Leashes at dusk
Royal Oak calls itself the City of Trees, and a dog walk down Main Street or over toward Vinsetta Park and Northwood is half the appeal of living here. Pembroke and the blocks around downtown are the same story, with leashes out most evenings. Near the Detroit Zoo, the neighborhoods can hear the peacocks. On market mornings, plenty of dogs wait outside the Royal Oak Farmers Market on 11 Mile while their people shop. Memorial Park has ball diamonds and Cummingston Park is left wild on purpose. Mark Twain Park Dog Park, with its trail and dog run off Campbell Road, is where the off-leash crowd goes when the backyard isn't enough.
What a yard here means
All that walking is great for the dog. It's less great for the yard. A dog that's out and about in Royal Oak all week still comes home to do its business in the same eight-hundred square feet of grass, and a yard near Downtown or Pembroke doesn't get any bigger just because the dog's more active. The yard is the one Royal Oak errand nobody signs up for, so it can have its own day.
Royal Oak visit day
Pick whichever day lands on your schedule, and it stays your day all year. The visit covers the whole yard, not just what shows from the porch, behind the bushes and along the fence too. Everything is bagged and sealed and leaves the property, so there's nothing for you or the dog to find later. On weekly and twice-a-week memberships, January adds your walkways and steps, shoveled and salted after a snow, so the walk to Memorial Park stays clear too.
Hand off
Love the dog, hand off the cleanup. Email yourself the price, or start with a free first cleanup.
Gutters and windows? Groundkeep does home upkeep in Royal Oak too.
