Another parade!

Callie here

Droopy and I got to go to another doggie parade last Sunday. Yes another one!!!!!!!!!!!! There have four doggie parades in and around our city in the past couple of weeks. The other two parades have been on, what momma calls, the North Shore and we didn't go to those cause Droopy doesn't like car rides that much and the North Shore is a bit of a ride.

The doggie parade on Sunday was called Arfus! It was next to Zephyr Stadium, which is where our local baseball team plays. There is also a nice park next to the stadium, called LaSalle Park. It has a nice walking paths for humans and doggies.

When we first got there it was crowded, there was loud music and lots of booths to look at. We decided to go check out the booths before the parade started. There were food booth, rescue group booths, the LASPCA, store booths, and lots of other neat booths.

While we were walking around Droopy made a beeline for the Great Dane Rescue booth. Momma said to Droopy "Boy are we in the wrong tent!!!" The lady that runs the group heard momma and said "Come see!!!!"

Look what we found!!!

A Basset Hound and a Great Dane living in harmony!!!!!

The lady who ran the Great Dane rescue said the basset hound had lived with a big shepherd doggie and the shepherd had passed away the owners didn't want the basset hound anymore!!!!!!!! How sad!! Well the great dane lady use to doggie sit the shepherd and the basset hound and she agreed to adopt the basset hound!!!!! How great is that!!!!!!!!!!! She said that the basset hound's name is Lucy, she is 14 years old and mostly deaf and blind. The Great Dane lady was happy to see us and said that Lucy perked up a lot while we were there!!!!

We decided to walk around some more and dad saw this sign.

Look who showed up for the parade! Missy and Super-Cisco!!!!!


Finally it was time for the parade!!!


That's Gumbo! He's is the mascot doggie for our football team, the Saints!!!!

We were getting antsy and a bad little boy kept giving us kibbles, without asking momma or dad, so we moved down the line of the parade and we met this cute guy!

His name is Freddie! And his momma thinks he's part basset hound and part catahoula!! He was short and long like us but had a really neat bridle spotted coat!

We decided to go check out the booths again, since most of the humans and doggies were watching the parade! While we were walking around a lady came up and told Momma about two basset hounds at the LASPCA. The lady tried to convince Momma to adopt these two doggies. Momma had to go check it out so off to the LASPCA booth we went. The LASPCA lady told Momma that the basset hounds had been adopted the week before!! We were all very happy about that! Apparently a lady had come to look at the two basset hounds and debated and debated. Finally the LASPCA had an adoption day last week and the lady showed up with two collars and leashes and said she'd take them home!!

Off to another booth we went and Momma bought us some new leashes, which we plan to use later in the year for a special human walkie!!! A lady at the store booth said she had a Droopy look-a-like named Priscilla!! Unfortunately Priscilla wasn't at the parade.

We wondered around a little more and ran into this guy!
It's ok if you don't recognize him!! He is a local artist named Jim Tweedy and he does neat doggie cartoon pictures!!!! If you look over his shoulder you can see a few, including the self portrait picture that momma keeps wanting to buy. Jim Tweedy does lots of different kinds of self portrait pictures including a basset hound one, which is the one momma wants. Momma says if you want to look at more of Jim Tweedy's pictures you can go here: http://www.friendlydoggies.com/

Finally it was time to go home!! We napped the entire way there!

Sniff ya later,
Droopy and Callie

Barkus parade Part 2

Droopy and Callie here

We're gonna finish our post about the Barkus parade.

So we walked down to the dog bakery and caught the parade across the street from the bakery. The parade got going and the costumes and floats were amazing. A float is like a big decorated car that costumed people ride in. People usually throw beads, which are like necklaces, during parades. Since Barkus is a doggie parade some people threw beads and some people threw doggie treats. Yum!!! We're gonna post pictures of the stuff we thought was best during the parade. Momma went a little crazy with that camera thing so there are way too many pictures for us to put up.

The beginning of the parade


Some neat floats




The best float we saw that day!

Some of the best costumes we saw




A spray painted Great Dane. We were kinda confused by this costume. Why would a human change there puppies spots??? A Great Dane Saints fan. Two labrachicks, dressed like cheerleaders. There was a Mango puppy, who was dressed as a Saints fan.

Finally the parade ended. Our Me-me wanted us to take a picture with our momma.
So we tried and tried to take a picture and this was the best one.

Then we got to go into the dog bakery.

Momma cut our trip inside the bakery short because Droopy kept trying to eat the cookies off the shelf. Luckily momma bought us some that we snacked on later.

Finally we headed back to the car. We had long way to walk back so we walked and walked and walked. Momma was wearing a pee-dometer, it tracks how far you walk, and we wound up walking almost THREE MILES!!!!!!!!!! We were beat!!!!

