As promised, here are some pics of the winners of the Halloween Parade organized by Doggie Day.

We are very happy to announce that among the winners were our friends Amy and her tiny Chihuahua Cucuy, and Jim with the Yorkshires Paulina and Mia.

Here is the full list of winners and prizes for the three categories of the contest.

BEST GROUP ENSEMBLE
First prize: Photoshoot with Dana Berenson of La Muse Photography.
Winner: KING LOUIS AND HIS COURT

Second prize: Day of Beauty at sPoochies.
Winner: THE SCUBA GROUP

Third Prize: Dinner for two at California Pizza Kitchen and a goody box of the finest brownies, cookies, and freshly baked gifts from Geoff and Drew’s.
Winner: THE RED SOX GREEN MONSTER (Paulina, Mia and Jim)

MOST OUTRAGEOUS
First prize: One night stay in a deluxe room at the Hotel Marlowe.
Winner: HUGH HEFFNER AND THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR

Second prize: Two tickets for dinner and a show to Claddah Bing Dinner Theater at Kowloon
Winner: THE PIRATES (Amy and Cucuy)

Third Prize: Dinner for two at California Pizza Kitchen and a goody box of the finest brownies, cookies, and freshly baked gifts from Geoff and Drew’s.
Winner: THE FABULOUS GREYHOUND MONSTER

MOST ORIGINAL

First prize: One night stay in a deluxe room at the Nine Zero Hotel
Winner: TANYA HARDING

Second prize: Two tickets to The Blue Man Group at the Charles Play House
Winner: DRACULA

Third prize: Dinner for two at California Pizza Kitchen and a goody box of the finest brownies, cookies, and freshly baked gifts from Geoff and Drew’s.
Winner: HERBIE THE LOVE PUG

Unfortunately, one of our favorite costumes, the lobster, didn’t win any prize, but we still liked it very much anyway!

All profits from the parade benefited dogs from Canine Companions for Independence. There was an impressive demonstration of what these dogs can do to help people with disabilities on the stage. This great organization raised a lot of awareness of their cause with the parade but more help is needed to train their smart dogs - so please contact them if you can!

Dana, the professional photographer of La Muse Photo, took a lot of great pictures at the event. You check them here (click on “View my photoshoot on the top right of her home page).

Our friend Amy, who volunteered at the Parade, published more pics here.
You can see there more images of the parade, the judges (as the one below, with her wonderful costume), the organizers and all other dogs who have participated to the parade.

And even more photos of the day are available in our Flickr account.

Feel free to post a comment and let us know what do you think of the parade and what your favorite costume is!

Here are some pics we took last Sunday at Divas Unleashed, the amazing dog Halloween Parade organized by Doggie Day.

We will publish soon the pictures of the winners of the costume contest!!!

St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brockton, MA is having a blessing of the animals on Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 4 PM.
The blessing is in the name of St. Francis of Assisi: and this is a very pretty dog t-shirt we found at Happy Paws, a pet shop in New York.

The fabolous little Yorkshire Sophie Chou Chou celebrated her second birthday yesterday at Doggie Day in Boston, MA.
The party was a great success! Chou Chou and her parents, Kat and Rob, invited Chou Chou’s best friends from the Little Yorkies Boston meetup group.
The sparkling birthday girl was wearing a pink outfit with a toutou in tulle, and pearls that she receveid as a birthday gift.

The room was full of colorful balloons, and decorated with flowers and butterflies. A entertaining video for dogs was playing on TV, and there were two cakes: one for dogs, prepared by Kat, and one for humans, with a big Yorkshire decoration on the top.

An artist was invited to draw sketches of the guests and their owners.

Here are some of the guests.
Abby was wearing a very nice pink and green outfit.

Coco chose an informal light blue shirt.

The tiny Baby and Oreo preferred the stripes: Baby in pink and Oreo in blue.

Other dogs chose a more natural look.

Dogs ate the cake in beautiful dishes decorated with flowers and butterflies.

One of the most exciting moment of the party was when Kat opened the several gifts.

A couple of dogs were jealous of all the wonderful birthday gifts that the spoiled pocket Yorkie received. When everybody else wasn’t watching, Abby checked for some gifts left in a bag, but unsuccessfully.

At the end of the party, surprises weren’t finished yet. The bravehearth Bandit stole one of Chou Chou’s gifts!

Guests left the party with beautiful gifts, too, including the skectches, a box of M&Ms customized with Chou Chou’s name, and a notebook with Chou Chou’s picture.
More photos of the party are published here.

Thanks Kat and Rob for organizing such a wonderful and fun party!

Here are some pictures of Baby and Peanut’s birthday party!
The two little Yorkies are members of the Boston Little Yorkies Meet-up Group, celebrated their birthday at Doggie Day, located at 400 Tremont St in Boston.
Chou Chou, Cinderella, Collette and other beautiful Yorkshires were the lucky guests of this amazing party!

Dear Dogs,
Did you know that the Angell Memorial in Boston has a blood bank? In order to donate your blood, you have to be over 50lbs and 1-6 years old. 1-8 year old cats over 9 pounds can donate their blood as well!

Please have your humans go to the Angel Memorial web site and check it out.

Pictured above is a volunteer for another US pet blood bank.

Read the incredible story of the lucky Trouble, Leona Helmsley’s maltese who inherited $12M!

NEW YORK (AP) — Leona Helmsley’s dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley’s grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire’s estate.

Helmsley left her beloved white Maltese, named Trouble, a $12 million trust fund, according to her will, which was made public Tuesday in surrogate court.

She also left millions for her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, who was named to care for Trouble in her absence, as well as two of four grandchildren from her late son Jay Panzirer — so long as they visit their father’s grave site once each calendar year.

Otherwise, she wrote, neither will get a penny of the $5 million she left for each of them.

Helmsley left nothing to two of Jay Panzirer’s other children — Craig and Meegan Panzirer — for “reasons that are known to them,” she wrote.

But no one made out better than Trouble, who once appeared in ads for the Helmsley Hotels, and lived up to her name by biting a housekeeper.

“I direct that when my dog, Trouble, dies, her remains shall be buried next to my remains in the Helmsley mausoleum,” Helmsley wrote in her will.

The mausoleum, she ordered, must be “washed or steam-cleaned at least once a year.” She left behind $3 million for the upkeep of her final resting place in Westchester County, where she is buried with her husband, Harry Helmsley.

She also left her chauffeur, Nicholas Celea, $100,000.

She ordered that cash from sales of the Helmsley’s residences and belongings, reported to be worth billions, be sold and that the money be given to the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Her longtime spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, had no comment.

Helmsley died earlier this month at her Connecticut home. She became known as a symbol of 1980s greed and earned the nickname “the Queen of Mean” after her 1988 indictment and subsequent conviction for tax evasion. One employee had quoted her as snarling, “Only the little people pay taxes.”