I have just come home from my last-ever visit to Bar K Dog Bar, a park that, for almost three years, had become the second home for me, Bear, Sweet Pea, and countless other canines and their humans. Sadly, it wasn’t for one last run through the splash pad, one more Diet Coke in the bar, or even one final game of Singo, which I hosted on Friday evenings. It was to pick up that Singo equipment and take one final look at the closed doors of a place that had come to mean so much to so many.

When ...