Finger Lakes Dog Park

11/07/2026

We now have 12 motion sensor lights in the park for those visits after 4pm. And a touch light will be installed in the restroom this weekend.

11/02/2026

Zeke thought the attached list might be helpful. As we come to this season of giving you'll also find food donation boxes around the county to drop off donation items for both shelter animals and our pet food pantry! Thank you for your generosity!

11/02/2026

This year, in lieu of our annual canine coat drive, we have donated gift certificates to the NYS Police K-9 Paws for Laws Fundraiser (in May) and the upcoming Schuyler County Humane Society Auction. Be sure to check out all their auction items and support a great cause.

Silent auction 'Paws for a Cause Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

10/31/2026

10/30/2026

A great man. Miss him already. 💔

10/26/2026

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Cheryl has taken school pictures in one southern Missouri county for 34 years. She's 68, and she still shoots every class at the small elementary school where she started kindergarten. Last October, two weeks before picture day, she adopted a 12-year-old hound from the county shelter. Then she saw the dog's listing photo, a blurry shot from intake day, and looked at the rest. Most of those old dogs had sat online for months without a single call.

The next morning she called the shelter. She asked for the shelter's calmest old dogs, one for every kindergartner, and offered each family a free picture with the dog.

On picture day the shelter brought 31 dogs in two vans, each one 8 or older and wearing a fresh bandana. Volunteers lined the dogs up on blankets along the gym wall.

A girl named Kinsley sat cross-legged with a 14-year-old basset. The dog leaned so hard against her that it took four tries to get the shot. Then there was a boy who'd cried at the gym door. He stopped when an old Lab mix put a big head in his lap.

Cheryl took her time. She talked to every kid and every dog before each shot, and the line backed up into the hallway. One teacher asked for a picture too, and went home that week with a 10-year-old terrier mix.

The order forms went home in backpacks the next week with both pictures on them. Under each dog's photo the shelter had printed the dog's name and one line: still waiting.

Parents called the shelter before they called the school. One grandfather drove two hours to see the basset in person. Some wrote the dog's name right on the order form, next to the print package they wanted. Before Thanksgiving, 24 of the 31 families had adopted the dog from their child's picture.

The shelter uses Cheryl's photos on its website now, for every dog over 7.

In this year's yearbook the kindergarten pages show 31 kids in rows with 31 old dogs. Cheryl says it's the only class picture she's ever taken where nobody looked at the camera.