FIRST ANNUAL SUPER ADOPTION DAY & SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO, Philadelphia, PA

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FIRST ANNUAL SUPER ADOPTION DAY & SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO
AT THE PIAZZA AT SCHMIDT’S
Help find a forever home for a pet in need!!!

THE PIAZZA AT SCHMIDT’S (www.atthepiazza.com) is thrilled to announce its FIRST ANNUAL SUPER ADOPTION DAY AND SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO WEEKEND AT THE PIAZZA on MAY 22 & 23 from 9AM to 4PM.

ABOUT THE PIAZZA AT SCHMIDT’S
BART BLATSTEIN, founder and president of TOWER INVESTMENTS, INC., the city’s leading development firm, opened THE PIAZZA AT SCHMIDT’S on Friday, May 15, 2009. THE PIAZZA is a beautifully landscaped, 80,000 square foot open-air plaza with free events year-round, surrounded by three new buildings including 35 artist’s studios and boutiques, four new restaurants, 500 apartments and 50,000 square feet of office space in the NORTHERN LIBERTIES neighborhood of PHILADELPHIA.

EVENT OVERVIEW
Are you looking to give a loving rescue animal their first forever home? Wonderful adoptable pets of all kinds will be here waiting for you at the FIRST ANNUAL SUPER ADOPTION DAY AND SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO WEEKEND AT THE PIAZZA on MAY 22 & 23. On Saturday, from 9AM to 4PM SUPER ADOPTION DAY will feature the vast majority of local and regional pet adoption and rescue groups, as well as some of the most well known pet-related retailers and service providers in Philadelphia including CITIZENS FOR A NO-KILL PHILADELPHIA, PAWS, PSCPA, OPPORTUNITY BARKS, PHILLY PET PAGES and more.

On SUNDAY MAY 23, THE CHIC PETIQUE and CHEZ BOW WOW take the reins of the FIRST ANNUAL SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO featuring the best pet-supply vendors, service provides, artists and crafters, and AMAZING PET CONTESTS such as CUTEST PUPPY, BIGGEST DOG, LITTLEST DOG, and BEST DOG COSTUME. If you’d like to participate in any of these contests, please call 215-467-4603 or email vendor@tower.dev.

Both days are action packed with SUPER ADOPTION DAY and the SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO featuring live music, food and drinks, special guests, shopping, vendors, and crafters all weekend long. RESCUE INK, the “tough-talking tattooed bikers” who “aren't afraid to use their verbal muscle-power to take the fight against animal abuse to the next level” have also just confirmed an appearance on May 22!

NOW ACCEPTING VENDORS OF ALL KINDS
Please contact us at: vendor@towerdev.com – 215-467-4603.

PARTICIPATING VENDORS:
Adoption Agencies

• Citizens for a No-Kill Philadelphia
• Philadelphia Greyhound Connection
• PSPCA
• Morris
• PAWS
• Blind Dog Rescue Alliance
• Adopt-A-Boxer Rescue
• Francisvale Home
• Big Hearts Cane Corso
• Second Time Around Rescue
• Hope for the Animals
• Pinups for Pitbulls
• CNKP Humane Ed
• Philadoptables
• New Leash on Life


AND MORE!

• The Chic Petique
• Chez Bow Wow
• Philly Pet Pages
• Kellianne Peterson
• Skeeter Dog Equipment
• Monster Minders
• Best Friends Pet Care
• Lindsay Richelle
• Lindsay Granger
• Girl.Bike.Dog
• Opportunity Barks
• Big Green Earth Store
• Doggone Manners
• Avery Mobile Pet Spa
• Philly Pack
• Rusty Bike Designs
• SmartPak Canine
• Boutique Fancy Fluff
• PhilaPets
• Happy Tails of Philly
• Pit Bull Advocate Inc.
• Tizzies Tags and More
• Mary Pawpins/Happy Tails
• Festival Food Management
• Career Wardrobe
• Peace for Puppies
• The Wardrobe
• Peace for Puppies
• The Wardrobe Boutique
• Temple Cats
• Peace for Puppies
• The Humane League
• Heather Fowler Photography
• 4 Dog Art
• PhillyPhaithful.com
• Domino Art
• Bow Wow Wow
• New Jersey Aid for Animals


