Prize pack for the 4 winners chosen by the online voting public:

$75 gift certificate for prints by photographer Liz Kerrison.
Treat your Dog @ Bark & Fitz with Bath & Tidy Spa Date (includes bath, brush out & blow dry, ear cleaning, pawdicure, nail clip, face & toosh trim) at our Westboro or Kanata Grooming Salon $40 worth of treats from the BARK & FITZ collection (bakery treats, bottle or tin treats, sizzlin liver or Nechako Valley bones or chews)
Bonus gift of choice from our bargain bin of discontinued items.

The Pup Art Photos taken at the Wiggle Waggle Walkathon are now ready to be downloaded. Thanks to the dogs and their humans who participated! You helped to raise over $500 for the Ottawa Humane Society!

If you had a Bad Dog Mug Shot taken at the BARK Picnic, please follow these instructions to pick it up:

* Click here to open the album

* Find your photo and click on it to make it bigger

* Above the photo there will be a button that says: All Sizes – click on that

* Click the link of the size photo you would like to download (Square, Thumbnail, Small, Medium, Large, Original) and a link will appear that says: Download the *size you chose* size

I follow many blogs through my trusty Google Reader. One of these blogs is of amazing dog photographer, Erin Vey from Seattle, who just announced the launch of her latest project, The Barkives.

The Barkives is a comprehensive photo catalog of many, MANY dog photos taken by Erin herself. Her photography is beautiful and the site is worth checking out! You can even order notecards or prints of you favourite photos for yourself.

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Back by very popular demand, Bad Dog Mug Shots! Come and see me at the Bark and Fitz/Ottawa Dog Blog booth and get your very own bad dog booked!

Not many people know this, but I am getting married in August. We are having a nice small ceremony and reception in our backyard surrounded by family, with two family members in particular; Paddington and Corduroy. It was important to me to have my dogs at my wedding, probably because I am a self-proclaimed crazy dog lady and because they are such a huge part of our lives. I am thrilled that the pups will be free to be with us on our big day.

I am not dressing the dogs up at all, Paddy may wear her pearl collar, but that’s about it. I do have a friend who is having their dog be the ring bearer and because of this, have made sure he looks spiffy in a bow tie. Certain websites have entire sections dedicated to doggy wedding gear and there was even a dog marriage at Woofstock in Toronto this summer.

While my personal opinion is that dog marriages are a tad silly, I do think it’s cute for a male dog to don a bow tie, but Paddington’s pearls are as far as I would go in dressing my dogs up for our wedding.

What are your thoughts on having dogs in weddings? What about dressing up for weddings?

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Westfest 2009 was a great success! Ottawa Dog Blog teamed up with Bark & Fitz Westboro and elizabeth&jane photography to do a fun and cheeky fundraiser for BARK Rescue. Thanks to everyone who participated, we were able to raise $550 for the organization! View the Bad Dog Mug Shot Gallery here.

The reasons for the bad dogs being booked are below:

Saturday

1. Corduroy – for chewing up my favourite DVD!
2. Kuma and Bandit – for chasing every dog possible!!!
3. Charlie – for ripping up the carpet through the dog fence
4. Cocochilla – she’s under arrest for being so cute!
5. Albert – there isn’t enough space!
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