We had to drop our Me-me off and we decided to stay and visit for a while. Truthfully we napped a bit. Our Me-me is allergic to us doggies so we aren't allowed inside but she does have a nice porch upstairs. Momma has to pick us up, one at a time, and carry us through the house so we can hang out on the back porch. We don't mind it cause then we are high up and can watch the neighborhood and bark at all the other doggies.

Us on the back porch

Finally we headed back to our house. Momma says we slept very well that night.

Sniff ya later,
Droopy and Callie

P.S. Sorry about the delay on the second part of our parade adventure. Momma spent all of friday and the monday morning at the human vet. We'll do better this week!! Promise

Barkus parade Part 1

Droopy and Callie here

We intended to tell you guys all about the doggie parade we went to on Sunday but momma pointed out that a lot of the doggies that have been reading our bloggie probably don't know too much about how people in New Orleans would do a doggie parade. We're gonna try and explain as best we can and we do welcome any questions

The parade is called Barkus, also known as the Mystic Krewe of Barkus, it is a dog-only parade and the route travels through the French Quarter. We should explain that the French Quarter is where the city originally started. It's very old and has lots of pretty buildings. It's also has lots of yummy restaurants, nice hotels and famous bars.



Let's start from the beginning!!!!!

Momma loaded us into the car about two hours before the parade started but we had a ways to go and traffic gets crazy when it's parade time. We had to stop and pick up our Me-me, she's our momma's mom, and she was coming with us to the parade. It took forever to get from our house to where the parade was because traffic was really bad. Finally Momma parked and everybody got out unfortunately we were still blocks and blocks away from the parade! Momma put our costumes on for the parade. Callie was a Saints fan and Droopy was a hot dog. We should mention that every parade has a theme. The theme for Barkus this year was 'When the Dogs Go Barking In', which is a play on the song title When the Saint Go Marching In.



We walked and walked until we finally got to the parade route. Ok so we only had to walk 7 blocks but that's a lot for short basset legs. The closer we got the more puppies we saw. Everybody was in costume!!!!! Momma was gonna try and walk us down the street that had all the t-shirts and food but the street was super crowded so change of plan.

Momma decided that we should walk down to the dog bakery so off we went! We walked from Rampart St, down St. Ann all the way to Royal St. There were lots of people and doggies on the street waiting for the parade. Everybody thought Droopy's costume was so funny. They kept asking to take pictures with her. One person even called her a Lucky Dog. Momma said a Lucky Dog is a kind of hot dog they sell from carts in the French Quarter. They apparently taste yucky, but that's momma's point of view, and since Lucky Dog is a well known New Orleans icon Droopy was happy to be called a lucky dog.



We're gonna stop here for today. There's still a lot to write about!

Sniff ya later,
Droopy and Callie

P.S. Thank you for all the well-wishes for our momma. She's feeling a little better but has to go see a special stomach human vet tomorrow.

Wordless Wednesday From the Parade

Busy weekend!!!

Droopy and Callie here

We had a crazy weekend!!!! Momma told us Friday night that we were gonna have some friends sleep over on Saturday. We have a basset friend named Missy, who lives down the street, and her humans recently adopted another dog, a miniature schnauzer named Cisco.


This is Missy. She's been our friend for a while. She's very sweet and quiet. Momma says Missy has skin allergies, we're not sure what those are, but apparently Missy's belly gets all red and itchy and she has to take special medicine.


This is Cisco. Isn't he handsome????? Callie was totally goggly eyed over him.

Momma bought us over to Missy and Cisco's house before the sleepover so we could play and chase some tennis balls. We all played at their house for about an hour then moved back to our house.




We played and ran around almost all day so when it was bed time everybody was tired. Missy and Cisco kept stealing our beds but it's ok we know how to share.

Unfortunately we had plans on Sunday so our dad (yes we have a human dad he's usually very busy and we hang out with momma most of the time) stayed home to watch footbally stuff and he hung out with Missy and Cisco until their humans came home.

Now we know Callie was gonna share a surprise with the bloggie world and the surprise never showed. It's only cause our weekend got so crazy but here's the surprise!!!!!!!

We went to a doggie parade and got to wear costumes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We'll blog more about the parade tomorrow cause there's lots to tell!!!

Sniff ya later
Droopy and Callie

P.S. We're very sorry if our blog is a bit sporadic this week- our momma isn't feeling well. We spent yesterday afternoon all alone cause momma was at the human vet.

Special Surprise

Callie here

Momma bought me a special present from a neat pet store called Petcetera. Momma wanted to post a picture but I insisted on waiting!!!!!! I'll write more about my present in a few days.

I'll give you one hint: it has something to do with a doggie parade momma keeps mentioning.

Sniff ya later
Callie