Times Square Dog Day in New York City

Sunday October 18 was the fifth annual Times Square Dog Day in New York City. We are all familiar with Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in NYC, but Dog Day?

I found out about this on Yahoo’s ever so engaging homepage.

Well, I’m sure that most of you are familiar with regular pet adoption fairs, right? There’s usually some tents or balloons if anything and dogs/cats hoping to find their new homes.

Dog Day in Times Square is just a more eccentric, Halloweenish version of these adoption fairs. Dogs get dressed up in their wonderful little costumes  to raise awareness so that these other dogs can get adopted. How cute is that!

A big thank you to  all the creative folks who come up with far out canine costume ideas like hotdogs, dinosaurs, Obi-Wan Kanobe and Spiderman.

This image is courtesy of nydailynews.com

According to the caption of this image (from 2008) these dogs are Bebe and Chico.  I think this is the same Bebe and Chico that I wrote my first Dogasaur blog post on!

Their mom is Nikki, whose blog is http://www.obsessivechihuahuadisorder.com

I will ask her and find out for sure.

But this week, I wrote another blog for Dogasaur about the 2009 Times Square Dog Day in New York City. I do hope that a lot of dogs found homes through this event. To see my post, click here.

Helping Neglected Animals In This Economy

Ouch! This is what the recession feels like for many people.  These times don’t make it very easy for many of us to help causes that we’d like to support.

It breaks our hearts to think about animals who need food, shelter and loving homes.  There are many of us who want to do something to help. But with money being an issue, what can we do?

Make Cool Stuff to Sell

One of the members on Dogasaur, Carla Fish, is an artist who makes and sells these truly adorable stuffed animals made of socks

Who would ever guess this beautiful piece  is made out of sock material? Seven dollars out of every sale goes towards an animal shelter. Even though we are in a recession, people are still buying and selling goods. So if you can create something that others will pay for, this money can go towards animals who need help. Carla Fish is truly an inspiration.

You can read more about how to save an animal by adopting a sock here.

Host An Event

Last month, I saw these mini pinchers that were available for adoption outside a Los Angeles dog boutique. It turns out that these dogs were rescued from a horrific puppy mill in Riverside.  Not all the puppies survived. The ones I happened to see were the lucky ones. The vet bills for these dogs were over $17,000!!!

The folks did this  rescue helped to organize an 80′s Prom Party at the House of Blues on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles. Proceeds from this event went towards the hefty vet bills for these dogs.

I wrote a blog for Dogasaur with more information about the Riverside puppies and the people who gave so much to help them.  Read it here.

Tipjoy

A few days ago, I heard about this site called Tipjoy.com

It is now possible to earn tips through Twitter. You can create your own fundraising project through this. I’m not sure how effective this is overall, but it’s something worth considering.

Pet Postcard Project

This is where you make a home made card from the photo of your dog or cat. Mail it to the Pet Postcard Project, see the link below. Rachel Ray’s pet food company, Nutrish, will donate one pound of dog food for homeless animals.

Read more here

I really love Rachel Ray for supporting this project. Here is the blog I wrote on Dogasaur.