Adoption Fees Waved

Thinking about getting a new pet? Well Dorchester Humane Society is waving the adoption fee on many of their adorable adoptable 4 legged friends. They are looking for Valentine's, true love, and forever homes  for these lovely furry bundles of joy. For more information contact them at 410-228-3090.

Below is the link to the story WMDT did:
http://www.wmdt.com/Global/story.asp?S=13866044

Zoo Volunteer Workshop

This is not a dog friendly event, but it is for animal lovers!

The Salisbury Zoo is looking for volunteers! The fair will inform people how to help the zoo and other organizations looking for help. It will take place this weekend on Saturday Jan. 22, 2011. 12:30pm until 3:30pm. There will be refreshments and all are encouraged to attend and bring a 2 legged friend! The zoo can be reached at 410-546-3440 if you have any questions.

Below is the link to the WMDT websites story about the event:
http://www.wmdt.com/Global/story.asp?S=13858470

Lewes Winter Fest

Lewes Winter Fest is taking place February 11th and 12th!

They are going to have a bunch of Dog Friendly events including:

• A "Yappy Hour" at Irish Eyes Pub and Restaurant. People and their pets can attend the event that will be held on the heated, enclosed porch. It will feature fun drinks like a "Mutt-ini" and "Cat-atonic". Yappy hour will be on Friday 2/11 from 5-7pm.

• Another event that they will be hosting which will take place on Saturday 2/12 at 2pm. This will be a Pet Pageant. There will be three winners from the following four categories: Formal Wear, Leisure Wear, Companion Look-Alike and Kids Freestyle (open only to children).
• Registration takes place at P.U.P.S. at 117 Second St. Contestants also can register the day of the event in front of Citizens Bank from noon to 1:30 p.m. The registration entry donation is $5 and benefits the Sussex County SPCA. All contestants must be on site no later than 1:30 p.m. to receive their entry numbers. Contestants will line up with their owners at 1:45 p.m. behind Citizens Bank.

• The SPCA will also be there accepting donations of blankets, bleach, toys, bones, kitty litter, and other pet products to help their shelter pets.

 Check out the link below for for information.
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/201101-01-15/14083-winter-fest.html

WinterPlace Park

So this past weekend we decided to brave to cold, embrace the sunshine and lack of precipitation and head  out on a hike. We went to WINTERplace in honor of the winter conditions. We had a good time. We didn't meet too many people on the trails, about 4 and all four had dogs with them. The other encounter we had was with 2 horses! So it was a nice day, and a nice easy trail. Long enough that the dogs were tired when we got home, but short enough that we weren't freezing. And the highlight of the trip for the pups was the dirt piles. Towards the back of the park there were huge dirt piles that the dogs LOVED running up and down and around. They had the greatest time!


Hopefully the Salisbury Dog Park will be opening up soon, but until then WinterPlace Park on Old Ocean City Road in Salisbury was a great little energy reducer.

Petsmart Howl-o-ween!

Petsmart is having a halloween party this Saturday 3-5pm. I'm sure they will have some freebee goodie bags that they usually have at their events. Pets and people are of course welcome to dress up! Usually I'm a create my own costume kinda gal but when I was at petsmart last week and they were on sale for $7 I couldn't afford to make one for less than that! So our chow mix, who we already call a big purple dinosour thanks to her purple tounge and skin will offically look it to everyone else! She looks so silly! Petsmart will also be doing photos and probably contests. We went to a birthday party event and it was a blast and got some great free stuff so you can bet you'll see us at this one!

St. Michaels

So after a great afternoon at Bark in the Park in Easton we decide to head the 10 miles down the road to check out St. Michael's, Maryland... aka the location of the the filming of the movie Wedding Crashers.

We parked at a municipal lot at the end of the shops, right before the parking lot to the Maritime Museum. It was right next to the information desk that would be helpful if you were looking for a recommendation on something to eat or see. We walked back up the way to explore the shops. After going for a while we decided we wanted to walk a side street to check out the houses. When we got to the end of that street there was a park with a nature trail that lead parallel to the shops, so we took that back. It was a nice little trail and we had it all to our selves.

It was a really nice little town and the streets are very dog friendly with water bowls at almost every other store front, however I would never bring my dog inside any of them! Everything looked to nice and too expensive to risk those tails! But I wouldn't call it an all day destination, just a nice thing to do quickly if you're in the area.

You can check out events that they hold throughout the year at the St. Michael's website http://www.stmichaelsmd.org/index.htm

Bark in the Park Review

Bark in the park was very fun! There was tons to do. We didn't get to see the Easton police k-9 demo but we did see some of  the dog show, the agility demo, the band, and the dock dogs demo. It was a really bbig park and there were a ton of vendors and activities. It was really fun! There were a ton of dogs and people and everyone seemed to be having a great time, including us! :) I didn't take any pictures but promise it was a good time anyway!