Welcome Mozart - Feline Team Member!

We are very happy to announce that Organic Doggy Kitchen now has a feline team member :) Our marketing director recently welcomed this special boy kitty to her home. She was looking for a home for him for a long time on her sister's behalf, but finally decided to keep him with her. Everybody at Organic Doggy Kitchen is very happy about her decision because animal shelters everywhere have increase in the animal give-ups due to the economy. Congratulations! Now that we have Mozart on board, we have to start working on creating delicious treats for our feline friends. If you are looking for animals to welcome to your house, please consider adopting, check out PetFinder website to locate a homeless animals near you!

The Biggest Fan of Peanut Butter & Banana

We have been sending out our fresh baked Peanut Butter & Banana biscuits to a customer in Midwest, and since she buys bags of Peanut Butter & Banana at a time, we always thought she had either a really, really big dog, or many dogs, like 4 or 5 dogs. Then, last week, she kindly sent us a photo of her cute doggy, Clover! It's just one doggy, one Clover, who has been eating all those Peanut Butter & Banana biscuits that we baked and shipped!

Well, we cannot blame Clover, the smell of Peanut Butter & Banana biscuits when they are being baked.... yum yum, the entire doggy kitchen smells good, you can even smell the delicious aroma from the parking lot. We ripe our organic bananas to the perfection to make these delicious dog biscuits. But careful Miss Clover, that white bag is not edible... although it probably smells very good, we are sure that it doesn't taste good and not good for you.

More Canine Team Members - Kai & Katie

Just realized, I mentioned Kai & Katie in previous posts but there are no photo of Kai anywhere on this Blog! Kai and Katie are good friends of Kiki and Koby. Kai (left) is a very sweet boy, and Katie (right) is a very bright girl. Katie and Koby are closer in age, so they love to hang out with each other. It's not that often when all four huskies get to be here, it's fun to see the dynamics when all four are in the doggy kitchen! Kai's favorite thing at the doggy kitchen is, in fact, custom-made doggy cakes! Thank you for your help, Kai & Katie!

New Canine Team Member - Panda

Meet another new canine team member, Panda! Panda is a fluffy "big" younger brother of Hashi's. Hashi is a tiny papillon but this pup is already double or even triple the size of little Mr. Hashi! Panda loves to hang out with Koby the Husky here at Organic Doggy Kitchen. He is trying to learn proper canine manners from Koby, although we are not quite sure if Koby is a proper role model for pups...

New Canine Team Member - Hashi

Here at Organic Doggy Kitchen, our full-time taste testers are Kiki & Koby. Then, we have Kai & Katie the husky who come work with their human mom. Now we have a new taste tester, Hashi! Hashi is an eleven-year-young rescued papillon who loves Organic Doggy Kitchen biscuits. Hashi likes all of our dog biscuits but his mom tells us that his absolute favorite is wheat-free Peanut Butter Biscotti. His teeth are bad, so his mom, who bake doggy biscuits here in the doggy kitchen, brings home fresh baked treats and break them for him. Check out his happy smile :)

Pawlitical Pooch

Pawlitical race has started! Everyday we hear news after news about the presidential candidates and their whereabouts. We recently teamed up with Pawlitical Pooch, they create bumper stickers and other pawlitical products. Check out these bumper stickers! They can put your dog's photo on where paw prints are. Your dog's photo on your car's bumper, what a cute idea! Pawlitical Pooch online store is not open until next week, but here at Organic Doggy Kitchen, we'd be happy to process your orders over the phone, e-mail and through our online store. If you'd like to be the very first to have these cool pawlitical products, give us a howl at 703-532-7387 or bark(@)organicdogs.com!

Doggy Pool Party Guests - Pete & Carson

This is Pete coming out from his first swim in the pool! Pete's human mother is planning on opening a cool doggy spa in town, check out her blog, she wrote about Pete's first swimming experience at the party!

Carson also enjoyed his first swin at the party, check out his video on YouTube, doesn't look like it's his first time swimming. He is swimming in the big pool and looks like he's a Olympic swim team member!

Doggy Pool Party Guests

Here is our canine guest of honor, Leroy, being very silly trying to catch the water. Leroy is also a star dog on CBS' Greatest American Dog. Leroy was having so much fun playing with a sprinkler. Check out the luxurious doggy birthday party Leroy has every year!

Doggy Pool Party Guests

Miss Katie and Preston. Katie is a member of Organic Doggy Kitchen taste testing team! Let us know if you think your doggy is interested in joining our taste testing team.

Doggy Pool Party Guests

Hello, Beans! Did you swim?

Doggy Pool Party Guests

Sniff sniff! It's a DOGGY pool party, sniffing is of course, a very proper greeting.

Doggy Pool Party Guests

Here's a proof, how Preston is casanova!

