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Charlie loves Halifax and he wants it to be dog friendly!

 

Charlie loves Halifax and he wants it to be dog friendly! This site is your guide for the urban dog and their owners in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. We have scoured the city looking for the best places to take your dog shopping with you, where all the off-leash and best on-leash parks are, what are ways to connect with other local dog owners, how to find the best resources locally for you and your dog.

 

As well - if you are looking for dog related things to do with your dog - I have a blog where I regularly post upcoming events - you may just have to scroll down a bit to get through some posts where I've posted silly photos of Charlie and my other dogs - but every couple of weeks at least I post upcoming events that are going on locally that are going on - the blog is at http://dogkisser.blogspot.com/ - so go check that out regularly if you want to know what's going on!

 

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This is Sassy - is she not the cutest thing you've ever seen? I added her to my family in July 2012 - she came from New Glasgow and is a senior bichon - she's deaf and has no teeth - but she has got a lot of SASS - beautiful eyes!

This is  Bubby and Sidney - they came to me at separate times - June 2011 and March 2012 - but they are biological brothers from the same puppy mill in Cape Breton - so they have some behavioural and health issues unfortunately - they are also bichon frises - and they are physically very beautiful - you'll be seeing a lot of them on this website in the coming years - they were born in November 2010 so they're just puppies!

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I have updated the building supplies page, the miscellaneous stores page, the pet store page, the pet food page, the groomers page,  doggy day care and dog walker page - so check them out if you're looking for those services - and I'm so happy to update the pet store page because Pet's Unlimited has stopped selling puppies!

Announcing the newest page on the website!!!  The best page to come along in a long time - "The Index of Resources and Businesses Listed on the Charlie loves Halifax website" - it's the page to go to when you can't find that link that you know you've seen here before - but you can't remember which page you saw it on - the Index page lists every business and resource that I have listed on every web page - and links back to the web page it's talked about at.  It's the best new page to come to the web site - and it only took me eight years to make it - yay!!  You can find it at http://charlieloveshalifax.ca/businesses.html

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What makes the Halifax Regional Municipality a dog friendly city to you?  To me it's the fact that I believe there's enough space for everyone - you can walk or drive for a few minutes and be in a place where there's absolutely no one around you - you and your dog can have all the fun you want all by yourself.  And if you want to be around other like minded people - all you have to do is go to one of our many parks - most of which are on-leash parks - but there's still a ton of parks we can go to.  There's also a ton of organized events for us to be able to spend time with our dogs.  It just seems that bureaucrats at city hall that don't want to spend one red cent of our tax dollars on dog recreation activities - like properly set up off-leash parks.

 

It's too bad - maybe someday someone will decide that they've had enough and seek city office - and we'll have "someone on our side at city hall.   That would be fabulous!  If you have some view that you'd like to share - email me at dogkisser@gmail.com

 

If you're interested in dog politics - you might want to go read the website "Advocates for Responsible Pet Ownership" in Nova Scotia - some of the things that are said might make sense to you.


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I have been busy and gone in and updated a bunch of pages on the website and added a lot of new dog friendly businesses! Yay!  The bureaucrats at HRM's city hall may not like dogs or tax paying dog owners - but people who have to pay their bills - the business owners of Halifax - certainly realize that dog owners are a niche audience worth catering to!

So tonight I got to add new stores to the site like the Telus store over in Dartmouth Crossing, Cleve's in Bayer's Lake, the "Detergency" - a pet friendly laundromat in the middle of Halifax - a person who practices "emotional freedom technique" on both humans and dogs, I got to add in a new pet sitter , new local online pet store, new dog walker, and a new obedience trainer - and why is that?  Because we NEED them! 

There are SO MANY dogs and dog owners in the HRM - and we love our dogs and are willing to spend money on them.  So feel free to spend as much time as you want with your canine life companion - there are plenty of places out there who are willing to let you spend your money in their stores!

