Parks 4 Paws Foundation's primary focus is dog enrichment and revitalizing dog parks creating mentally stimulating, and engaging
“Activity Parks for Dogs” in Calgary Alberta.
Adding things to the park like an agility course, obstacle logs, hills with tunnels, balance beams, tug toys and loads of natural sniffy areas filled with trees, natural plants, bushes, and mulch beds with rocks, offers the owners a unique opportunity to engage with their dogs in challenging and fulfilling ways.
These additions to the park create a more fun and exciting environment and training opportunities for the dog, leaving them tired and happy in more than just a physical way, providing balance to all of your dogs needs.

One of the most noticeable benefits to having access to these activities is that they are an easy re-direct of the dogs energy, mind and focus when needed. With more activities and fun engaging things to do, they are no longer solely focused on physical play with other dogs.
Too much over stimulating, physical play, can lead to negative encounters between dogs,
which then becomes an unsafe park for both dog and owner.
These separate areas within the park allows the owners to re-direct their dog, breaking the focus and excitement over the other dog,
gives space, and calms them down before re-engaging with the other dogs in the park.

Having access to these activities inside of a dog park, helps socialize dogs safely and desensitizes them to having other dogs around
and not needing to meet right away, or be in the other dog's space the entire visit to the park.
While play with other dogs is important, learning based play in a park is beneficial. In a flat empty field, running only works a small portion of the dog's muscles and not its mind. The obstacles encourages fair play, they provide natural breaks during chase, and fun mental games for dogs trying to outwit their playmate around the obstacles.
As an added bonus, everything is designed to get the dogs using muscles in different ways, exhausting them from head to toe, making for a much more fulfilled and happy dog sleeping at your feet!