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All canine creatures — great and small — are welcome in the dog park, make no mistake about it.

A flurry of alarm erupted for several days last week, when it looked like the big boys and girls were banned from the popular pooch hangout at Jacobs Park on the city's North Side.

Only the small and cute among us were allowed in, so the new sign seemed to say.

"Small dog recreation" read the words on the stylish new metal sign that went up on Tuesday and now arches over the entrance to the Jacobs Park dog park.

And a cry went out across the land. Well, more like a bark. A lot of barks.

"Oh no, they can't do that. Oh, my God, they're turning it into a small-dog park — that's what everyone thought at first," said George Reiblich, with his gorgeous brindle boxer, Junior, bouncing around him. Though only eight months old, and still technically a puppy, Junior is indeed a big guy.

Big. And banned? Well, humbug.

"People were quite upset, but I think they were going to come anyway," Reiblich said. "The thinking was, well, who's going to come out here and weigh everybody? There was a lot of confusion about it."

But as most everyone finally figured out — and the city honchos have assured us — it has all been a major misunderstanding. And the happy, frolicking furballs — great and small alike — were never really worried, to judge from the look of them in full rompfest by Friday.

"This was a miscommunication, just a small misunderstanding. There is no restriction on any dogs," said Peg Weber, an administrator for Tucson Parks and Recreation.

"Since we opened the park, it's always been open to all dogs, large and small, and that won't change. The park is for everyone to use."

The miscue apparently occurred when the city commissioned a local artist to make a new sign for the dog park entrance. It is somewhat unclear why, but the words "small dog" were etched into the welcome message on it by mistake.

"It's quite a beautiful sign; it really is," Reiblich said. "We think it probably means it's a small park, not that it's for small dogs."

In any event, plans were made to quickly slap some duct tape over the "sm" in the offending word, leaving only the "all" — and earning the approval of just about everyone.

But the parks people decided to take no chances, and by midday Friday, the new sign was completely bundled and roped in tarp. While it awaits the needed spelling change, paper fliers pasted all over inform the pooches and their people in no uncertain terms:

"The Jacobs Dog recreation is open to ALL dogs regardless of race, breed, color or SIZE!" (SIZE is underlined, too, just in case.)

And so, there is peace in the valley, and maybe on Earth. There certainly is goodwill to all men, women … and most especially, their best friends.

"We were so grateful to read those fliers — it's OK, it's all dogs," said, Reiblich, reveling in the joyful sight of Junior wrestling with Heinz, a beautiful — and big — "Heinz 57"-type dog who willingly shared his ball with Junior. And Blossom, and Munchkin, when they arrived. (Blossom and Munchkin are, well, how to say it, small.)

"We know each other by our dogs' names," Reiblich said of the humans milling around.

"People are going to be so happy there's no controversy."