Doggy Pool Party Guests

The Doggy Pool Party last Saturday was SO MUCH FUN! Thank you very much for everyone who joined the party, we raised over $500 dollars for Animal Cancer Foundation. Here are some photos from the party!


This is the famous Preston from CBS' Greatest American Dog who came all the way from California to visit his doggy friends, Leroy and Andrew. True to his nickname, Preston is a real casanova, he charmed everyone at the party. This little Mr. Casanova has a blog, so check it out!

Doggy Pool Party - August 23

It's been so hot this summer, and Organic Doggy Kitchen's mascots, Kiki and Koby are not enjoying the weather. They are huskies from the north so they spend most of the days on cool kitchen floors by the AC vents. We know that there are many dogs out there who are not enjoying the hot weather, so we decided to plan a fun doggy activity, a fundraiser pool party!!!!

Kiki and Koby goes swimming in Middleburg with their husky friends, Kai and Katie. Here, you can see it on YouTube. This pool is designed for horses but is also open for dogs, so we decided to rent it for a private doggy pool party. If your dog is new to swimming, don't worry, the experienced staff at the swim center will help your dog get used to the water and swimming in the smaller pool on site.

We invited a special guest of honor, Amazing Leroy, the canine star from CBS' reality show called Greatest American Dog will be joining the festivity, and there will be doggy goody bags for everyone who join.

When: August 23 (Sat) from 3:00 to 4:30, 1 hour and a half of indoor doggy fun!
Where: Northern Virginia Animal Swim Center
Attendance Fee: $ 25/dog to benefit Animal Cancer Foundation
RSVP: The space is limited. Please send us an e-mail at bark"at"organicdogs.com. for more information to sign up.

The Bark Ball - 400 Dogs in DC to Vote Tomorrow

Everyone at Organic Doggy Kitchen has been having a lot of fun with our Political Dog Biscuits this year. We have had several doggy primaries to see which party animal America's dogs choose, and the doggy primaries have been so much fun. I think tomorrow's voting will be the biggest canine primary ever. The Washington Humane Society is holding the Bark Ball, a black tie gala tomorrow, and they invited us to host a doggy primary for 400 canine party guests!

I think it's going to be so much fun. We have been baking lots of Political Dog Biscuits this week, as you can imagine. So far, Democratic Donkey biscuits have been selling more, a couple of stores ordered just donkey biscuits. They all started out with the equal number of Donkey and Elephant biscuits, but donkeys sold out before the Elephants at these stores. Let's see what happens this weekend at the Bark Ball!

*** Updates ***
Dogs at the event voted Republican! It was a very close race.

Fundraiser for Nova the Bull Mustiff

The other day, we heard from our friend Nancy, who owns a super nice dog boutique called Dog Krazy in Fredericksburg. Nancy received a call from her vet about a dog that was abandoned by her owners. Nova, a 2 year old bull mastiff, had been surrendered to her vet because she needs cruciate surgery and her owners did not want to pay for it and they asked the vet to put her to sleep. So Nancy rescued her, and she is having a fundraiser event this Saturday, on May 31st to raise $3000 for Nova's surgery and then Nancy can find her a good home.

Organic Doggy Kitchen has donated an organic doggy gift box for Nova. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it but if you are close to Fredericksburg, make sure to stop by because you can get a Big Sloppy Kiss or two from Miss Nova. I met Nova last weekend, no wonder Nancy fell in love with her, Nova is a truly sweet dog, 100+lbs. of sweetness! Nova is very cuddly and she loves pig ears. Check out the impressive variety of goodies available at the silent auction & raffles.

Event: Fundraising Party for Nova

When: May 31, 2008 (Sat.) from 11:ooam - 4:00pm

Where: Dog Krazy (1013 Caroline St, Fredericksburg, VA)

Questions: Call Nancy at 540-373-4168

*** UPDATES ***

We received a nice note and happy news from DogKrazy!

"I wanted to thank you for your donation to Nova's raffle. Your gift basket raised the most money of all seventy items donated. The highest bid for the ODK basket was $75. Even higher than the furminator basket! Thank you so much for helping Nova. Good news...she has a home!"

Delicious Smelling Political Dog Biscuits

We recently heard from many people mention how good smelling our political biscuits are. Well, Political Dog Biscuits smell soooo good in the oven and baking them make us hungry in the doggy kitchen!

Even though you can't tell from this photo, Lucy and Charlotte are hardworking dogs at London Dog. They are in charge to make sure everything is delicious and healthy for doggies. Here is a happy comment we received.

"Lucy, our beagle, does not like crunchy treats but she loved your treats! It turns out that one of my dogs is a republican and the other is a democrat. How funny. I can't wait for our customers tomorrow, this will be fun! The biscuits smell really good!"

The two girls have some posh taste in canine fashion, you have to see the selection in their store!

