Dog Days of Summer

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and the 50th anniversary of the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, these two establishments and many other sponsors from around the city of Lafayette have created the “Dog Days of Summer”. Forty-one artists gathered to create forty-one statues of dogs which were then scattered about Lafayette and West Lafayette. Today, my family split up into two teams and went on a scavenger hunt.

Thanks to vandals, about six of the dogs have been completely removed from the streets. The others have been moved into shop windows, lobbies, and the Art Museum itself. This made the hunt a bit difficult (not to mention taking pictures of the ones in store windows). But altogether, we achieved in finding thirty-one of the dogs. And we had a couple hours of one-way streets, circling blocks half-a-dozen times, impatience and fun. We ended it all at Culvers for frozen custard.

All of the dogs are creative and artistic. They’re unique, too, and many of them have very cute names. It’s quite hard to choose which ones to post here on my blog, but I limited myself to five. (And, no, I did not choose the one supporting Obama – too bad a vandal did get a hold of that one!)

“It’s a Dog Eat Dog World”

"Rosie T. Mayor"

(hint: the mayor of Lafayette is named Tony Roswarski)

"Pluto"

(my personal favorite)

“News Hound”

“Noah”