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Fifth Avenue Veterinary Specialists
1 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011
212-924-3311
24-hour staffing: 24 hours/day, 7days/week, 365 days/year


Specialists are available on an appointment basis to see your pet as a referral from your veterinarian. They have an excellent team of specialists who are able to provide a comprehensive set of speciality services.

Their doors are always open and the hospital is always staffed with a doctor capable of handling any emergency situation with your pet. You may call ahead or just come in with your pet depending on the seriousness of the emergency.

Dog Walking Rules In Prospect Park

Prospect Park is a dog's paradise, with wide-open spaces to roam. We have made the Park even more dog-friendly by designating off-leash hours and areas, and creating the Long Meadow Dog Beach at the Pools. Off-leash hours have been granted by a special privilege, and to preserve this privilege we ask that you keep dogs leashed at all other times. Dogs should not be off-leash during off-leash hours if they are not responsive to voice command. During regular hours and in non-off-leash locations, please be aware that there is a $100 fine for an unleashed dog summons.

 

Only dogs are allowed to swim at Dog Beach, and they must be leashed except at off-leash hours. The Dog Beach is located near the Long Meadow ballfields, most easily accessible from the 9th Street entrance to the Park. See Long Meadow, Nethermead and Peninsula pages for directions.

 Dog Walking Guidelines


NYC law requires dogs to be on a leash 6 feet or shorter at all times. Off leash hours have been granted in Prospect Park under a special privilege. To protect the privilege please observe the following off-leash hours and locations, and use a leash at all other times and places.


Off-Leash Hours


April 1 to October 31
· 9 p.m.- 9 a.m.: Long Meadow, Nethermead and Peninsula
· 5 - 9 p.m. Monday through Friday only: Nethermead

November 1 to March 31
· 5 - 9 a.m.: Long Meadow, Nethermead and Peninsula

Owners must be in control of their dogs at all times.

Please dispose of dog waste properly.

Dogs are never allowed in playgrounds, on bridle paths, or on ballfields when a game is in progress.

Do not allow dogs to dig - holes create trip hazards.

To protect wildlife habitats, dogs must always be leashed and stay on paths in wooded areas.

At Dog Beach (see Map), dogs must be leashed except during the above Long Meadow off-leash hours. Caution: the water at Dog Beach becomes deep very fast.
Fines for violating these rules start at $100.


Look for rule cards on dog walking, barbecuing and other activities at Visitor Center at the Boathouse, Litchfield Villa or Wollman Rink, or call (718) 965-8951.


 

Get The Facts:
What’s Really in Pet Food

Plump whole chickens, choice cuts of beef, fresh grains, and all the wholesome nutrition your dog or cat will ever need.

These are the images pet food manufacturers promulgate through the media and advertising. This is what the $11 billion per year U.S. pet food industry wants consumers to believe they are buying when they purchase their products.
This report explores the differences between what consumers think they are buying and what they are actually getting. It focuses in very general terms on the most visible name brands — the pet food labels that are mass-distributed to supermarkets and discount stores — but there are many highly respected brands that may be guilty of the same offenses.

What most consumers don’t know is that the pet food industry is an extension of the human food and agriculture industries. Pet food provides a market for slaughterhouse offal, grains considered “unfit for human consumption,” and similar waste products to be turned into profit. This waste includes intestines, udders, esophagi, and possibly diseased and cancerous animal parts.

Three of the five major pet food companies in the United States are subsidiaries of major multinational companies: Nestlé (Alpo, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Mighty Dog, and Ralston Purina products such as Dog Chow, ProPlan, and Purina One), Heinz (9 Lives, Amore, Gravy Train, Kibbles-n-Bits, Nature’s Recipe), Colgate-Palmolive (Hill’s Science Diet Pet Food). Other leading companies include Procter & Gamble (Eukanuba and Iams), Mars (Kal Kan, Mealtime, Pedigree, Sheba, Waltham’s), and Nutro. From a business standpoint, multinational companies owning pet food manufacturing companies is an ideal relationship. The multinationals have increased bulk-purchasing power; those that make human food products have a captive market in which to capitalize on their waste products, and pet food divisions have a more reliable capital base and, in many cases, a convenient source of ingredients.

There are hundreds of different pet foods available in this country. And while many of the foods on the market are similar, not all of the pet food manufacturing companies use poor quality or potentially dangerous ingredients.

Ingredients

Although the purchase price of pet food does not always determine whether a pet food is good or bad, the price is often a good indicator of quality. It would be impossible for a company that sells a generic brand of dog food at $9.95 for a 40-lb. bag to use quality protein and grain in its food. The cost of purchasing quality ingredients would be much higher than the selling price. The protein used in pet food comes from a variety of sources. When cattle, swine, chickens, lambs, or other animals are slaughtered, the choice cuts such as lean muscle tissue are trimmed away from the carcass for human consumption. However, about 50% of every food-producing animal does not get used in human foods. Whatever remains of the carcass — bones, blood, intestines, lungs, ligaments, and almost all the other parts not generally consumed by humans — is used in pet food, animal feed, and other products. These “other parts” are known as “by-products,” “meat-and-bone-meal,” or similar names on pet food labels.

What Consumers Can Do

* Write or call pet food companies and the Pet Food Institute and express your concerns about commercial pet foods. Demand that manufacturers improve the quality of ingredients in their products.

* Print out a copy of this report for your veterinarian to further his or her knowledge about commercial pet food.

* Stop buying commercial pet food. Or if that is not possible, reduce the quantity of commercial pet food and supplement with fresh foods. Purchase one or more of the many books available on pet nutrition and make your own food. Be sure that a veterinarian or a nutritionist has checked the recipes to ensure that they are balanced and complete.

Who to Write

AAFCO Pet Food Committee
Dr. Rodney Noel — Chair
Office of Indiana State Chemist
Purdue University
1154 Biochemistry Building
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1154
www.aafco.org

FDA — Center for Veterinary Medicine
Sharon Benz
7500 Standish Place
Rockville, MD 20855
301-594-1728
www.cvm.fda.gov/

Pet Food Institute
2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
202-367-1120
Fax 202-367-2120

ASK YUFFIE
Who better to give advice to Urban Dogs than Yuffie, Brooklyn's incorrigible canine. She calls it as she sees it - especially when it comes to the foibles of human owners. Yuffie's motto: What? Let them know how smart we dogs really are? Never one to laze around the house more than twenty two hours a day, Yuffie also works as a Good Dog Foundation certified therapy dog at Park Slope's New York Methodist Hospital. She is a member in good standing of "FIDO," a local "Fellowship for the Interest of Dogs & Owners" Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY.
 

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