WEEKEND AGENDA
SATURDAY, MAY 22 – SUPER ADOPTION DAY
• 9AM – 4PM - PIAZZA ARTISAN MARKET – A selection of Hand-Picked Artists and Crafters from all artistic disciplines and backgrounds
• 10AM – 4PM - FIRST ANNUAL SUPER ADOPTION DAY AT THE PIAZZA featuring the vast majority of local and regional pet adoption and rescue groups including CITIZENS FOR A NO-KILL PHILADELPHIA, PAWS, PSCPA and an appearance by RESCUE INK!
• 10AM – 3PM - PIAZZA FARMERS MARKET - The region’s largest independent farmer’s market featuring over 25 local, sustainable, and organic vendors
• 11AM - LIVE MUSIC featuring performances by THE ATOMIC SQUARE, TIM MCGLONE, and JADED SON
• 2PM - HUMANE EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD PRESENTATION
• 4PM – 9PM – AFTER PARTY at P.Y.T. (www.pytphilly.com)

SUNDAY, MAY 23 – SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO
• 9AM – 4PM - PIAZZA ARTISAN MARKET – A selection of Hand-Picked Artists and Crafters from all artistic disciplines and backgrounds
• 9AM – 4PM - FIRST ANNUAL SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO AT THE PIAZZA featuring clothing and accessory designers, boutiques, make up studios, and more!
• 10AM – 3PM - PIAZZA FARMERS MARKET - The region’s largest independent farmer’s market featuring local, sustainable, and organic vendors
• 2PM - AMAZING PET CONTESTS such as CUTEST PUPPY, BIGGEST DOG, LITTLEST DOG, and BEST DOG COSTUME. If you’d like to participate in any of these contests, please call 215-467-4603 or email vendor@tower.dev.

FIRST ANNUAL SUPER ADOPTION DAY AND SCHMIDT’S PET EXPO WEEKEND
at the PIAZZA AT SCHIMDT’S
May 22 & 23, 2010 – 9AM – 4PM
The Piazza at Schmidt’s – 2nd Street & Germantown Avenue (Below Girard)
NORTHERN LIBERTIES, PHILADELPHIA

Join BFF in Helping Raise Money for Delaware County SPCA

  Help raise money for animals at Delaware County SPCA while shopping from www.ShopBFF.com ONLINE PET STORE's fundraising items of the month or using Coupon Code: BFFDelcoSPCA. "You'll be a BFF when you shop BFF!-TM as each item is hand selected by a Veterinarian for being either healthier for pets, higher quality products for pets, more Earth Friendly and/or helping enhance the human- animal bond. We carry products ranging from yummy eats/treats, toys, doggie bags and dispensers, spa, health and healing lines, keychains/gifts, collars and leashes, catnip galore and much, much more!

If your rescue or shelter would like to participate in our Rescue/ Shelter Fundraising Program please contact us by: CLICKING HERE

Baltimore, MD- Riptide by the Bay

-Riptide by the Bay: Friendly service, cozy sea faring atmosphere and some of the best crabs I have ever had! -
    Strolling along the Fells Point, MD waterfront I felt beckoned in as I noticed how content people were eating outside with their pooches and I was also in the mood for some Maryland crabs! My friend and I were curious to see what was going on down the side corridor of this cozy restaurant. So we went into explore the restaurant and the sea faring mural that was being completed on that day by the artist on the wall.

   Of the three basic seating options (indoors, outdoor cafe, or corridor outdoor) we were happy with sitting in the corridor, what can I say the mural just drew me in, made me feel like I was on holiday again in the Jimmy Buffet atmosphere of Key West!

   For a bubbly delight I started off with a delicious champagne cocktail called "Jacuzzi". We were even more impressed by tantalizing selection of bloody Marys ("Classic Mary", "Crabby Mary", "South of the Border Mary"). I wanted something to match the RBB old bay crabs (that I am now dreaming of while I write this post) so I chose the "Crabby Mary" as it was accented with had Old Bay and Pepper Vodka. I know you don't know me very well yet and this is one of my first restaurant posts (there are plenty more to come) but I always love to try new places and new things and I mean it when I say Riptide by the Bay serves the best crabs and Bloody Marys I have ever had! Scottie beam me back now!

   There are many other food (including Mexican) and drink selections that RBB has to offer. Please check out their menu: Click Here! I would also like to thank our super helpful waitress Crystal for her friendly service and their musician (his voice is amazing and his music selection is down right cool).

