Old blankets for furbabies...

As you do your spring cleaning, if you have any blankets, sheets or towels that are too worn to keep, please consider donating them to our blanket drive for Dag's House dogs. Dag's House does doggie rehab, as well as some animal rescue, and goes through a lot of laundry. Like all animal welfare organizations, they are always in need of donations of blankets, etc. You can drop off any donations on our front porch, anytime between now and March 21st: 1233 Fern Street, New Orleans, LA.

What a beautiful day for DDA!

11am - 4pm @ The Big Lake Lawn - City Park!  

Today! Santa Paws NOLA

LA-SPCA+Santa Paws NOLA: Kick off the HOWLiday Season Sun., Dec.1st a Holiday-themed pet costume contest, and 2nd line to "Christmas In The District"

Mission

Santa Paws NOLA Mission: To create a family friendly pet oriented annual Holiday Celebration enhancing the "Christmas in the District" experience while supporting a local non-profit.
LA-SPCA- http://www.la-spca.org/

Description

Louisiana SPCA has teamed with Santa Paws NOLA to create a unique Holiday-themed pet costume 2nd line parade including a Christmas pet adoption opportunity. Located in the Warehouse District attracting pets, pet owners, families, and merrymakers to experience New Orleans Christmas Magic within the setting of the newest light showi in New Orleans "Christmas in the District”. Santa Paws NOLA is the brainchild of Diane Lyons, owner of ACCENT on Arrangements, presented in partnership with the LA-SPCA and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the LA-SPCA to assist pets at the LA-SPCA to have a Merry Christmas.

General Information

Louisiana SPCA and Santa Paws NOLA: Sunday, December 1st from 2:00-5:00p.m. Warehouse District

2:00p.m.: Heritage Park- (corner of John Churchill Chase St, New Orleans, LA 70130) and Convention Center Blvd.
$15 registration includes, pet activities, 1 complimentary beer or beverage and nibbles including Jambalaya Girl, information booths from local pet businesses.

3:15pm – Second Line Pet Parade starts at entrance of Heritage Park. Brass Band, pets and pet owners, parade down Convention Center Boulevard to Convention Center Pedestrian Plaza –Julia and Convention Center Blvd.

3:45pm- Second Line arrives at Convention Center Plaza. Activities at Convention Center Plaza include LA-SPCA adoption booth, vendors with pet holiday gifts, photos with Santa Claus, and music.
4:00pm- Holiday Pet Costume Contest- celebrity judges will name Top 3 best in Show. Great Prizes to be won.
5:00pm- Santa Paws ends and "Christmas in the District Lights" - the largest Christmas Light Display in NOLA begins. 

Saturday!

MORNIN!

French Quarter Fest!

French Quarter Fest is next weekend and it is getting a bit crazy!  If you need us, please email ASAP and we will get you all set.  I always say... I don't think it is real conducive to bring pups.  It gets a bit crowded!  

Save the date y'all! Sunday the 7th @ City Park

Nicole,

Come out to City Park's Big Lake Lawn this Sunday April 7th at the 31st Annual Dog Day Afternoon. Have fun with the free festival’s NEW attractions including contests, demonstrations and photo booth PLUS pet-friendly vendors, kids tent, food, drinks, and live music by Burger n Fries.  Spread your blanket out and enjoy the day’s entertainment with emcees and judges including WWL's Melanie Hebert, WDSU's Damon Singleton and Saints' Brian De La Puente.

It's also not too late to pre-register for the Gatsby Strut, Louisiana's original dog walk-a-thon.

Why Pre-Register?

Our pre-registered walkers who raise $25 or more are eligible to win two JetBlue tickets from ANYWHERE to ANYWHERE they fly (Value $1800). Restrictions may apply.
The first and second place fundraisers can choose a pet to be featured as a Chair Dog for Dog Day Afternoon 2014, which includes their photo on our event shirt program and 2014 LASPCA Calendar.  Click here to meet our 2013 Chair Dogs.
Win the following prizes based on your fundraising level:
$25, you get the official Dog Day Afternoon T-shirt and NEW tote
$50, you get everything listed above and the NEW Official matching Dog Day Afternoon pet bandana
$100, you get everything listed above plus a recognition ribbon and a LA/SPCA ball cap
$250, you get everything listed above plus the NEW LA/SPCA 125th anniversary travel mug
We look forward to seeing you and your furry friends on Sunday April 7th!

Schedule of Events

10:30 AM
Day-Of Registration starts for The Gatsby Strut, our Dog Walk-A-Thon
Registration Tent and Tote proudly sponsored by Canine Connection and NO Fleas Market

11 AM - 4 PM
Pet-Friendly Vendors, Games, Beer & Margarita Bar, Food Court, Kids Tent

11:30 AM - 3:30 PM
NEW Paws-itively Fun Area,
sponsored by PETCO Foundation, featuring:
Demonstrations
Zak George from Animal Planet
Pet-Friendly Gardening
Make Your Own Dog Treats
Contests
Best Dressed, Silly Pet Tricks, Dog/Owner Look-Alike
($5 registration per competition)
Plus NEW:
"Dare to Share" Dog vs Owner Little Eatz Treat Eating Contest

12 PM - 4 PM
Pet-Friendly Flipbook Photo Booth
sponsored by Canine Connection
Create a fun Dog Day Afternoon souvenir with your pet!

All proceeds benefit the Louisiana SPCA.
RSVP on Facebook.    
Can't attend? Donate.

Special thanks to our sponsors:
 
Big Barks to J. Coller Ochsner, M.D. and The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation
and a Howl Out to New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles magazine for their generous support!

The Louisiana SPCA
1700 Mardi Gras Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70114
Phone: 504-368-5191
Fax: 504-368-5108

Humane Society of Louisiana

• Rockers United for Furry Friends (RUFF) - this Friday! 
• Manhattan Athletic Club Spring Suppy Drive 
• Feral Cat Conference Information and more... 

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Spring-Events-Help-Animals.html?soid=1101782845483&aid=jvPKkIThHWw

NOLA Zombi Pub Crawl!

Register @ www.nolazombi.com

4.20.13 ~ Magazine Street

Zombi Walk & Pub Crawl to benefit the Louisiana SPCA & the Jefferson SPCA and presented by NOLA Zombi will be held on Saturday, April 20th from 4:00pm-‘til.  Participants will masquerade as zombies for this evening of music, bar hopping and excitement along New Orleans' Magazine Street corridor.  Everyone in attendance will receive a FREE NOLA Zombi t-shirt, 2-for-1 drink specials at Balcony Bar, Rendezvous Tavern, Parasol's and Tracey's Pub.  After the event, stay around for the Apocalypse After Party at Half Moon Bar & Restaurant for a costume contest, music, more drink specials, and a chance to win one of two autographed Saints footballs! Advanced discounted registration is available at http://nolazombi.com/ and check-in for registered participants will be at Balcony Bar from 4:00-5:30pm on the date of the event.  More details are available by following @NOLAZombi on Twitter, on Facebook.com/NOLAZombie  or at info@nolazombie.com
LOCATION:	Magazine St.
FEES:	For libations
CONTACT:	info@nolazombie.com
CALENDAR:

PlayNOLA - Finder's Fete: A Holiday Scavenger Hunt

This sounds like great fun and helps support LASPCA!




PlayNOLA - Finder's Fete: A Holiday Scavenger Hunt:

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Who wants to come to New York with us?

Sunday @ City Bark (from an email)

PLEASE COME OUT ON SUNDAY IN COSTUME FOR OUR HOWLoween Pawty and Pawrade.  If you can volunteer, please let me know.  If you just want to come and Pawty and Pawrade, that would be great as well.  The grand prize is a 2013 free membership for 2013 and there is no cost to enter the contest.  Details below.

It’s ‘Howloween’ Pawty Time at NOLA City Bark
this Sunday!

Grab your Halloween costume, dress up your canine -- and join the NOA City Bark Board and members for our firstHowloween Pawty & Costume Parade this Sunday, Oct. 14 from 2 pm to 5 pm.

We’ll have prizes for best costumes and a parade as well at 2:30 pm. Costume categories include: best large dog, best small dog, most original costume, best couple (this would be human/dog or dog/dog couple), and best group (group of dogs or dogs and people).

Bob Becker, City Park CEO, will award the prizes and Catherine Shreves, host of NOLA Marketplace on WGNO (ABC) and NOLA 38(CW) will be the emcee. Ana Zorilla, executive director of the LA/SPCA and volunteers from other rescue groups will judge. First prize is a 2013 permit to the dog park.

In the true Halloween spirit, Marie Laveau will offer a voodoo blessing for the dog park.

