Weather can't dampen spirits ASPCA colors New York orange for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month


Posted on Apr 10, 2009
By Julia Szabo


It's high rain and mud season, so the color orange is a brilliant beacon of visibility, whether it's on a dog collar and leash or a dog toy to play fetch with. And orange also happens to be the signature color of the ASPCA, which held its "Go Orange for Animals" event Tuesday night in New York City to celebrate April as Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month.

On hand and paw were Broadway, movie, and TV star Bernadette Peters; the officers from the ASPCA's Humane Law Enforcement division, the heroes of Animal Planet's show "Animal Precinct"; the X Brothers band; and numerous adorable adoptable animals from the ASPCA, all looking for loving new homes.

Bernadette Peters

At 7:30 pm, Peters flipped a switch that illuminated several of New York's iconic landmarks, including the Empire State Building, the Woolworth Building, Brooklyn Borough Hall, and the Mid-Hudson Bridge, flooding the city with ASPCA orange light.


Mighty March in Boston


Meanwhile, last week in Boston, Maria Menounos, TV personality and Human Ambassador to the Mighty Dog Nation, led a pack of nearly 200 dogs around Peters Park in the Mighty Dog March, dedicated to celebrating the "everydog." Menounos, stylishly dressed for drizzly weather in a snazzy white rain jacket, was joined by her four-footed pal Ruby in "pawtographing" the Mighty Dog Nation Bill of Rights.


Leaving a "Pawtograph"

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