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By pawlitico
Hey, dog buddies, get your humans to take you out to the ballgame!
This year's annual Dog Days of Summer baseball game will be San Francisco Giants vs. San Diego Padres. It's on Saturday, August 23, 2008, at AT&T Park San Francisco.
Advanced Dog Zone registration is necessary!
Look what dogs will get to do: Be in a doggy costume contest, parade around the field, and take home a doggy souvenir that's designed especially for the day. Woofin awesome!
A portion of the Dog Days Giants game ticket proceeds will benefit the San Francisco SPCA.
Humans, paw-leeze read the following Dog Days Park Rules, Recommendations & Info.
- Any participating dog must be at least 6 months old.
- Only one dog per human adult, and no dogs in heat, please!
- All dogs MUST have ID Tags and current rabies vaccination.
- The Park reserves the right to refuse entry to any dog.
- Waiver forms must be completed before entering the ballpark.
- All dogs must be kept on leash at all times.
- Don't bring a dog who's unpredictable in crowds, with other dogs, or with strangers.
- Use good judgment regarding dog temperament so event will be enjoyable for all.
- Note that dogs and owners will be restricted to a certain area within the ballpark.
- Please pick up after your dog. Be courteous and responsible.
A veterinarian will be on hand in case of an injury or emergency.
Remember, you've got to get your Dog Zone tickets in advance. This is true even if you're a human with season tickets. It's easy. Go to the SF Giants website. Buy a ticket and also paw out the registration form.
Enjoy those hot dogs at the game.
The 4th of July holiday isn't over for this dog. I need more picnics and food. I need hot dogs — not the kind that the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council says Americans eat 150 million of every July 4th. I need Franktitude salmon dogs on whole-grain buns. Dog-ma can have the pickles.
Dream on. I can't have Franktitude dogs from Florida. I'm into the local food thing. I'm a REGIONAVORE.
Not a locavore. Locavorism, started in San Francisco, is about drawing the line at 100 miles food-wise — eating only foods grown or harvested within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco. This means you can mostly forget wild salmon. And no more Rogue or Deschutes ales, you guys. Why do locavores think that the San Francisco Bay Area is an economically sustainable bioregion? . . .
In Sonoma County, we have an upscale green grocer who's advertising "Eat 150." Just nudge the locavore line and resize our map. Woof? I already eat local farm market veggies, local cage-free eggs, and local poultry. My dog-ma eats other local stuff, too, like local honey and Redwood Hill Farm goat milk yogurt and cheese.
But let's not be loca-loco. Would you disregard our interdependence with all dogs and humans and other living creatures — including fish and trees — in the greater Pacific Bioregion? You know it's 650 miles to Portland, another 175 to Seattle, and yet another 1,100 miles to Ketchikan. You try telling folks in Alaska they'd better relocate down here 'cuz you don't support trade with them anymore. And tell your friends in, say, Seattle or Portland that you don't support their food entrepreneurialism either. . . . So the heck with the fishing industry, the heck with regional trade altogether?
I'm not going to take my paw and redraw the line again here. Being frank, I'm just going to mention a reasonable regional framework for green food trade. Think of our eating community as a socioeconomic bioregion. Think of it as an adaptation of a natural bioregion extending from Baja to Alaska and including coastal lands and rivers and off-shore waters of the Pacific. This is a concept akin to Salmon Nation: our boundaries defined as "anywhere Pacific salmon have ever run."
Quoting from Salmon Nation: "In search of a regional icon — or of a single indicator by which to measure regional health — one could hardly do better. Not only do 137 species depend on salmon as part of their diets, the landscape itself is nourished by them. 'The forest raises the salmon,' writes Richard Manning in his essay The Forests that Fish Built, 'but the salmon also raise the forest. This mutual dependence is the very definition of community, and in the end, the heart of the matter.'"
The heart of the matter. Supporting low-carbon footprint trade without leaving the regional little guys out in the cold. Pass the locally-grown mustard for my nutritious Wild Salmon Club sandwich. Hot diggity dog.
Advanced Dog Zone registration is necessary!
