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Does Your Dog Play Well With Others?

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Does Your Dog Play Well With Others?

Evanston, Il

If no one told you it was a lake, the 118 by 307 mile Lake Michigan could be an ocean. Standing on the beach, you'll never see the sides--or the other shore. In fact the glimmering mass--which today makes you think of Van Gogh-y adjectives like "cobalt" and "azure"--stretches as wide as the sky itself for which it serves as a kind of mirror image.

If anyone doubts that Evanston loves its dogs, consider this: its dog beach is bigger than some of its "people beaches." It's better located, next to the boat launch and snack shop and flanked by a pier and boulders which serve as an "observation decks."

Like Evanston's other beaches--and adjacent Northwestern University's too--the dog beach is not free. But it is open from May through October and, thanks to dogs' oblivion to cold water, you will probably get your $50 worth.

Like Seattle's Puget Sound, Lake Michigan is "polar bear-friendly" and has a reputation for being too cold too swim. This year in late August it was a disappointing 52 degrees versus the 90 degree air temperature which makes a dip so appealing.

But today the water is 72 degrees and the air is 78 degrees--a perfect ratio and a perfect waste since the people beach is closed for the summer and dogs will swim even when the water is 40.

Today about 20 dogs, one to two owners each, romp on the beach. One is digging, one is sunning himself, two are face-to-face on their "elbows" trying to decide, now that they'll be friends, who will chase whom. But most are engaged in the game known as: Throw It Again, Daddy.

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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random (more...)
 

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