How many organic dogggy biscuits can you eat in 5 minutes?

We had an unusual e-mail from Mike in Reston, Virginia. Mike was organizing a fundraiser for the Siberian Husky Rescue Fund. He wanted to eat Organic Doggy Kitchen's doggy biscuits and have people guess how many cookies he can eat in 5 minutes and pledge money per biscuits he'll be eating. So we offered to send Mike a sample of our biscuits for tasting. I personally like to munch on our Cheese Biscuits, Mike thought he would enjoy Peanut Butter & Banana, but after tasting the samples, he decided to go with Apple Cinnamon.

So can you guess how many cookies Mike ate in 5 minutes?

15 pieces!!

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!"

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.

Dogs Gone Political

Organic Doggy Kitchen has created very fun new products for political canines; Political Dog Biscuits are finally here! They are peanut-butter & honey flavored and low in fat, and of course, everything we use is human-grade certified orgnaic. The red bag is filled with republican elephant shaped biscuits, and the blue bag is filled with democratic donkey biscuits. They are the same flavor, so you can ask your dog which party animal they prefer or want to chomp! A perfect gift for politically savvy and the dogs who have everything.

We are donating a portion of each sale of these political biscuits to Washington Humane Society, who helps neglected, abused and homeless animals in Washington, D.C. Capotil Dog Bakery's product website is still under construction but we plan to report on which bags are selling more throughout 2008. As of today, both bags are selling equally! You can purchase them at local pet stores below, or shop at our Organic Doggy Kitchen shopping page.

Art & Frame of Falls Church

Dominion Pet Supply (Arlington)

Fetch (Alexandria/Lorton)

Nature's Nibbles (Alexandria)

PetMAC (Washington, DC)

Posh Pooch (Bethesda)

Pretentious Pooch (Baltimore)

ProFeed (Alexandria/Rockville)

More stores coming soon!

Shop & Support Homeless Animals!

Did you have a fun Halloween? Organic Doggy Kitchen had an honor of making a Halloween Doggy Cake for one of our customer stores, PetMAC in Arlington. PetMAC is a very special store because they work together with Homeward Trails Rescue Group, and every single time you purchase pet food and supplies at PetMAC, you are in fact helping homeless animals! Needless to say, all the food they sell is of course all natural and very high-quality.

Kiki and Koby and I couldn't make it to the party because we had a lot of biscuits to bake at the Doggy Kitchen, but Cindy, the owner of PetMAC just told me today that everyone loved the cake, and "nary a crumb was left to bring home!" Cindy even tried it and said it was tasty!

K9 Karnival: Lost Dog & Cat Rescue

This Saturday, Lost Dog Rescue is hosting a fun, fundraiser event for dogs called "K9 Karnival"! Organic Doggy Kitchen is donating a gift box of our organic doggy treats, and if you are lucky, maybe you'll win!

I came to know Lost Dog Rescue several years ago when I met its president, Marcia in a doggy training class. It was a great class offered by Leash and Collar. Lost Dog Rescue is a great organization, they do help lots of dogs and cats every year, so please join the fun with your dog and help homeless animals!

By the way, Dogs by Day, a wonderful 24h doggy daycare in DC (and Kiki sometimes sleeps over with them), featured Organic Doggy Kitchen's biscuits in their newsletter! Thank you for spreading the word about our delicious and wholesome treats. They are handmade and baked with love!

Homeward Trail's Hot Dog Round Up

Another fun doggy event is happening this weekend. Homeward Trails, a rescue group that helps rural dogs of West Virginia find homes in the DC metro area, is hosting a event called Hot Dog Round Up. What a name!! All kinds of fun activities for dogs and their humans, you just have to check out the event website!

PetMAC will be hosting a table there and offering Organic Doggy Kitchen's handmade organic dog biscuits, so join this fun, fundraiser with your dog and help homeless animals!

1500 Dog Lovers!

I had such a wonderful day yesterday. Green Pets, one of the very first stores to carry our biscuits, kindly invited Organic Doggy Kitchen to participate in their booth at Washington Humane Society's Walk for the Animals at the National Mall. The weather was gorgerous, the sky was blue, and many many many happy dogs and people! Over 1500 people participated in this year's walk along with their beloved canine family members. This is the biggest doggy cake we've ever made. It originally said "WALK" for the animals but it got sliced by the time I got the camera out. The cake was very heavy but was popular and almost all gone within an hour!