Signing off for now your BFF,
BV &
BFFEarth
"Live Earth to the Fullest!"-TM
Pet Friendly Places Rating: 3/5:  Sidewalk Cafe Seating

Riptide by the Bay:

1718 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD‎

(410) 732-3474‎

Photos:
Top two by BV of BFFEarth
Bottom photo: Click Here for Photo Reference

Save Planet Earth NOW- NEW Miley Cyrus Wake Up America Song - Boutique F...

"Wear it proud and shout it loud... there's only one Earth...it's in OUR hands!"-TM

"Wear it proud and shout it loud... there's only one Earth...it's in OUR hands!"-TM

    Boutique Fancy Fluff's "There's only one Earth" product line (human shirts, matching pet tees and recycled material very roomy & Sturdy Earth Carry Tote **) is the symbol of a new era of lending a helping hand while we still can, whether it be at a local shelter, partaking in a marathon striving for a cure, standing up for a social cause or helping a charity in anyway that you can.

   Not only do proudly wearing these shirts for human, kitty and big & lil' pooch alike represent a collective banding together to make Mother Earth a better place for us all to live in, but it is also designed to help raise money for different causes. Pick up your "There's only one Earth" product (s) this month and help raise money for local shelters such as the Delaware County SPCA. If you would like to help raise money for your Earthly Cause with "There's only one Earth" product line please contact us: click here!

    Veterinary run in the city of brotherly love Boutique Fancy Fluff is "the Healthier, Happier, more Earth Friendly Online Pet Store!"-TM  Items are hand selected for either being safer for pets (*), higher quality materials or design, more Earth Friendly, made in the USA, helping enhance the human-animal bond or with an Earth Friendly message. BFF continues to add more products on a regular basis and currently features our Toys, Earth Line Items, Yummy Treats, Pet Beds, Tees, 100% Degradable Pooper Bags ( in ~60-70 days), Collars and Leashes, Bows, Dresses, Key chains/ Gifts, Catnip and more... Coming soon healthier food options!


Love your BFF
Boutique Fancy Fluff
and Dr. Bonnie V., VMD

*Note: Nothing on this beautiful planet is 100% safe! You should always monitor your pet with any pet product and contact your local Veterinarian should you have any questions or concerns.

** Adopted pets not included in this BFF Earth carry tote! Please Adopt! There's enough furry love to go around and not enough homes! Philadalphia's Super Pet Adoption Day (Saturday May 22nd) is approaching fast! For more details click here:

New Lives- BFFEarth's Featured book of the Month! Raise money for animals in need!

Featured Book of the Month! "New Lives" See details! - Stories of Rescued Dogs, Helping, Healing
and Giving Hope! by Joanne Wannan Forward by Dr. Marty Becker
.
During the month of April, a total of 30% of the profits from the sale of the book will be donated to animal rescues.

This book is a great gift - not only for you, but for all the animal lover on their list!

NEW LIVES: Stories of Rescued Dogs Helping, Healing and Giving Hope, a  book by Joanne Wannan, presents of stories of hope and inspiration - where the “underdog” really does triumph in the end!  The heroes in the book are an unlikely assortment of dogs who were rescued from shelters and the streets. They have gone on to love, serve, and in some cases save the lives of the compassionate individuals welcomed these abandoned canines into their hearts and lives.

     The book tells of the amazing ways these rescued dogs are working as animal therapists or as service dogs, and how lives - both human and canine - are forever changed.  One is Leo, a pit bull rescued from Michael Vick's dog fighting operation, who now visits patients in a chemotherapy ward, and acts as an ambassador for all dogs at a facility for juvenile delinquents.
Another is an abandoned canine who went on to become a service dog for a hearing impaired gentleman. Not only does Beans alert her owner to the doorbell and telephone - she actually saved his life by waking him up and alerting him to a fire!

 

      The foreword is written by Dr. Marty Becker, resident veterinarian on Good Morning America, and co-author of Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul. Cover endorsements are from the ASPCA and the Humane Society. This book is a testament to the powerful bond between humans and dogs, and affirms the belief that it is never to late for miracles.

Buy YOURS NOW: CLICK HERE

Welcome to EARTH DAY Love Boutique Fancy Fluf!

So let me just preclude the entries below with a quote I "unearthed" while on the
 journey of composing this article that really stuck with me:
"If people really understood the connection of environmental damage to their own lives, they
would be much more motivated to preserve and protect the environment."
--Dr. Eric Chivian, director of Harvard's Center for Health and the Global Environment,
in Veterinary World, Spring 1999.