Animal Fair Media’s Yappy Hour ® Rescue Tour
- Aspen, CO
- Boston, MA
- Chicago, IL
- Dallas, TX
- Denver, CO
- Los Angeles, CA
- Miami, FL
- Philadelphia, PA
- Portland, OR
- Salt Lake City, UT
- San Diego, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Seattle, WA
- Washington, DC
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As a connoisseur of all things pets, it didn’t take long for Animal Fair fabulous founder Wendy Diamond to realize that there aren’t enough opportunities to party with our pets. That’s why Wendy created Yappy Hour®, the first-ever benefit where people and pets can celebrate, raise money for homeless animals and seek puppy love.
Yappy Hour® is many things: a benefit, a mixer, and an adoption drive. At this must-attend benefit doggies and their guardians have the opportunity to mingle (and sniff) with other animal enthusiasts while enjoying puptails and hound-d’oeuvres. And forget awkward introductions, your dogs will make them for you! But don’t fear if you have no four-legged friend! The beauty of Yappy Hour® is that if you have no dog in tow, the Humane Society has local adoptable dogs on-site that party participants can rent during the evening for a small donation. Who knows, you might even fall in puppy love with your rented companion and take him or her home with both your tails wagging. After a few puptails, you’ll have a new addition to the family, and at Yappy Hour®, everyone goes home happy.
This year Wendy and Lucky are launching a sixteen-city Yappy Hour® tour promoting their new book It’s a Dog’s World, a culmination of a decade of their experience in the pet business, and of course, to promote what can come from true, unbridled puppy love! The tour kicks off in New York City on February 9th at Kimpton’s very pet-friendly Muse Hotel, just in time for finding puppy love for Valentine’s Day.
And if you can’t make it to the New York Yappy Hour®, Wendy and Lucky will be spreading the love this year in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Miami, Washington DC, Aspen, Denver, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, Dallas and Seattle. Sin up to the Wendy and Lucky Diamond facebook fan page, and the Animal Fair website for more information and dates on the Yappy Hour® coming to a city near you!
Wendy and Lucky Diamond Do Barkus – February 7, 2010
Everyone knows about the mystery and magic behind Mardi Gras in New Orleans (or what we used to refer to it in the Midwest as “Fat Tuesday”), but what about Mardi Gras’ sister, canine-friendly bash? The Mystic Krewe of Barkus is Mardi Gras’ sole canine-exclusive krewe, the equivalent of Bacchus (for humans), and this February Lucky and I will travel to NoLa for all the canine festivities and spectacle marking the seventeenth annual Barkus. We couldn’t think of a more perfect place to let loose and shake our tails than in one of our favorite cities, New Orleans, surrounded by dog lovers from all across the country.
The Krewe of Barkus was founded as a non-profit group in 1992 during a fan club meeting for WDSU Chief Meteorologist Margaret Orr. Less than two years later, the group was granted rights to prance, parade, and pound pavement in the streets of the French Quarter in the Big Easy. Each year the group picks a theme for dogs to don themselves in their finest garments and hit the streets a week prior to the official Mardi Gras festivities. Past themes have included: Jurassic Bark, Lifestyles of the Bitch and Famous, Tails from the Crypt and Wizard of Pawz. This year the theme is The Dogs Go Barking In, which means Lucky will not be scolded for doing her favorite thing: yapping. And with an event this big, we expect a lot of yapping to take place. A canine King and Queen of Barkus are also selected annually, the Queen always being a rescue or adopted dog, with all proceeds of the spectacle donated to local animal shelters.
Following the footsteps of Bacchus (remember, the human Barkus) Celebrity Grand Marshalls such as Hulk Hogan, William Shatner, Tom Arnold, Larry King, Bob Hope, Steve Guttenberg and my all-time celebrity crush, Drew Carey, Lucky and I are honored to have been selected as Barkus 2010’s Celebrity Grand Marshalls. As Chairperson (and Chairdog) to Katrina Animal Memorial Project, we feel so blessed to be a part of another incredible fundraiser for the animals of New Orleans, who, as their memorial states, “will never be left behind again.” Joining us will be the unofficial mother of Barkus herself, Margaret Orr and a slew of over 400 Barkus members dressed to the nines. This year Barkus is held on the same weekend as Super Bowl XLIV, and with the New Orleans Saints facing against the Colts this year, expect the festivities to get extra dogrageous.
If you can’t make it to Barkus this year and still want to do your part to help the animals of New Orleans, donate to the Humane Society of New Orleans at HumaneLA.org. Or we’ll see you there so let the dogs bark in!
Events
Going to an event with your pet can be a fun treat! Animal Fair Media hosts a bevy of annual pet friendly charity events that provide the perfect opportunity for your pet and you to socialize, while helping a pet-related cause.
Since its launch in 1999, we have originally created and produced exciting events including Paws For Style (the first celebrity and dog fashion show of its kind), Canine Comedy Halloween Party (top comedians lend their canine jokes for a good cause), Toys For Dogs (provides homeless dogs with a new toy for the holidays), and Yappy Hour®® (the premiere singles party for people and their pets)!
Whenever an animal enthusiast attends one of our events, they are doing more than having a great time; they are supporting a pet-related charity or organization. Our events have enabled us to work with charities across the world to help animals in need.
