Responsible Unleashed Fun for Fido

Responsible Unleashed Fun for Fido

Our Organization

RUFF is a 501(c) 3nonprofit organization in Arlington, Texas. The members were brought together by the mutual enjoyment of exercising with their dog companions offleash. The group was formed to give voice to the shared feelings that public park spaces are for the benefit of all citizens and for us that means space to play, walk, jog, and interact with our canine pals offleash.

Our Goal

Our first goal is the designation of areas within Arlington where responsible dog owners can legally take their dogs and enjoy themselves while exercising and socializing their dog. You can help by joining or volunteering.

Our Guiding Belief

We believe that responsible dog guardians need a place where they can legally take their dogs offleash. Currently people throughout Arlington are taking their dogs out and letting them run offleash in all of our parks and public areas. The current situation allows many undesirable behaviors and misconceptions of offleash dog areas to persist.
We believe that with some special rules, well-defined boundaries, and a cooperative citizen group to help with education, enforcement, maintenance, fund raising and other necessary tasks offleash areas can be made available without much initial public expense.
We believe that RUFF is the cooperative citizen group that can make dog parks happen and that can speak out on behalf of responsible pet guardians.
We believe that an organization centered on meeting the needs of responsible pet guardians will decrease the number of surrendered dogs in Tarrant County and increase the number of adoptions.

Officers

President: Bonnie Bowman
Vice President: Murray Scheibe
Secretary: Kathy Cox
Treasurer: Brad Gray

Board Members:
Ronald Corbin, Ronnie Scheibe, Leslie Storey, Ann Trenton