A Doggone Good Time

The Westminster Kennel Club closes its annual competition at Madison Square Garden with the Best in Show presentation, and New York Insider was there to watch all of the barking good action. For our slide show, click here.

Why Should Tots Have All the Fun?

Dogs like toys, too, and for that reason (but also because every dog deserves a good loving home), Animal Fair's Wendy Diamond held a benefit party last night at Cipriani Wall Street in support of the Humane Society of New York. With their dogs in tow, spirited city dwellers turned out to sample a bit of holiday cheer while letting their pets get to know each other a little better. A very svelte Santa even showed up for the festivities, as you'll see in the photo album here.

Gone to the Dogs

We've all seen them on the streets of New York....hapless canines dressed in "cute" outfits by their owners. "Get me out of here," the dogs' eyes seem to plead, as the biped holding the leash grins from ear to ear about how adorable the ensemble looks on his or her pet.

Not so the dogs at Howlaween last night, an event benefitting the Humane Society of New York and sponsored by Wendy Diamond and Animal Fair magazine. Dressed as characters from the Big Bad Wolf to Shrek's Princess Fiona, Jackie O to hero pilot "Sully" Sullenberger, these pooches loved every minute of being in Halloween costume. Parading on a runway at M2 Ultralounge, in Chelsea, the dogs (and their costumed caretakers) delighted a standing-room-only crowd that came out to enjoy the kind of creativity that was truly something to bark about.

Celebrity judges for the night included the cast of National Geographic's Rescue Ink,  Real Housewives of New York's Ramona Bass and Miss Teen USA, Stormi Bree Henley. For more pictures of man's best friends lapping it up on the runway, click here.