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!