Last month, the Oswego Parks & Recreation Foundation entered an online contest to help raise funds for its dog park proposal.

Last month, the Oswego Parks & Recreation Foundation entered an online contest to help raise funds for its dog park proposal.

After that first round, which ended June 10, Oswego’s Fido Field dog park project is one of 15 finalists on the PetSafe Bark for Your Park contest. Now, the final round of voting concludes July 22.

Four of the 15 cities in that final round will get $25,000 for their dog park project, but one city will get the grand prize of $100,000, according to the PetSafe Facebook page.

“Presently Oswego is not in the top four cities—but we can change that in the coming weeks,” Kelly Hodgson Summers, president of the Oswegoland Park Foundation, said in a statement.

People can vote multiple times, even on a daily basis, and Summers is encouraging Oswego residents to vote often and encourage their neighbors and family to do the same.

“If everyone who reads this votes twice daily, and asks 10 friends or family to do the same, and so on, we can win this much-needed cash to start building Oswego’s first dog park. We need everyone to help us achieve this goal,” she said.

The foundation ideally would like to have Fido’s Field open next year at Jaycee’s Park along Saugatuck Road in Montgomery. That location was seen as a good place to access for residents of both Oswego and Montgomery who use the Oswegoland parks, according to Summers.

The foundation’s plans for the park are ambitious and it said that in order to build the park it wants the price tag could come between $250,000 and $300,000. As of early June, the foundation has raised around $2,000.

In an effort to avoid using taxpayer money, the foundation is thus far relying on fundraising for this project.

The foundation, which formed in 2005, decided to get behind the dog park effort last year after receiving “ongoing requests” in recent years from residents.

To vote for the PetSafe Bark for Your Park go to http://www.petsafe.net/barkforyourpark. For more information on the Fido Field project, visit http://www.oswegolandparkdistrict.org/Information/foundation