The event had such positive energy everywhere, can you imagine being around 1500 people who care so much about homeless animals? It was just such a happy day, people were happy, dogs were happy, and so was I! I met several people & doggies who are fans of our Organic Doggy Kitchen biscuits!! Thank you so much for stopping by to say hi, and thank you also for supporting local homeless animals.

I highly recommend everyone to join the event next year, even if you don't have dogs, just join and enjoy the outdoor festivity, it's just so much fun! You can see what kind of fun we had in the Washington Humane Society's online photo album and other cakes that we made for this event. And if you ever need help with nutritional needs of your dogs and cats, call Green Pets, they are really the experts and very friendly! They deliver locally and ship nationwide so you can fetch our organic dog biscuits!

The event raised over $100K!!! Cheers to everyone who joined the Walk to help the homeless animals and many thanks to all the hard-working staff members of HSUS/WHS and volunteers who made this happen!

New Dog Wash in Herndon

I went to a really, really cute dog wash last weekend to help out the Dog Wash Fundraiser for Furry Suits Rescue. The fundraiser was held at this brand new dog wash place in Herndon, VA, called Bark & Bubbles! You should check out the website before you go because they have different specials every day of the week.

Bark & Bulles also has a cafe for people, and if you go there, you MUST try their mango smoothie! It was one of the best mango smoothies I had.

The cake I made for this event was Carob & Banana cake with Peanut Butter icing. It was yummy, believe me, I tried it before serving :)

Meet Ben

Did you see NBC's Today Show yesterday? There was a segment on someone from the animal shelter that I volunteer for, the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria. Once a week, I visit the shelter to take pictures of homeless dogs, and sometimes, small animals for their website. I have been doing this for quite some time now.

The story was about how Dolores, our volunteer coordinator left her corporate job to take this non-profit position, but she enjoys it much more than her previous job. Then, there were many shots of "BEN." Ben is a very special dog that we have at the shelter, and I try to promote him every opportunity that I have, so I have to tell you about him, too.

Ben looks like a little bit like a Beagle, but Ben's Mom was a purebred boxer. She was rescued from Louisiana after the Hurricane Katrina and came all the way to Alexandria. One morning, a shelter staff walked in the kennel, and found 2 pups in her cage! She was so skinny that nobody knew she was pregnant!!

So we had two brand new pups! Ben, and his brother, Cajun. Mom and Cajun both found home already, but Ben is still at the shelter. He was born with a hind leg that was not fully functional, and went through some rehab sessions. But not to worry, he can walk fine and in fact, runs pretty fast, like a normal pup. In fact, he does run fast so you probably can't catch him once he starts playing the "Catch Me If You Can!" game with a toy in his mouth.

Ben turned 1 year old in November of 2006, and we celebrated his birthday at the shelter. I baked a big doggy birthday cake for him, of course, made with mostly organic ingredients. In the above photo, he looks sad because the cake was too big for him and he was told to stop eating it. But big-hearted Ben shared his cake with all of his doggy friends at the shelter!

Today, April of 2007, Ben still doesn't have a home. So I am taking every opporunity to spread the word about him. If you know someone who is looking for a special dog, please help spread the word, too!

Search for William

William, a Weimaraaber Mix with white markings, escaped from his foster home on March 10 in Arlington on March 10. He is a homeless dog cared by Friends of Homeless Animals, where I used to volunteer as kennel helper a while ago. William escaped from his foster home on March 10. He has been spotted in the area around Bailey's Crossroads, Route 7, Columbia Pike, and Sleepy Hollow Park. That's not too far from our Doggy Kitchen, in fact, my commute route! I am helping Friends of Homeless Animals to put flyers up.

If you see William, do not chase him but just call the rescue group. He is very shy! If you happen to live or work in that area, South Arlington, Annandale, Falls Church, please, please visit this website and print & post flyers. He has been roaming around for 20 days now and everyone is very worried for him, I want him to be safe ASAP!