessions a whirl sometime, a neighbour takes their dog to these and she has a ball.

I think there's a 15 minute gap between private hires to keep the two groups well apart.

https://unleashedwrenbury.co.uk/

I’ve been here a few times , I think the pool is the main attraction for most rather than just the fenced exercise area , great for swimming. I go with a friend , wouldn’t do a group session as some of the images of the body language between dogs concerns me . They have a few jumps , tunnels etc bizarrely they have recently moved the jumps onto a hardcore path .