It’s a common enough sight in the large, securely enclosed dog park: let off their leads and given a licence to play, small dogs and big dogs racing up to one another, gleefully wagging their tails, the bold ones attempting a judicious sniff of their new acquaintance’s most intimate body parts, the young ones embarking on a “zoomie” together around the perimeter.
“I’ve seen German shepherds playing with jack russells, huskies playing with miniature schnauzers, lurchers and rottweilers playing with bichons and cockapoos,” said Pat Heard, a dog charity worker who recently persuaded her local council to create one of the UK’s first public dog parks in her home town of Cramlington, Northumberland.