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The best thing I ever did was to go out and get a puppy (from a local rescue!) - we have been having the best time getting out to all the off leash parks and beaches and learning about socialization and all the things that puppies are supposed to learn.  Now we are heading into canine adolescence - the teenage years - so if you're out and about - and you see a middle aged woman pulling out her hair - and the most beautiful little bichon frise being absolutely disobedient - you'll know that you've come upon the author or the Charlie loves Halifax website! One of the best things about the HRM that I've never talked about on this website before are all the absolutely fantabulous ON-LEASH walking possibilities with the whole Walking trail system that HRM has developed.  It's amazing what the city has developed with the Chain of Lakes Trail, the Mainland North Linear Parkway, the McIntosh Run Community Trail - and literally, dozens of others. You can check them all out on the HRM's website at http://www.halifax.ca/rec/Walking.html Our dogs need every flavour of experience to have a complete and filled life - and that includes lots of on-leash, as well as off-leash walks - on leash walks teach impulse control and get them to focus on the people they love the most - us - which is a super reason right there to get off the couch!


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If you have any local events for dogs - email me at dogkisser@gmail.com  and I'll put them on the site so we can all share the love!  Look at the right hand sidebar on this page for local events coming up in the next couple months!


 

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We also have a huge links page that lists all the local rescues for when you're looking to add to your family or looking for your next canine life companion. We have tips on what to do when your dog isn't dog friendly - and places to take your dog if they don't get along with other dogs - we also have a page to find out if you've got a dog friendly dog based on what the HRM Animal Control Services thinks.

 

If you're looking for a pet friendly apartment - one of the only places locally to get information is on my pet friendly apartment page - that's at http://charlieloveshalifax.ca/apartments.html - and if you have a pet friendly apartment to list - you can do that on the "Charlie loves Halifax" facebook page - which is at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=14390&uid=191920607416 - I have gotten a couple of neat emails lately about this about new websites that  have popped up that will list pet friendly options when you're searching for apartments - one really good one is called "Rent Donkey" you should check out - it's at http://www.rentdonkey.ca/ - they also  have a facebook page too! - there are also a couple other websites that are also helpful - http://halifaxrentals.com/ and http://www.petzooma.com/

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 I have updated my page Dog Friendly Pet Stores in the HRM - if you shop politically - you've got to check out this page!!

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Some other pages on this site!

Why this website exists

 

What to do when your dog isn't dog friendly

 

Tips for owners of dog friendly businesses

 

Local fun things to do with your dog!

 

Is your dog dog friendly?

 

Tips for a benevolent alpha


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"Charlie Loves Halifax" was started back in 2002 as a way to spend more time with my once in a lifetime dog Charlie - who you see here on the left - a lab/sheltie mix who I was lucky to get from the NS SPCA in 1989.  It's my belief that well socialized, well mannered dogs should be able to just about anywhere that we go - and this website is a way for us as dog owners in the HRM to facilitate that. 

When Charlie was younger I used to take him everywhere that I went - I called him my 100 pound pocket dog - and when he got older - I took my bichon mix Buttercup with me - who you'll also see everywhere on this website.

I'm very sad to say that in June, 2011 I lost Charlie to old age - as well as the love of his life Daisy, so this website is now a tribute to them.

It doesn't matter the size of the dog - they all want to spend as much time with us as possible - and that's what this site is about - being able to take them with us on our errands, going shopping - finding the best resources - being able to give our money to businesses that cater to our demographic - and giving our dogs the best quality of life that we can.  And it all started with my soulmate Charlie.  Everyone who comes to this website has had a "Charlie" in their life - and it's to these dogs that this website is dedicated.

 

Charlie loves Halifax has been on the internet since May of 2002 and has had over 1,000,000 hits from local dog lovers since then.  It is a site maintained completely and solely by one (1) person and her dogs completely and utterly for her own pleasure and her personal beliefs about how she would like the Halifax Regional Municipality to become more dog friendly, and what she believes to be a lovely view of what the world is, and how what it can become.  If you agree with her view of this dog-centric world - that is super-fant-abulous.  If you don't - that is too bad, but that is your opinion - just as everything on this website is - the opinion and beliefs of one person.  If you believe them to be anything more than that - you have been mis-informed and have given me an importance anyone would lust after, but I certainly do not covet.  Thanks for reading....

 
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