Riverview opens library for tails not tales
CBC
Riverview's newest library is going to the dogs — and they couldn't be happier.
On Thursday, Mason the brown border collie took his time browsing the offerings at the new stick library at Mill Creek Nature Park, before finally selecting a slender white birch.
He paraded it proudly — dropping it several times — before returning it like a very good boy.
The return of the stick did cost his owner Ash Arrowsmith a treat — or a few.
Arrowsmith, Riverview's community recreation co-ordinator, saw the idea online and worked with his team to bring a stick library to his town.
"The idea is that, you know, folks come in, if a dog's interested in grabbing a stick while they're walking on leash, they can take one and then hopefully they bring it back."
He said unlike other libraries, there are no penalties if dogs don't return the sticks on time — or at all. It's simply there to invite dogs and their owners to enhance their experience.
"It brings a smile to people's faces that are coming into the park and I think to the dogs as well."
Arrowsmith said his five-year-old daughter, like many children, loves to collect sticks. He hopes the kids visiting the park can also help with the re-stocking, he said.
"We kind of think that between the dogs and little people that are in the park, we think, it'll be, you know, fully stocked all the time."
Arrowsmith also suggests it helps in tick prevention, as a stocked library reduces the need for the canines to go off the trail, looking for a perfect stick.
Hope Trites said she saw the idea online and was thinking of installing a library in her front yard for her dog Ducky and others.
"It's a good way to meet your neighbours with dogs because they'll stop and grab something. So I think it's, I think it's great," said Trites.
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