An Illinois-based pet food company is sponsoring a seder for dogs in a Chicago suburb to promote its line of kosher pet foods. Evanger's Dog and Cat Food Co. of Wheeling, Ill., has been sponsoring seders around the country for the last several years, says owner Holly Sher.

This Saturday the event will be held in a Lakeview, Ill., pet store with prizes given for the dog that can best sing the four questions and the dog that finds the hidden matzoh. However, in the past there has been trouble finding a winner in that contest. "None of the dogs like matzoh," Sher says.

Sher says she has never had a problem with critics saying the event is in poor taste. "If they want to criticize, don't come," she says.

While Evanger's Dog and Cat Food is sold in pet stores in the Baltimore area, Sher says Baltimore has never hosted a seder for dogs. Maybe next year?

Photo by Joshua Lott, courtesy of Evanger's Dog and Cat Food.