{"id":780660,"date":"2026-07-04T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780660\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:56:13","slug":"new-winnipeg-dog-park-includes-separate-small-dog-off-leash-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780660\/","title":{"rendered":"New Winnipeg dog park includes separate small dog off-leash area"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dog parents welcomed the opening of a new off-leash park with a dedicated small dog area in Waverley West on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Bridgwater Trails Dog Park officially opened in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Park, with a ribbon cutting with Coun. Janice Lukes and Mayor Scott Gillingham held in front of barking dogs who were already enjoying the fenced area.<\/p>\n

“This park is more than a space for dogs to run free. It’s a place for neighbours to meet, friendships to grow and our community to become even stronger,” said Andrea Chow, a member of Lukes’ staff and resident of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

The $275,000 project was built with funding from the Waverley West communities fund topped up by $50,000 from the mayor’s civic initiatives fund.<\/p>\n

The one-hectare dog park was an underused baseball diamond where people were already gathering to let their dogs run, Chow said.<\/p>\n

It features one of two dedicated officially designated small dog off-leash areas in the city. The other is in Transcona, in the eastern part of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

\"AAndrea Chow says the dog park is a place that builds community. (Travis Golby\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Jon Waldman, who helps run the Wienie and Friends dog group, said he and others have been advocating for the much-needed space.<\/p>\n

“We’ve seen so many cases, unfortunately, of smaller dogs being attacked by larger dogs,” said Waldman, who was at the park with his dachshund Oreo.<\/p>\n

“Some just want to play. Some are a little bit more aggressive,” he said, but now small dogs like Oreo can “roam and play as they want.”<\/p>\n

Eriko Tsuchi said Mochi, her border collie-Jack Russell mix, would happily spend all day at the park, and she echoed Chow’s words about community.<\/p>\n

“It’s a good way to, like, meet people,” she said. “It just kind of brings the community together.”<\/p>\n

Gillingham also used the event to praise Lukes, who’s not running for re-election in October, saying her decision not to run is “a huge loss for this community.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-780660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}