So we went to Dog Days of Summer in old Westerville, Ohio. We go to this every year. Last year it stormed really bad. This year we had the perfect weather for it.
As you can see the event is packed!
There are always lots of booths and rescue groups there
We ran into Pete from Pet Butler again. He is SO supportive of rescue groups.
There were people there doing pottery
and cool stores that sell nothing but dog stuff
Look at all these magnets they had
There were fun games to play
New friends to meet
Ran into friends from our training club. Here is Scarlet
Last Thursday we went and had our professional head shots taken by Lauryn Byrdy Photography for the Mutts and Co model search. They loved all of Bokeh's tricks. We can't wait until they announce the 10 final models they are going to use to re-brand Mutts and Co.
(sorry we didn't get any photos inside, mom was signing forms and dad was helping the photographer position us). We are supposed to get a copy of the head shots so we will share them soon. :)
So as I told you yesterday we went to Germain Toyota for the Pet Talk tour with Harrison Forbes. The end of the event they had a costume contest. The top prize was a YEAR supply of Pedigree dog food.
There were some cute pups there.
Biker chic
Frankie, I think it is your sister. This was Bella...she looked just like you!
Little Bumble Bee
Some Blind refs
an adorable little banana. Mom was proud of Bokeh, he actually didn't shake the head part off.
and me in my Pirate Costume. Mom and dad found some new accessories to add to it this year.
The little girl with the Frankie look alike won 3rd place. The blind refs one 2nd place and guess who won 1st place... a YEAR supply of dog food :)
Yesterday we went to a fun event at Germain Toyota. They had pet celebrity Harrison Forbes there signing his new book. The first 50 people got a free copy of his book.
He even autographed it for us. Says to take care of those blue eyed babies. <3
Us with Mr. Forbes. He was really nice. We told him we have a dog blog and he told us he just got back from some kind of big convention with over 400 people who have Pet Blogs. How cool is that?
After we talked to Harrison for awhile we went over to meet Andy Clark from the Radio station here in Columbus 93.3. He let us spin the prize wheel. You had to pick a color and if it landed o nthat color you won. Dad chose yellow and didn't win. Mom choose blue (for our eyes) and guess what...she won. We got to pick a prize so dad picked this:
Us with the DJ, Andy Clark
Andy had his pet there...a snake!
Bokeh wanted to see what it was...
Here is a shot of the entire event
They had dogs doing search and rescue demos
They had a girl hide in the box
and the dog found her. :)
They had yummy free food as well (thanks to Germain Toyota). The hot dogs from Dan's Deli are the best hot dogs we have ever had. YUMMY! Dad gained a new friend wanting some food.
They also had a costume contest...check back tomorrow for more about that exciting news. :)
So last weekend we went to Wagfest. It was so much fun. We found out that 12,004 people attended this year with over 6,000 dogs. Mom had a booth set up for her rescue so that was all she got to do all day. Dad was busy running Bokeh and I around. Bokeh has disc dog demos at 12:30 and 2:30. Then I had agility demos at 1:30 and 3:30 and no they were not in the same spot. Mom only caught one of Bokeh's demos. She was sad she missed me doing my agility thing.
Most of the photos we took were before the crowd arrived because after that point mom was busy trying to get some Weimaraners adopted and dad was busy with us.
Some of the vendors
Mom was excited. She found a booth giving our big sample bags of Orijen. Considering my food is so expensive mom was happy to get a sample bag for when we go out of town and stuff they are easy to pack and take with us.
Our pals, Bling, Bazooka and Bella were they. They had to enter the Fashion Show and scored third place. Way to go!
Some of the disc demos
Our favorite vendor who keeps all the events and back yards cleaned up
More of the event
There was so much to do, they had agility, disc dog, dock diving, therapy dogs, fashion shows, TONS of free samples, cool things the rescue groups were selling. We can't wait for Wagfest again next year.
Here are some videos for those who have time to watch them. Here is Bokeh doing part of the disc dog demo.
Here is a video of my dad getting "jumped" by Rizzo
This is Bella with her dad Matt doing a demo at Wagfest as well
and her sister Bazooka
Last but not least here are some photos that our friend Lynn Fausnaugh took at the agility demo.
Me doing the weaves (ick, I don't like the weaves)
So today is our big day. We head over to the photographer for our head shots to be considered in the finals of the Mutts and Company model search. There are 50 that got selected and they will narrow it down to just 10.
Bokeh had to go get a bath and some fur cuts last night. A friend of ours from our training club has her own grooming mobile and also owns Aussies so we knew she would do a good job on him.
He had to get suds up
Then he got dried off
Got a pawdicure
She had to use seven different brushes to get the rest of his puppy coat off
You're going to cut what?!?!?!
This is what Bokeh had to say about getting a bath (sticks his tongue out)
Got his ears trimmed up
Bokeh before:
Bokeh after:
and the best part....Bokeh being a cry baby getting a bath in video
