2008 Halloween Photo Contest Winners

Thank you to all of you who participated in our 3rd Annual Dog Halloween Photo Contest. We had another great year of pics and a some difficult decisions to make...

Here are the winners:

1st Place: Toby




2nd Place: Copper scaring off all the crows!




And we have a tie for 3rd: Harrison the rooster and Echo the scuba diver!

Dog Halloween Photo Contest Entries

Dog Halloween Photo Contest

Dog Halloween Photo Contest

Marine Mammal Training for Dogs?

After the Shedd's Oceanarium pavilion in Chicago was closed for refurbushing, the trainers were left with not animals to train. So Ken Ramirez, the Shedd's animal training chief decided to do something fun and new. They adopted six dogs from the local animal shelter and decided to train them. The dogs were all up for adoption, some turned in by owners, some where tied up and left to starve like Nico who is an American Bulldog mix. Olivia, who is a German Shephard was abused so much she was scared of humans.

With the trainers ready to teach, they set out to create a show (by using the marine mammal training regimen)called, "Pet Training the Shedd Way". It is a 20 minute show on how to train your dogs to be good house pets. It also encourages the attendees to adopt a dog from thier local shelter, showing that you can turn around a dog by using proper training techniques.

The show opens today and will run through next summer. They are hoping to keep it going when the Oceanarium reopens, but that has not been decided for sure.
If the show is closed when the Oceanarium is closed the workers are ready to adopt the dogs, they have won their hearts!

What a cute scuba doggie!
Harrison the 2 year old chicken!

Halloween Photo entries

This is Abby dressed up as a hotdog:



Here are Aladdin and Phoenix dressed up as a circus master and rare white tiger: