General News
28 February, 2024
New dog exercise zones
SHAPING the region into a lifestyle destination of choice for furry friends, Cassowary Coast Regional Council has endorsed three additional dog-off-leash areas in Innisfail, Wongaling Beach and Tully Heads.
Following the success of five existing locations, the additional three will also allow dogs to be ‘off-leash’ in specified areas, under full control of their owners.
The new ‘off-leash’ locations are in Innisfail’s Wrights Park on Sherwood Street, Wongaling Beach’s Banfield Parade and Dickinson Street, with the final location being in Tully Heads, baetween the Carron Esplanade and Penning Park.
These new areas join the region’s existing ‘off-leash’ locations in Kurrimine Beach’s Boustead Park, Mission Beach’s Esplanade, South Mission Beach’s foreshore, Tully’s Widsoet Park, and Cardwell’s Coral Sea Park. A council spokesman said as dogs being off-leash could pose a possible risk, it was the owner’s responsibility to manage their dog and make sure that it was not a nuisance to other beach or park enjoyers, nearby residents or fellow dog owners.
He said that the new locations were a great addition to the region, and an overall valuable asset to the community.
“The opening of the new areas provides our region’s dogs an opportunity to run around in a large, open space,” he said.
“As well as being beneficial for the pets, the owners are also exercising, and receiving health and wellbeing benefits that fruit from this.”
The spokesman said the community also had responsibility for these areas, with the conditions being that owners must be able to manage their pets. “Although the new and existing dog-off-leash areas come with such extraordinary benefits, these benefits, like everything, come with a risk,” he said.
