AROUND TOWN

Robin Bologna of Birmingham introduces

Bella, 3, to Bogey, 13, owned by Sandy

Menzel of St. Clair Shores.

GOING TO THE DOGS

Avy Schreiber of Southfield

entertained for the evening.

Accompanied by
four-legged friends,
author helps bring
in the bucks for
animal shelter.

ROBIN SCHWARTZ

COLUMNIST

PHOTOGRAPHY BY

BILL HANSEN

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FERRI:ARV 2005 • JNPLATINUM

hey say every dog has its day
— but at the recent Jeep 2004
Yappy Hour, dozens of pam-
pered pooches certainly had their night!
More than 100 lucky dogs mingled
along with about 160 animal lovers at
the cocktail party fund-raiser for the
Michigan Humane Society.
The Dec. 7 event, held at the Omni
Detroit Hotel, was complete with gour-
met "yappetizers" for the yuppie puppies
in attendance. "People just loved the
opportunity to show off their pets and
support a good cause at the same time,"
said Tricia Brosnahan, the Michigan
Humane Society's director of events. A
cage full of kittens and a few of the dogs
in the crowd also were up for adoption.
The Detroit party was the final stop
on a 15-city, cross-country tour spon-

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