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July 1, 2008

Visionary Museum presents "Pets on Parade"

The American Visionary Arts Museum will celebrate the Fourth of July with its annual pet parade and talent show Friday.

(If you missed last year's, you can click here for some video.)

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. for the talent show, which, in years past, has featured such memorable pets (and talents) as hermit crabs re-enacting Revolutionary War battles, singing dogs, dancing dogs and corn on the cob eating dogs. visionary.jpg

The parade comes first -- a lap around AVAM's campus, which will be equipped with doggie pools for your pooch to cool off. Trophies will be awarded for Best Costume, Most Patriotic, Owner & Pet Look-alikes, Least Likely to Succeed as a Pet, and more – including the Most Visionary Pet Award.

Pets of all kinds are welcome, in costumes of all kinds, but must be leashed or carried, and owners are responsible for behavior and bodily functions -- both their pets and their own.

If you can't wait until July 4 to start partying with your dog, bring him or her along to the museum's outdoor movie night in Federal Hill Park, which Thursday will feature Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

The free movies are shown every Thursday night on a 30-foot screen on one of the museum's exterior walls, under the museum's Giant Golden Hand. they start at 9 p.m. The museum remains open until 9 p.m. on movie nights. In the event of rain, movies are shown in the Jim Rouse Visionary Center.

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About Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
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