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Back in April, the owners of Canine Fitness Center in Crownsville raised enough money to equip about half of Anne Arundel County’s 30 fire stations with oxygen masks for dogs.

Earlier this month, that effort paid off — or at least it did for Sadie, a six-pound toy fox terrier injured in a car crash.

Sadie was bleeding and apparently unconscious when rescuers from the Anne Arundel County Fire Department and the Odenton Volunteer Fire Department arrived. Rescuers managed to revive her with an adjustable oxygen mask designed to fit an animal’s snout. It was the first time the equipment was used to save the life of a pet, the fire department said.

“I think that them giving her oxygen as quickly as they did was the difference between life and death,” Beverly Sherman, 45, told the Baltimore Sun.

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    As we told you Aug. 22, and then again on Sept. 5,  Baltimore will soon be announcing construction plans for its first city-sponsored dog park, at Latrobe Park in Locust Point. The official announcement — there’ll be a press conference at the park — is now scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, October 10.
    It has been reported here that Mayor Sheila Dixon would like to see as many as four new dog parks in the city of Baltimore. While they have been a long time coming, and are still years in the future, I think the press conference might be a good time for dog owners, and dogs, to show their thanks.
    What if, say, 100 dogs showed up at the press conference, or 200 even, to show their appreciation for the city’s efforts to allow them some room to romp off leash?
    In addition to serving as a little reminder to the city’s elected officials that a lot of dogs live here — and that most of them have a registered voter or two as their caretakers — a mass turnout of dogs would get that message across to the rest of the city as well, assuming that the mainstream media (I can call it that now that I’ve left it) finally gets on to the story.
    Look at it as a mass thank you for finally recognizing the need — and a reminder that there are lots of other dogs and owners, including a good many around Patterson Park, that would like their dogs to have a place to run, too.

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