(AP) Charlottesville, VA 8/20/00 -- The best place to sniff and
be sniffed East of the Mississippi River was undoubtedly the First Annual
Dog Daze Festival which took place at Azalea Park on Sunday August 20,
2000. The party, sponsored by the cityofdogs.com, got off to a good
start at 2pm and wound up just before 6pm, when the last pile of "orphan
poop" was scooped away by the cityofdogs.com's Event Staff. The
event was planned as both a farewell party for Flash, Bliss, and Jasmine
(and their respective Significant Human Others) and as a celebration of
the reopening of Azalea Park to dogs off-leash.
The festival was well-attended despite the fact that Chester's, Toby's
and Orion's Significant Human Others completely missed the party because
they had gotten so caught up in "Survivor fever" that they each
came to believe they had already been "voted off the dog park." Accordingly,
they spent the day trying to line up lucrative endorsement deals. (Actually,
they have all been voted out, but we still wanted them to come to
the party just for laughs). Meanwhile, Sasha,
the reigning Dog of the Month, was unable to attend because she
was in New York taping an interview with Matt Lauer. Among the erstwhile
holders of the highly coveted Dog of the Month award who attended
the event were Clyde,
Sam, Tiyoo,
Kiwi, and Jasmine.
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One of the day's most notable developments was the fact that the Louisa
County Animal Shelter managed to find homes for the two dogs it brought
to the event.
Among the more remarkable features of this gathering was the fact that
the large bipedal quantity attending this function managed to behave reasonably
well. "I probably would have engaged in some type of criminal activity
this afternoon," said one perennial trouble maker who agreed to speak with
us only after we promised to preserve his anonymity, "but I didn't want
to embarrass my dog, Zack." The local police report that no actual arrests
were made.
According to a highly placed source within the cityofdogs.com organization,
planning has already begun for the Second Annual Dog Daze Festival -- top
executives within the CoD are now, according to this source, locked
in a heated debate over the precise meaning of the term "annual" -- i.e.
does this mean people years or dog years?...
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