By Victoria Bourne
Correspondent

According to groomer Rebecca Harner, if you're looking to spoil and pamper your canine companion, Preppie Pooch is the place to do it.
"We've tried to make it look like a human day spa," she said.

By Cyndi Kight
Correspondent
VIRGINIA BEACH
This Saturday, pet lovers can break out their bell-bottoms, tie-dye T-shirts and love beads to help some of the city's unwanted animals.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Red Wing Park will be the site of the first Woofstock presented by Virginia Beach Animal Control and the Virginia Beach Department of Health.

SUFFOLK
The city is overhauling its leash law after hearing complaints that the ordinance excludes dog owners in too many neighborhoods.
City Manager Selena Cuffee-Glenn said in a letter dated Oct. 19 that city staff was reviewing the ordinance. She was writing to respond to a complaint that the law did not cover several housing developments in the Chuckatuck area of North Suffolk.

FROM THE PROMOTERS:
31st Annual Walk for the Animals, presented by The Breeden Company, will be held today, Oct. 25, at Neptune's Park aka 31st Street Park at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront.

A pair of exotic animals isn't typically found in a pet store, but wander into Animal Jungle in Virginia Beach and you'll find a serval and marmoset.
Do the African wildcat and small monkey belong there?
While the store has drawn complaints - and the attention of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - owner Robert Hames says the serval and marmoset are well cared for.

Had artist Donna Iona Drozda tried, she could not have come up with a more creative depiction of Val, her Jack Russell terrier.
The papier-mache pup, in a play bow, mouth wide open, red tongue lolling off to the side, and a ball between its paws, has Jack Russell terrier written all over it.

Today's Bark in the Park at City Park in Chesapeake features vendors, animal rescues, games, contests, demonstrations, great food and more. Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

DockDogs Affiliated Club Series is making another stop in Chesapeake. The event this weekend is coordinated and sanctioned by DockDogs and presented by the Chesapeake Parks and Recreation Department and the Chesapeake Humane Society. Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

The Chesapeake Humane Society's 13th annual Bark in the Park will have everything dogs, and their human friends, love. Next Sunday's "Woofstock" will feature a kennel-full of competitions and demos, animal rescue groups, entertainment, pet first aid and health screenings, children's activities, low-cost microchips, vendors - and for the first time - a dog pledge walk.

Wild horses are, by definition, wild and free, right? uF06C They live on the open range, they fight nothing but the elements and the occasional cougar, they gallop through film and literature as the romantic symbol of the untamed American West.