Dancing With The Dogs In Dog-Friendly & Historic Downtown Dade City.
Dogs are celebrated in the very dog-friendly town of Dade City, so much so that they even have a special day just for dogs every year. Dogs’ Day in Dade City was held at Agnes Lamb Park on March 15. Proceeds benefited the Dade City Youth Council, an organization that has provided a dog training and exercise ring in the new My Dog’s Diggin’ Dade City Dog Park in Price Park. Community Pet Advocate, Lucy Avila and her team put together another fun, well-attended event. We saw many people and their dogs from all over the Tampa Bay Area. The event kicked off, as always with the dog wagon parade around the park, led by Miss Tampa, Katy Sartain and WPVC’s Abby Crawford of Ag Time With Abby. Then up on the stage for a fun dog costume contest with some pretty original and funny get-ups. As a media sponsor of this event, The New Barker donated a portion of sub- scription sales to the Dade City Youth Council. Photography by Anna Cooke.
The Chihuahua Meet-up Group of Tampa Bay met in Dade City for the morning, with a lunch date in St. Petersburg later in the day. Beatrice, Bindy and Lilly reminded us of the Supremes in their pink diva wear and Doggles.
Toby, a nine-year-old white German Shepherd Dog, dressed as a chef-to-be.
(Near right) Wren Walter and Sugar Boy, a diabetic alert dog trained by Sugar Dogs International, Inc. Wren is the youngest handler for Sugar Dogs. Learn more about this wonderful organi- zation at
SugarDogs.org. You may also contact Paula at
MySugarDogs@gmail.com. (Bottom right) Dog Mania & Cats’ newest store dog, is eight- year-old Bentley. The shop brought in some fun new toys they discovered at the Global Pet Expo trade show.
The start of the wagon parade.
Sugar Boy and Wren.
Princess Edelweiss and Edna.
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Bentley of Dog Mania & Cats.
Thistle Be The One is an 11-year-old Cairn Terrier. Spring ~ 2014 THE NEW BARKER 91
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