Dogs by Nature

PARKS

Combrink Park

Combrink Park is situated on the corner of Combrink Street and 33rd Avenue in Queenswood, Pretoria. This park scores full marks for being kept in excellent condition and the clean, neat lawn and many lush trees offer perfect picnic spots.

Combrink Park is completely fenced and has always been quiet on the times I’ve been there. By offering a variety of swings, a rocking horse and jungle gym, it’s the perfect venue for kiddies as well. Although it’s a relatively small park, it offers the dogs at least a good length of running space.

Some days when I feel too lazy to hit Lilly’s tennis ball for her, I just take a soccer ball along. This way she can keep herself entertained for hours. She’s also quite good at retrieving the ball if I kick it for her. Onlookers are always amazed by this.

This is a really quiet and picturesque park, even worth travelling for. It's also a great photo venue - while we were there we met a really cool photographer doing a couples' shoot. He approached us and commented on Lilly and Stitch's cool looks :-) Then he offered to do some portraits of them, how amazing is that! 

The only teeny tiny little annoying thing about Combrink park is that there are no tabs and the public bathrooms are permanently locked. 

Stitch is still too good to for chasing balls around and prefers exploring every possible garbage bin. Sometimes when Jean and I stand far apart and make turns calling him, he’ll run from the one person to the other, although this only lasts a short while. Check out Lilly and her ball:

Combrink park is quite hidden away - I read about it in a newspaper article on parks in the Pretoria Moot area. Driving directions are as follows: 

Follow Duncan (Jan Shoba) road until it becomes Gordon. Keep on with this road (crossing Stanza Bopape as well as well as Soutpansberg road) until it becomes Stead Avenue. As soon as you’ve passed Queens Corner shopping complex on the left (corner of Stead and Soutpansberg), take the first left (Briscoe Lane) and the first right (Newman Avenue, which becomes Combrink Street).