Serving Brooklyn's Off-Leash Community
Dog Related Events...
Next Coffee Bark, Saturday, February 4th, 2012 -
Selling of the 2012 FIDO Calendars/FIDO Members in good standing get one FREE.
FIDO Coffee Bark
First Saturday Of Every Month...
Rain, sleet, snow (sorry - snow can get the best of us sometime) or shine, FIDO in Prospect Park sets up a table full of goodies on the first Saturday of every month. Look for coffee, pastries, dog biscuits as well as relevant information pertaining to off-leash activities and issues. And it's all FREE!Take Your Pick! This.....
Or This.....
In the Long Meadow below the Picnic House
Hours: 7 set up - 9 a.m.
Enter Prospect Park at 9th Street
Walk straight in until you come to the ball fields (on right)
Make a left along the meadow.
Or enter at the Villa (PPW & 4th St)
Go through parking lot and out the back across Inner Drive
Picnic House is right there.
You'll see the Fido banner and crowd clustered by a brick building.
Picnic House bath rooms open at 8 a.m.!What’s Coffee Bark?
As a regular monthly event, Coffee Bark stands as a shining example of all that is great about off-leash recreation in City parks. Over the course of our 2 hour event, many of the hundreds of dogs and their people who take advantage of the Long Meadow, stop by for coffee and chat about the concerns of the day. This is our way of making contact with each and every dog and owner and to let them know what FIDO is all about.
With dozens of dogs and people scattered from Grand Army Plaza to the 9th Street Ball fields, the Long Meadow is an amazing sight. People even show up at 7 a.m. from as far away as Western Massachusetts! And at 9 am, everyone leashes up and goes home!
You got to see it to believe it!
Note: Though this event is extremely popular with canine & owner alike, it may not be for everyone. Use common sense!
We can always use volunteers especially to help wrap up the morning. A big thanks to our Coffee Bark set-up regulars: Steve Stein, coffee maker; Anthony Chiappelloni; Stuart Seit, table wrangler; Aunt Betty, event organizer & strudlemaker; Pat Mullins, Lynn Radov, Kate Willever; Garry Osgood, membership and Chris Hubbard, table custodian.
We welcome Coffee Bark Sponsors...
Sponsoring Coffee Bark not only allows us to maintain this twelve year old monthly tradition, it allows you to personally interact with several hundred dog owners and their families. Sponsoring a Coffee Bar costs $150. We will publicize that you will be there to answer questions through an e-mail database of over 600 people. And we can post signs around the table the day of but you are welcome to post your own. We do ask that you bring a card table of your own since the coffee/pastry/dog biscuit tables tend to be chaos!Long term monthly sponsors are entitled to exclusive sponsorship in their category. At present we have one regular monthly sponsor - a real estate person specializing in dog friendly apartments. Other categories are welcome. In reality it would be a co-sponsorship but the price remains the same for all parties - $150.
E-mail bob@exitfive.com for more details
Upcoming Dog-Centric Events..
FIDO Seasonal Events
FIDO Memorial Service For our Departed Dogs...
Saturday, Mid May.
8 a.m.
In the Long Meadow by the newly planted FIDO Memorial Tree
By the Pools below the Picnic House Come share pictures, memories, the reading of names, or even a moment of silence for those departed canines who meant so much to us. You can even list your departed pet with FIDO.
See In Memoriam for more information.
Pupnic
FIDO’s Summer Pot Luck Picnic for Pooches & Their People
*Pupnic 2010 pictures
When: Always the last Friday of June (June 24th, 2011)
Where: Prospect Park’s Nethermead
Time: 5 p.m. until dusk
Please bring Some Food
While we will have a few restaurant donations on hand, we ask that dog owners help out by bringing something as well. FIDO will provide beverages, paper goods, plastic ware, trash bags, water and biscuits for the dogs.
Our pot-luck affair will also feature the FIDO Mid-Summer Games in which canine contestants vie to see who can catch the most dog biscuits; who gives the most licks per minute; biggest/smallest foot/ears; plus stupid dog tricks. Agility equipment should be on hand for additional fun. Always the last Friday in June!
We will have a permit designated off-leash areaBlessing of the Animals
October Coffee Bark
A Saturday - 8 a.m.In the Long Meadow below the picnic house. Sinners welcome!
FIDO Bark! The Herald Angels Sing...
Our December Howl-a-Day Gathering
Where: Long Meadow beside the Picnic House
When: Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Time: 8 am to 10 am
NOTE: We have a permit for extended off-leash until 10 am in the immediate vacinity of the event.
Brooklyn dog owners: bring your canine companions and come celebrate the holidays at a morning gathering with FIDO In Prospect Park. Join us for song, coffee& hot chocolate, and hot mulled cider. Santa will hand out chew bones and treats. Deck your dogs in festive attire and gather around for a holiday sing-a-long of your holiday favorites. Fido will provide songbooks with dog-centric lyrics
See this year's pix - Bark! The Herald Angels Sing 2011See last year's pix - Bark! The Herald Angels Sing 2010
Don't Forget To Visit The Dog Beach
In the Long Meadow below the Ball Fields
Off-leash hours only!
Prospect Park's Dog Beach
Prospect Park Alliance Park Events
See their website at: www.prospectpark.orgYou Got To Have Park
Annual Event
Happenings including cleanup/fundraising
May - all dayWho We Are...
The Prospect Park Alliance is a public/private partnership with the City of New York, which, through fundraising and advocacy, furthers the restoration and preservation of Prospect Park and the development of the Park as a resource for the people of New York City. The Alliance has been active in the transformation of Prospect Park into one of the most sought-after destinations in all of New York City. The Alliance was instrumental in the restoration of the 1912 Coney Island-style Carousel, transformation of Lefferts Homestead into the first children's historic house museum in the United States, renovation of the Park's playgrounds, and the capital campaign to save Brooklyn's last forest - a restoration of 150 acres of ailing woodlands in the Park.Educational Programs...
In addition, the Prospect Park Alliance sponsors a comprehensive educational program emphasizing wildlife and nature as found in Prospect Park both through outreach in-school and parkside workshops - located at the Audubon Center at the Boat House.
Boat Tours...
During the warmer months, look for the electric boat tour along the Lullwaters and the lake, leaving from the Boathouse every twenty minutes or so - not to be missed!
