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08 Jul 10

Huntington Town voted Most pet frien ...

By Nancy E. Hassel, LIPetPlace.com

Huntington Town voted Most pet friendly

In a recent 2-week long poll taken by LIPetPlace.com asking, “What Town do you think is the most Pet Friendly on Long Island?” The Town of Huntington beat out Smithtown and Islip by one vote as being the most pet friendly. While every town was voted for in Suffolk, Babylon surprisingly coming last place, in Nassau only the Town of Oyster Bay, and City of Long Beach got any votes, and all the other Nassau towns didn’t get any – kind of tells you something doesn’t it. It would be great to see every town on Long Island get voted for as being most pet friendly, but as many of you reading this know, it’s not always the case. Growing up in Suffolk county and having dogs, cats, and riding horses, it never even occurred to me that a town or village could be unfriendly towards pet owners, you were pretty much allowed to go anywhere with your pet. Today, there are places that we can no longer go to with our pets, but usually it’s because of an endangered species, (like at certain beaches that used to be more dog friendly), or there are just more restrictions as we get more crowded.

Still today, we are fortunate in Suffolk vs. Nassau to be in a more pet friendly county. Although there are hidden gems in Nassau that not a lot of people know about. In the coming months some of those spots will be explored and rated on LIPetPlace.com. But in the meantime what would you like to see your Town or Village do, to be more pet friendly? How can you help government officials to do so?

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