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8 autumn activities for New York dogs | thepupdiary.com

It’s our favorite season! Cooler weather, outdoor doggy festivals, Halloween pawties, and so much more doggy fun! We listed some activities for New York dogs for spring and summer. Here are our top picks for fall:

Apple Picking
Discover Outdoors has planned some dog-friendly apple picking day trips this fall for active pups and their owners. The day activities include a moderate 6-mile hike before visiting the orchard. Cost is $89 and includes transportation.

We’re walking over the Hudson River

Long Walkies
We love saying buh bye to hot and humid NYC weather and welcoming in the pawfect temps for long walkies! Fall offers many group walks like the upcoming Strut Your Mutt on September 28. The weather is also pawfect for the Walkway over the Hudson and the path along Hudson River Park. We want to Stroll to the Sea on October 12 with ARF!

Fairs and Festivals
Tis the season for outdoor festivals and fairs! The My Dog Loves Central Park Fair will be held on October 5. Old Westbury Gardens will host their dog days September 28 and 29. Taste of France comes to Bryant Park September 28 and 29. And the holiday shops at Bryant Park open on October 26.

Halloween Pawties
October is probably the busiest month to be a dog in NYC! There are several doggy Halloween parties and parades every October weekend. The Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade on October 26 is probably the biggest. Check the event calendar for a listing of pawties and events.

Tompkins Square Dog Parade

Home Cooking
We just bought the new cookbook, Home Cooking for Your Dog, and we are excited to try all of the recipes! Yum!!

School
Andrea Arden Dog Training has a great lineup of classes this fall including Cures for Cabin Fever, Stay Workshops, and Taking it to the Streets. Fashion Institute of Technology offers their course in Pet Product Design and Marketing.

At the beach on Block Island

Window Shop
We love to tour the city and check out all of the beautiful holiday window displays. We check out all of the windows at the biggest department stores.

Top Hat and Tails
Fall is a great time to get dressed up! We’ll head to the dog-friendly SPCA of Westchester’s Top Hat and Tails event on October 18. Celebrity Catwalk’s Tinsel & Tails on December 7 is another one of our faves!

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Anthropologie unleashes #SitStayLove events | thepupdiary.com

18 Sep

How cool is this?! One of our favorite stores, Anthropologie (they always carry cute doggy-themed merchandise), will host doggy events all across the nation this coming weekend! There will be adoption events, pet supply drives, and other special events.

The New York City stores have teamed with Animal Haven Shelter for pet adoptions. We will check out the book event on Saturday featuring Home Cooking for your Dog at the SoHo location. The Rockefeller Center location has a very cute doggy art gallery (photos below) with items for sale.

Find a #SitStayLove event near you and join the fun!

Rockefeller Center Anthropologie

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Bark in the Park with the Brooklyn Cyclones | thepupdiary.com

29 Aug

We love dog-friendly baseball games! We get to run in the field, eat hot dogs, hang out with our doggy friends, and did we mention eat hot dogs?! Earlier this year we checked out the Mets at Citi Field. Last night, we headed to Brooklyn for the Bark in the Park with the Cyclones.

On the field with the Brooklyn Cyclones

The game is held at MCU Park in Coney Island. The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals had adoption vans with cute adoptable animals. We sat in the bleacher section, which was renamed the “BOW-WOW zone” for the night.

Doggy disco walking the field in the dog parade!

After the game we walked on the dog-friendly Coney Island boardwalk. (We tried to walk on the beach, but dogs are not allowed.)

Upcoming Bark in the Park with the Mets will be held on September 9 and 14 at Citi Field.

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Doggy Dash in Central Park | thepupdiary.com

15 Jul

Doggy athletes competed in Animal Medical Center’s 5-mile Doggy Dash race through Central Park yesterday morning. The doggy event, part of the Aquaphor NYC Triathlon, sells out every year. The pups were checked by Animal Medical Center’s medical staff before, during, and after the race. And the after-race festival featured cooling stations with swimming pools, beverages, and Yappy Treats Cart doggy yogurt. Yum! A big congratulations to all of the doggy athletes! You make us proud!

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Bow wow WOW for Broadway Barks | thepupdiary.com

15 Jul

We headed to Shubert Alley Saturday afternoon to check out the 15th annual Broadway Barks pet adoption event. We went early because it was hot outside and the event tends to get very crowded with people looking to adopt animals and meet Broadway stars.

Shubert Alley gets ready for Broadway Barks

Founded by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore, Broadway Barks has seen hundreds of animals find forever homes through this annual event. Animal shelters and rescue groups from the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals line the Alley and part of 45th Street with adoption information tables and adoptable animals. Mom was approached several times to see if we were available for adoption. Nope! But we both did have similar starts as shelter pups looking for homes! We wanted to spend the afternoon at the Stella & Chewy’s table looking for treats!

Bernadette Peters signs our book

On Sunday, while shopping for dinner at our local pet shop, we met a doggy who had been adopted the day before at the event. He was so cute and had a sad story with a happy ending. Someone had left him in Brooklyn tied to a tree. Thankfully some kind folks found him and took him to BARC Shelter where he got care before his adoption. So happy he found his forever home! We’ll bark to that!!