State Fair Parade update

We are very excited to report that we won an award!
A major award!

Our clinic has walked with our dogs in the Iowa State Fair parade every year for the last four years. The State Fair parade winds through downtown Des Moines the night before the opening of Iowa's State Fair. As all Iowans know, "our State Fair is a great State Fair, the greatest State Fair in our State!"

And this year, our entry was also great!
We won "Best Use of the Fair Theme" for a commercial entry in the entire state fair parade!

The fair theme this year was: Nothing Compares.
We continued with our moving display from last year of "Dogs on a Stick". Myself and my enthusiastic staff dressed as food vendors, we decorated a van with sheeting made up to look like a food truck, and the patient dogs wore harnesses with cardboard sticks coming out of their backs. A placard atop the van stated: "Nothing Compares to the World Famous Dogs on a Stick".

Garbo, the Bernese Mt Dog, Cloud, the dalmatian,  Breeze, the border collie, Max, the maltese, and Gulliver, the chihuahua loved being petted by hordes of kids along the parade route.
Evidently the Parade judges liked what they saw as much as our dogs liked getting petted.

We will be featured on Iowa Public Televisions: State Fair 2013 on Monday August 12.