Petorama, a very fun doggy information website, gave us a "5 paws" rating in their March product review, it's their highest score! Petorama says...

"When we first opened the bags of the Political Dog Biscuits we were delighted with the aroma that didn't smell like the usual doggy treats. They smelled like graham crackers and if you were blind folded you wouldn't have known that they were doggy treats."

How cool! We are very happy and proud to bake such delicious treats loved by many doggies around the country.

Store for Eco-friendly & Socially Conscious Dogs

This charming lady is Lola, the taste tester of Paw Luxury. According to her human parents, Lola " thinks Organic Doggy Kitchen's Treats are to wag for. Shes gives these treats 2 paws up and barks that they are drool worthy." Lola loves our biscuits that she somehow convinced her parents to carry Organic Doggy Kitchen biscuits at Paw Luxury.

Well, Lola is a very socially conscious canine. What's special about Paw Luxury is that they care very much about the environment, safety of pet foods, as well as how they are made. They have very high standards and thorough screening process to make sure that ALL of the products they carry are eco-friendly, natural or organic, and meeting humane and fair trade standards.

I love talking with store owners who carry Organic Doggy Kitchen biscuits, they care so much about dog's health and well-being, and as well as the health of the Earth and environment and animal welfare. None of our retail customers sell cats and dogs because they believe in re-homing and adoption rather than breeding and selling. We enjoy chatting with them and I'd love to meet them someday or even better, visit their stores.

Paw Luxury has been on top of our "Love-to-Visit" Store List. This dream came true virtually, they recently launched an online store and it's just like visiting their store! Their physical store is in Pennsylvania and it's a driving distance, so someday we'll make a weekend road trip! But for those of you who are too far away from Pennsylvania, check out Paw Luxury's new website. They have the hemp leashes that I love! After using hemp leash, you just can't go back to any other materials, they are so gentle on your hands. And don't forget to grab some bags of our wheat-free Peanut Butter Biscotti, they are Lola's favorites!

New Doggy Daycare & Boarding - By Dulles Airport!

Are you looking for a fun doggy event this weekend? Come to the Grand Opening of Dogtopia Dulles. A brand new doggy daycare/boarding facility is coming to Chantilly/Dulles area. Organic Doggy Kitchen will be catering this very special event and will be bringing a banana-flavored doggy cake & lots of carob/peanut butter flavorered doggy cupcakes!

So bring your doggies and join us this Saturday, treat them to our goodies and meet the doggy trainers from the Enlightened Dog and the homeless dogs of A Forever Home Rescue.

When: April 26 (Sat) from 11am to 3pm
Where: Dogtopia Daycare & Spa: at 3850-D Dulles South Court, Chantilly, VA 20151
Phone: 703-814-9663

Hope to see you there!

Smallest Doggy Customer

Meet Miss Bailey, our smallest doggy customer! I met Bailey when Organic Doggy Kitchen was invited to cater a table at "Doggy Happy Hour" at a condo complex in town where Bailey's mom works as manager. You know the size of our Political Dog Biscuits bags, compare and you can see how tiny Bailey is! She is not a puppy, all grown-up. Can you guess how much she weighs? Only 2.7 pounds!!! Koby, our big boy husky weighs 67 lbs, that's 25 Baileys! Bailey and her mom came visit us during the Falls Church Doggy Happy Hour, we'll do the BIG event again next month on May 2. Hope everyone can join us again next month at the very happy Doggy Happy Hour.

Falls Church Doggy Happy Hour

It's happening again!! We had so much fun last year at the Doggy Happy Hour so Organic Doggy Kitchen is organizing a fun doggy event in Falls Church. This Friday, April 4 from 6pm to 8pm at the parking lot of Art and Frame of Falls Church (111 Park Avenue)!

We invited the homeless dogs and cats of Lost Dog Rescue, the homeless dogs of the Homeward Trails Rescue along with other local pet businesses such as PetMAC, Anderson Photography, Purrfect Grrooming, and Doggie Walkers and It's a Dog's Life Films to join this fun event. Please swing by with your doggy because we'll be hoding a doggy primary with Capitol Dog Bakery's Political Dog Biscuits & giving out a litlte doggy cupcakes for responsible canine citizens who vote! We have had three primaries so far, the Donkeys won the first round, the Elephants won the 2nd and 3rd.

You can see some of the fun video footages from last year's happy hour on our YouTube page.

Doggy Spa in Herndon

If you are local to the DC metro area, or even if you are just visiting town with your dog, it's really fun to visit Bark 'N Bubbles in Herndon & Ashburn. Kiki, Organic Doggy Kitchen's culinary advisor, went to get pampered at Bark 'N Bubbles.

Bark 'N Bubbles is a great fun doggy place because they have doggy events throughout the year. You can bring your dogs, and either bathe them yourself, or get them professionally bathed. Kiki seemed to enjoy being bathed by friendly professionals of Bark N Bubbles because she loved the feeling of getting pampered! You have to try Blueberry Facial; tastes sweet and Kiki loved it!

You can also find our Organic Doggy Kitchen biscuits & Political Dog Biscuits in their retail area. Bark 'N Bubbles also have goodies for people, a coffee/smoothe bar. You have to try their Mango Smoothie, it's really delicious.

Doggy Cake for 50+ Cavaliers!

Recently, Organic Doggy Kitchen made a really fun cake

for a really fun doggy party. DC Area Cavalier Spaniel Meetup Group celebrated their 1 year anniversary, and over 50 cavaliers and their people came to celebrate this fun event. The party was held at Dogtopia in Rockville, an indoor doggy daycare facility. This is a very moist pumpkin cake, yum yum, and it turned out that all cavaliers agreed it was indeed very delicious. The organizer of the event told us,

"Your cake was a HUGE HIT! Cavaliers were jumping up on the table and stealing slices! No kidding! "

They also held a doggy primary using Capitol Dog Bakery's political dog biscuits, and guess who won this round... It turns out that the cavaliers in nation's capital area prefers Elephants!

Doggy Primary in Virginia

Yesterday, Organic Doggy Kitchen held a unique event called Virgnia Doggy Primary at Nature's Nibbles yesterday. It was soooo much fun! Capitol Dog Bakery's Political Dog Biscuits come in the shape of elephants and donkeys, and they are the exact same Peanut Butter & Honey flavor, but we found out recently that our dogs have preferences... So we invited our local canine residents to come to Nature's Nibbles in Alexandria, and asked them to choose donkeys or elephants.

And many dogs walked in to just vote! One person walked in without a dog and told us he is casting an absentee vote on behalf of his dog. We also had one out-of-state canine voter who drove over 1 hour to just vote. But we decided to let him become an honorary Virginia canine resident and welcomed him to vote, too :)

We had a total of 24 votes. The result is - local doggies support Donkey Biscuits -10 elephants and 14 donkeys! People asked me if we put more peanut butter in donkey biscuits, but no, they are the very same recipe!

We also made little doggy cupcakes as a special treat for responsible canine citizen who voted. Lee and Donna from Anderson Photography joined and raffled for a free pet photo session, and it was a huge success! You can check out Lee's photos beautiful canine photos on his website.

Doggy Friendly Salon - Gerogetown

Can you believe there is a hair salon that you can go to with your dogs? It's not a doggy groomer - it's a real people hair salon & spa! Jean-Luc Salon in Georgetown welcomes well-mannered canines, in fact, one of their stylists comes to work with his dog!

So Kiki, Organic Doggy Kitchen's canine culinary advisor, and I went to visit LoAnn, my favorite hair stylist. LoAnn is really the greatest, I have been seeing her for 10 years now but this is the first time I went to get my hair done with my dog! I was not 100% sure how Kiki would behave, but she did enjoy the visit very much.

Here are my pointers as to what to expect when you go visit LoAnn with your dog.

1. Your dog must be able to accompnay you in a small change room and wait with you while you change into a salon robe.

2. Your dog must be able to go up and down the narrow and somewhat steep staircases.

3. Your dog must not freak out from the sound of hair dryers.

4. Your dog must be able to relax on the floor. Kiki enjoyed lounging on the well-polished hardwood floor. But she is a northern dog and she prefers cool, hard floors.

5. Your dog must be patient and be able to wait for you at your feet. Don't bring your dog if you are coloring your hair and expect to stay in the salon for hours!

And at the end, your doggy may receive a special delicious treat! Then, you can stroll through Georgetown with great hair with your dog and enjoy a happy doggy day in nation's capital!

Stay tuned, Kiki and Koby, Organic Doggy Kitchen's taste testers will be reporting on more doggy friendly places & fun dog events in the D.C. area!

Leroy's Circus Doggy Party

Happy New Year!

We had a very fun weekend. We had an honor of catering doggy goodies for a very special doggy birthday party! My friend Leroy, a truly talented border collie, turned 5 and his mom threw him a big birthday party at a local museum, and there were over 20 canine guests and many people guests as well.

Last year's party theme was beach party, and this year's was Circus! So we made a very big doggy birthday cake that looked like a circus tent, and also made lots and lots of decorated biscuits shaped like clowns, elephants, lions, poodles, etc. In 2 hours, all the biscuits were gone.

But there was more. Leroy's mom is so generous that she had a doggy treat bar for all the canine guests, and everyone got to take home our organic doggy biscuits, as much as they wanted. What a party!

By the way, if you want your doggy to be as talented as Leroy, his mom can show you how. She is an amazing dog trainer!