ASPCA in the News: ASPCA Canine Talent Show (Photo Coverage)

BroadwayWorld.com
Monday, February 5, 2007

Skateboarding, carriage-pushing and piano playing pooches put their best paws forward during a Charm School & Talent Show at the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) on Friday, February 2 at 12 noon.

The talent show helped kick off "I Love NYC Pets" month, which features adoption events by various New York City animal welfare and rescue groups throughout February. Thirteen dexterous dogs, all available for adoption at the ASPCA, and their handlers trumped their many talents for a panel of celebrity judges that includes legendary Broadway actress and noted animal supporter Bernadette Peters (two-time Tony Award-winner for Song and Dance and Annie Get Your Gun, also Gypsy, Into the Woods, etc.), reality TV’s"Bachelor" Prince Lorenzo Borghese, hit HOT 97 FM DJ Angie Martinez, and the ASPCA’s Supervisory Special Investigator and star of the hit show "Animal Precinct," Annemarie Lucas.

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