‘Paws for a Cause’ charity event planned April 29 at dog park
The second-annual “Paws for a Cause” Pet Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at Clinton’s Carden Farm Dog Park.
This event includes a long list of activities for pets and their owners at the facility at 410 Riverview Drive in South Clinton.
Among the activities will be K-9 demonstrations, vendor booths, food trucks, adoptable pets from local shelters and rescues, and affordable vaccinations and microchip insertions, according to an announcement by the sponsors.
Joining the city of Clinton in sponsoring the event will be the Anderson County Animal Rescue Foundation.
Proceeds from the events will be used to help “animals in need from our community,” the sponsors said. That includes veterinary care, pet food and other forms of pet help.
Among scheduled events will be a Clinton Police Department K-9 exhibition, along with pet first aid and CPR demonstrations.
The dog park in South Clinton officially opened in November 2021, and the first Pet Expo was held last April in conjunction with a grand-opening celebration for the park.
It sits off Carden Farm Road on land along the Clinch River that the city obtained from the Tennessee Valley Authority more than two decades ago.
The park has fenced areas of about three acres for large dogs and two acres for small dogs. A road was built leading into the paved parking lot at the park’s entrance.
Clinton received the site — a 17-acre tract — in a trade from TVA, and the dog park itself was mostly paid for by a $25,000 grant from the Randy Boyd Foundation in Knoxville.
A disc golf course also has been built on the property since the dog park opened.
Each of the doggie areas has a small shelter with benches and sheet-metal roofs for shade, and some trees were planted “for natural shade.”
Part of the park area had been used for years by the city as the launch site for fireworks shows on Independence Day and other special times.
Eventually, walking trails will go around the entire 17 acres, and will have a connector to the dog park area, Clinton Recreation Director Jason Brown said.
Part of the trail will follow the riverbank.
There are two benches for the dog park that were donated by the city’s 4-H clubs, which did a bottle-cap project that resulted in them getting the benches, made of recycled plastic, from a company in Indiana.