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HERE COME THE CANINES OF CARNIVAL!
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First an annual parade, and then the book, with all profits from the book benefitting animal charities.
In New Orleans every party animal has a back-story, his or her day, including the parading dogs of Mardi Gras season. They even have their very own parading-and-barking society, the Mystic Krewe of Barkus. Each year there is a different theme — costumes required, floats optional — and proceeds from parade registration and merchandising sales benefit local homeless animals and animal welfare groups.
When New Orleans' finest four-legged party animals take to the streets to revel in a rare and unique form of unabashed Mardi Gras madness, the town really goes to the dogs. Each year the procession follows a fifteen-block route through the Vieux Carré as swarms of international paparazzi snap photos and roll the cameras, capturing imagery of the one-of-a-kind dogluxe pawdy-party-parade.
The book, New Orleans' Mardi Gras Moon Doggies, is a cunning Louisiana-based regional and specialty pet book, a coffee table photo collection starring the beloved — and much-ballyhooed — dogs of Mardi Gras.
The reigning king and queen who lead the parade from atop their floats are crowned and coroneted dogs, followed by their local royal court of ritzy dukes and duchesses; then come the top dogs, leaders of the pack, lucky dogs and krewe members.
And so, the question is, who lets the storied show-off dogs out? Who allows these flamboyant creatures to take to the French Quarter streets en masse, parading, prancing and sniffing? Who allows them to do their own second-lining, padding behind bands and banner carriers? Of course, it is their two-legged slave companions, caretakers, dressers, handmaidens and escorts, the people who accompany their dogs in the annual Mystic Krewe of Barkus display of pageantry. Literally.
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Indeed, during Carnival season every dog small and large, blueblood or not, has a rare and unique opportunity to really strut his or her stuff as regal royalty, festooned in colorful regalia and finery and draped in oodles of beads and feathers. The world's ultimate party animals, distinguished members of the Mystic Krewe of Barkus are a cockeyed conglomeration of snooty and sassy sly dogs who roll through the French Quarter with snouts and tails held high. Man and beast dressed in fashion-forward costumery put on a show to remember, wooing their audience, and the bystanders lap it up and ask for more.
Other cities have adopted copycat-type events; however, the outrageous eccentricity of Mardi Gras Moon Doggies is strictly indigenous to New Orleans. Here is a fetching photo essay collection featuring the Crescent City's famed dogs, mutts, mongrels, hounds, pups, canines and "pooches" — all dolled up in their finest attire and spiffiest costumes! Beautiful and beastly! Funny, silly, frilly, satirical, feathery and risque! Sort of a "dogs in drag!"
Once a year, approximately 1,500 of the canine population — bejeweled and adorned in beads and feathers and more, along with their two-legged slave escorts — parade through the French Quarter for the spectacle. It is a great New Orleanian extravaganza. Not to be missed. And the sound effects are awesome, with plenty of woofers.
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An untold story that must be told. Lessons to be learned. Soulful narrative and powerful photography documenting the life-and-death struggle to save the silent soul of a city, the animals of New Orleans.
Remembering the four-legged victims and orphans of the storm.
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