FOXBORO, February 24, 2008 - Dogs are finally having their day.

Parks where they can romp and run unleashed with canine consorts while their owners yip and yap with each other have popped up in area towns like Foxboro, Sharon and Medway and are being planned in Attleboro and Somerset.

While the park in Foxboro has been backed into a legal doghouse by neighbors, the parks are popular in general and seem to represent a surge of pooch power locally and throughout the country.