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!"

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 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.

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!

Howl-O-Ween Ice Cream Social

South Run Dogs, a small group of carind dog owners, are hosting a Howl-o-Ween Ice Cream social event on Sunday, October 28! They are having a Halloween costume contest, and Organic Doggy Kitchen is going to offer an assortment of organic dog biscuits to the winner!

South Run Dogs kindly invited me to do this big job, to be the judge of the contest, what a big job!! If you live close to the area, you should join this group because they seem to have lots of fun doggy activities throughout the year.

So dress up your dog and come join the fun next Sunday!

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!

Doggy Massage Lesson

There was a small article about my doggy massage instruction service called PAWsitive Touch in yesterday's Washington Post. We are having a group lesson later this month on October 27, so if you are interested, please contact us through PAWsitive Touch website!

By the way, my poor Kiki the Husky has some arthritis on her hind legs so I took her swimming this weekend with Koby and our Husky friends. It was her first time to swim but she did very well. You should see the videos, you'll see how much fun we had!

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!