LET DOG GAMES BEGIN LANCASTER'S BARK IN PARK FESTIVAL TO GIVE POOCHES A CHANCE TO SHINE.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Dogs will catch Frisbees, parade in costumes and pose with their owners in a look-alike contest Saturday at Lancaster City Park's annual Bark in the Park Bark in the Park is an annual festival for dogs and their owners in the San Jose, California, Naglee Park neighborhood, held on the third Saturday in September. It is a fundraising event hosted by the Naglee Park neighborhood's Campus Community Association (CCA). festival. Dog lovers can bring their pooches to compete in the contests, test their obedience and manners in the ``canine good citizenship'' ring, check their speed against a radar gun radar gun n. A usually hand-held device that measures the velocity of a moving object by sending out a continuous radio wave and measuring the frequency of reflected waves. or just hang out. ``It's good to get your backyard dogs out and get them socialized so·cial·ize v. so·cial·ized, so·cial·iz·ing, so·cial·iz·es v.tr. 1. To place under government or group ownership or control. 2. To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable. ,'' said Kyra Sundance, whose dog Chalcy has performed at the past two festivals and attended as a regular visitor before that. Sundance, a Leona Valley resident, and her Weimeraner, who has appeared with Jay Leno Jay Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. Biography Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York. on ``The Tonight Show,'' showed off some tricks at a brief City Hall demonstration Wednesday to promote the festival. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Lancaster City Park, 43011 10th St. W. Admission is free. Registration for the Frisbee contest and the best dressed, look-alike,best trick, best singing dog, and best human bark competitions will start at 9 a.m. The Frisbee-catching competition will begin at 10 a.m. The best-dressed, look-alike and other contests will go on at noon. Demonstrations will be given throughout the day by Sundance and Chalcy and by the K-9 Crush performing dog team. Other activities will include readings on dogs by pet psychic The Pet Psychic is a television show on the Animal Planet network about a woman who claims to be able to know how people's pets and certain other animals are feeling. Joy Mason and dog cardiopulmonary-resuscitation demonstrations by the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. . CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Kyra Sundance's Weimeraner Chalcy performs a jump over her during a news conference promoting Lancaster City Park's annual Bark in the Park festival. (2 -- color) Kyra Sundance, with her dog Chalcy, appear at a news conference. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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