The Body Shop from Lakeside Mall will be on hand to offer pampering paw rubs for dogs and their humans and Be Sweet Cupcakes will provide treats for the humans. Marcella’s Bowtique will have special Halloween decorated bows for humans and scarves for canines for sale and we’ll be selling NOLA City Bark t-shirts, onesies and dog tees at special clearance prices. You can also purchase your 2013 annual permits.
We’ll even have pet photographer, Erika Bresee of Free Air Photography, to capture your canine’s costume moment. After the event you can view the photos at www.freeairphotography.com. If you are looking for a pooch pal or another addition to your pet family, we will have some adoptables in their pawty vests looking for their forever homes.

Of course we’ll serve both food and drink from local purveyors.

So start your Halloween celebration this Sunday at NOLA City Bark. The pawty is free and open to all members and their dogs.

This is always a great event!

Saturday ~ 10.13.12

4pm - 8pm

@ Canine Connection 

If you go, text me!  Also, please bring an unopened bag or can of cat or dog food for the LA/SPCA Food Pantry.  

RedRover Responders Volunteer Training

I am so pleased to be able to host this event for RedRover.  This is the perfect time of the year to be holding this workshop and I hope that you will consider attending.  

More on RedRover ...  

The RedRover Responders volunteer corps are the backbone of our efforts to provide lifesaving care and sheltering for animal victims of natural disasters, puppy mills, hoarding, and other cases of cruelty and neglect. Volunteers come from across the United States and Canada and from all walks of life, but they have one thing in common: a commitment to helping animals in need.

Our unique training program combines the ease of self-paced online training with a community-building workshop. Volunteers emerge from the training program feeling connected with the resources they need to be successful RedRover Responders volunteers.

Workshop:  7.28.12

Website

Facebook Event page

Again, please consider taking the time to do this... you will not be disappointed!

THURSDAY is Pause4Dinner

Go out for a great cause!  

Thanks DH for correcting me! xox

Great, dog friendly, this weekend....

Looking for something to do this PM?

TONIGHT!!

Friday, March 2 from 8:00pm-2:00am

Allways Lounge and Theater
2240 St Claude Ave.

$10 entrance fee

The Hair Ball, Battle on the Catwalk

Style Guru John Delgadillo, founder of ALEGRIA The Fashion Show, is now adding a first day to the ALEGRIA calendar making the ALEGRIA event 2 days long. The first Day of ALEGRIA will be called THE HAIR BALL "Battle On The Catwalk" and it will feature some of New Orleans best hair stylist showcasing their creative hair talents in a mad dash to become the South's MOST CREATIVE HAIR TEAM or SOLOIST. This event will benefit the LOUISIANA SPCA and any money made from this event will go directly to the LOUISIANA SPCA's Low Cost Animal Clinic. We encourage you to come to the event with your most creative and crazy wig ideas/ costumes. After all it is THE HAIR BALL. There will be music and dancing. There will be a fabulous creative hair battle on stage, and of course, there will be you in a fabulous wig and frock strutting your stuff around the crowd serving fierceness in every way. BAM BAM! THAT! *This event will be hosted by Mike Theis from WGNO's News With A Twist with his Twisted segments. *Possible Guest appearance of a cast member of SORDID LIVES. *There will be a mini buffet with finger foods and snacks for all to enjoy. Sponsored in part by SUCRE The Sweet Boutique. * Cafe Royale will be sponsoring some delicious finger foods for all to enjoy. *Nadiyah Skyy will be performing her hits SEXY BEAST and I WANT MONEY with her get it girl back up dancers. *There will be Astral Dancers in full affect. *D.J.DWILL will be spinning on the 1's and 2's all night long. BAM BAM THAT! *ALICIA ZENOBIA will also be showing off her Hair Dress Collection on still models which is reason to come in its self.

MUTTS IN THE MARIGNY

Mutts in the Marigny is this weekend at St. Paul Lutheran Church located at 2624 Burgundy Street between 1pm - 4pm.  They will be having local Vets and vendors, and plenty of adoptable dogs.  Sounds like a great event!

Mystic Krewe of Barkus 2012

February 12, 2012

Barkus XX

Mission: Impossible - Canine Protocol

Armstrong Bark Reloaded

PETFEST 2011 ~ The Pawsuit Happiness Party

Freinds of The Jefferson Animal Shelter

The Party Where Pets Bring Their People

November 13,2011

10am - 4pm

Lafreniere Park - Metairie, LA 

Free Admission

Pet Adoptions ~ Pet Marketplace ~ Pet Health Watch ~ Pet Games & Contests ~ Pet Demonstrations ~ Pet Information ~ Delicious Food ~ Live Music

Hosted by Friends of  the Jefferson Animal Shelter & the Jefferson Parish Animal Shelter

www.friendspetfest.org