Downtown shops positioning out dog bowls in effort to end up being more pet-friendly
Published 12:10 am Tuesday, July 4, 2023
- One of Theresa Pitner’s dog bowls established beyond Skinny Wheels on West Innes Street. Skinny Wheels is among 35 shops that puts the dog bowls out front.
Downtown Salisbury has actually ended up being much more pet-friendly over the previous month thanks to Theresa Pitner, owner of dog training service Understanding Your Dog.
Starting in May, Pitner walked around to all of the shops downtown and began making a list of which ones enabled dogs within. What she discovered throughout her list-taking was that almost every business downtown is dog-friendly.
“It is amazing how many shops allow dogs in them. I would go into these stores and ask if they allowed dogs, and all of them would say ‘of course we do, you didn’t know that,’” said Pitner.
The just shops that informed her no were the ones that were required to reject dogs due to health factors, according to Pitner, locations such as the dining establishments, tattoo parlors and beauty salon.
What Pitner was dealing with was including outside dog bowls to every downtown store that would take one. She lost consciousness the water bowls to all of the businesses who said they enabled dogs, in overall giving out 35.
“Dogs bring people with them. If downtown is dog-friendly, that’s more people and customers that will go to those stores,” said Pitner.
Pitner idea of the concept due to the fact that she utilized to have a downtown place for her dog training business on East Council Street. While there, Pitner would have customers take their family pets on strolls through the location in order to help them fraternize other individuals and dogs.
“I noticed that a lot of bigger cities had stuff like this. So while I was having people walk their dogs through the town, I was thinking about how nice it would be if I could take some of my clients through the stores and not just socialize their dogs, but also introduce them to our businesses,” said Pitner.
While Pitner might have moved her business out of the East Council Street Location, her result on downtown’s pet-friendliness stays. A month after she started her task, all 35 businesses still fill the water bowls and leave them on the walkway on hot summer season days for passing dogs to pick up a beverage.
