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The Harrison commissioners approved the addition of a pet day care and boarding service at an existing dog training business in the township. Ringer’s Pet Dog Training, at 3041 Freeport Road, is expected to open for business Friday morning with the additional services, which owner Kim Ringer wasn’t allowed to

The owner of a Harrison dog training business said she’ll try one last time to seek township approval to operate a pet day care and boarding service at her Freeport Road location. Kim Ringer, owner of Ringer’s Pet Dog Training, will present her case to the township’s planning commission Monday.

Harrison business owner Kim Ringer got first-step approval from township commissioners on Monday in her pursuit to operate a doggie day care and boarding service from her Freeport Road retail space. Commissioners voted 5-0 to rezone the property from B-1 to S-1, allowing pet daycare services. Ringer can now apply

An ongoing fight to bring a doggie day care to Freeport Road in Harrison will culminate in a public hearing Monday. People can weigh in on the request by Ringer’s Pet Dog Training to offer the service at 3041 Freeport Road, a former car dealership that Kim Ringer and her

Bruce D. Ringer’s love of dogs and his wife were manifest, and not surprisingly intertwined. The longtime, legendary dog trainer, Ringer, 63, of Tarentum, died of colon cancer on Dec. 20. He was a dog trainer for more than 35 years and opened the first doggie day care in Allegheny County. Ringer was the first nationally certified professional dog trainer, according to his family, and the first certified “dog nose work” instructor in Western Pennsylvania. He participated in the search at t...