SEQUIM – Her name is Rigby, like Eleanor from the Beatles song.
She’s done some waiting by the window.
But she knows, ahh, where all the lonely people do belong: at the just-mowed, more-than-an-acre Sequim Dog Park.
The fenced field, nearly a year in the planning, will have its opening bash from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 7.
Mayor Walt Schubert and park planner David Brown could have planned a ribbon-cutting. But that wouldn’t be right.
No, they’re going to have a grand leash-cutting, to inspire dogs like Rigby.
“She can’t wait. She loves every dog. She loves every person,” said Rigby’s owner, Lynne Angeloro of Discovery Bay.
The young Siberian husky met Janos, a mop-coated Hungarian Komondor, at a Sequim Dog Park Pals get-together.
“She was freaked out,” said Angeloro, a member of the Pals board of directors.
Then Margaret Preston, Janos’ owner, pushed the thick tendrils of fur from his face.
Once Rigby could see his friendly eyes, the two could commence to frolic.
“They’ve had a ball ever since,” Angeloro said.
