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06/22/2007: "Friday was “Take Your Dog to Work Day”"

The Cartoon above was sent to us by a local artist who said they were inspired by the recent dog attack on a cow ); and informed us that Friday was “Take Your Dog to Work Day”.

It seems like there is a day dedicated to everything, and today, June 22 is the day to “Take Your Dog To Work”. It is not a “national” day, not even an “official” day. but rather a day that was picked back in 1999 by Pet Sitters International to be the day to haul the dog off to work, and perhaps not always find a warm welcome when you got there with pet in tow.

What it really seems to be is a clever advertising tool, with an estimated 300 or so companies that get involved in it; but it also has been used to push information about pet adoption programs, and that is a good thing. (Related Story on the 25th year of the Animal Protection Society in Friday Harbor) )

San Juan county, being sort of relaxed and laid back, has a long history of pets at work, including dogs in County offices (The island Guardian has a cat that “owns” the building on Blair Avenue, where she puts up with us). Sooo, just thought it was interesting, and posting it beats the hell out of trying to make some sense out of the two day Nantucket workshop that was held in Friday Harbor these last two days, and attended by about 75 people. We will post photos and a story next week. after we go through our 5 pages of notes.