The Amazing Leroy's Birthday Party

It's been a while since our last Blog, time flies! Our year started with the Amazing Leroy's birthday party catering. He again had many party guests including Andrew from the Greatest American Dog show, and the party theme was Hollywoof! We came up with star themed doggy goodies for Leroy and his friends, which were all gone by the end of the party.

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!

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!

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!

Get Well Cupcakes for a Special Doggy

Last week, doggy chefs at Organic Doggy Kitchen made special treats for a very special doggy, Beau. The request was to make something special as a get well wish for Beau the Beagle. We added some color to cheer up Beau and his family. Beau shared these delicious (I ate one!) cupcakes with his sister, and as his Mom told us later, they both enjoyed them :) I had an honor to meet this special boy when I delivered the cakes, and he is very cute and sweet! Everyone at the doggy kitchen is sending well-wishes for you, Beau!

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!

Doggy Birthday at Dogs by Day & Nite

This weekend, we made a special birthday cake for a dog named Katrina. She is having a birthday party at this awesome doggy daycare called "Dogs by Day & Nite." Miss Kiki has been there a few times for sleep-overs, and it's great because they care about dogs so much that they have a staff member who sleeps with doggies at night! It's like a doggy pajama party!! Another reason we love Dogs by Day is because they have a 24-hour lobby service, and you can drop off and pick up your dog as soon as you come back from your trip!

Anyways, back to Katrina's doggy cake. Katrina is a white Akita. What a coincidence, we happened to have an "Akita cookie cutter"!! And another coincidence, I happen to be Japanese, where Akitas are from, so I wrote Akita in Japanese on the cookie!!

Katrina likes peanut butter so we made the frosting with peanut butter, and put an extra layer of peanut butter, yum yum!

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!

Free Doggy Cake - Sept 1 in Del Ray

This cake was our weekend project here at Organic Doggy Kitchen. Mr. Robbie, a cutest Cavalier, celebrated his 2nd birthday with his doggy friends. We made a mostly-organic pumpkin-flavored cake and goody bags of organic Peanut Butter & Banana biscuits for his barkday party. A little bit of color was added to the icing to match the party theme color of blue, purple and lime green. It was a lot of fun :)

Nature's Nibbles in Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria is having a grand-reopening celebration on September 1. We'll be making a big cake (flavor TBD) for everyone to enjoy and bring it over to the store, so if your dogs like to try a piece of our cake, this is your chance! Come join the celebration at Nature's Nibbles! with your dogs!!

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 :)

Doggy Happy Hour in Falls Church

When: May 4 (Friday)/6pm to 8 pm

Where: 111 Park Ave. Falls Church, VA (Art & Frame of Falls Church)

Organic Doggy Kitchen is hosting doggy happy hour this coming Friday along with other local pet business owners! Come meet local dog trainers, pet sitters, pet photographer, groomers, and the homeless dogs from Lost Dog Rescue! We are baking a big doggy cake for everyone to enjoy, for free!!

The picture here is the doggy birthday cake and the party platter I made for Piper's 10th birthday. Piper's mom says everyone loved our cake! It's banana cake with peanut butter frosting, yum yum! I haven't decided what flavor of cake to make for the happy hour, you just have to let your doggy find it out on Friday!

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!