Macon Dog Park

For this lab we walked to the Macon Dog Park which is only a few blocks away from campus. Here we took samples of the water from the river that will eventually flow into the Ocumulgee. We are seeing how much fecal matter there is by putting it into a machine that keeps it at 44.5 degrees Celsius, which is the same temperature as your stomach/intestines. We also discussed some of the positives and negatives that come with a dog park.
Personally, I think it's a good thing to have a dog park in a community. It allows for people with a common interest to meet new people, as well as give their animal some much needed exercise in most cases. It also is something that can be aesthetically pleasing to a community. If there is just a barren field or possibly something that wasn't very good, a dog park could be a good way to spruce up the area surrounding a community. Overall, the positives far outweigh the possible negatives that dog parks bring to a community as a whole.