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Last Minute Gift Guide

December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Eastern Market, H Street

With just days to go, let’s cut right to the chase. Here are some suggestions for those left on your list. All to be found within the comfy confines of Capitol Hill! Hill’s Kitchen has a wide variety of gifts for the homemaker. Kudos if you can actually go there and not end up buying [...]

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Indie Hill Pet Collective Winter Pet Supply Drive Tomorrow

December 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill

Saturday December 10th the new Indie Hill Pet Collective will hold its first-ever winter pet supply collection. They will set up in front of Port City Java between 9am and 1pm. This a great place to take your old towels and blankets. The CollectIVE is collectiING on behalf of local animal shelters and organizations including  Washington [...]

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Pet Photo Contest Results!

November 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Capitol Hill, DC, H Street

The tribe has spoken…well, tribes really.  We’ve tallied the votes you the readers have cast, and our staff has agonized over our selections.  Without further ado, here are the results of the 2011 THIH Halloween Pet Photo Contest. Least-Like-the-Species Award goes to Skunk Dog, submitted by Sarah Allegrini.  For her odorless portrayal of a skunk, Molly [...]

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Don’t Forget to Vote – Halloween Pet Photo Contest

November 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Capitol Hill, DC, H Street

Loyal Readers! Don’t forget to cast your vote for your favorite canine, feline, or reptile companion-in-costume in our Halloween Pet Photo Contest.  You can find a link to the Flickr.com photo page with all the entries as well as the official ballot in last week’s voting post. Voting will be available through 11:59 p.m. on [...]

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Vote Now! Halloween Pet Photo Contest

November 4th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Barracks Row, Capitol Hill, DC, H Street

Candy coma wearing off? Good.  It’s time for one more tribute to Halloween 2011. Readers, we need you to cast your vote for your favorite costume-wearing canine or feline (or reptile, in one case).  We asked you to share photos of your pets dressed up for Halloween, and we were amused and sometimes bewildered by [...]

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Final Reminder! THIH Halloween Photo Contest Entries Due!

October 31st, 2011 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Capitol Hill, DC, H Street

Happy Halloween! As you ready your little ones for trick-or-treating or perfect your own costume for tonight’s party, don’t forget to dress up Whiskers and Rover and snap a few photos.  Your images could win you some wonderful prizes in The Hill Is Home’s Halloween Pet Photo Contest. All entries are due by 11:59 p.m. [...]

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Reminder! THIH Pet Halloween Contest

October 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, DC

You’ve still got time to run to a fabric store and get your hot glue gun warmed up.  Our first ever THIH Halloween Pet Costume Contest is in full-swing and you have until November 2 to snap a photo of your dog or cat (or bird or hermit crab) in costume to submit for some [...]

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Photo Contest: Disguise Your Pet This Halloween

October 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, DC

If there’s one thing the staff of The Hill Is Home enjoys more than dressing up for Halloween, it’s dressing up pets for Halloween.  Sure, we all can dress up our kids or hand out candy to the neighborhood ghosts and goblins, but we are suckers for Count Bark-ula and Supercat on the prowl on [...]

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Barracks Row Welcomes New Pet Shop

August 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Barracks Row, H Street

Metro Mutts, which opened at 508 H St, NE in 2009, announced today that it is opening its second location on Barracks Row.  Metro Mutts is buying Pawticulars and, after a few renovations, anticipates opening in the space at 407 8th St, SE on October 1st. Owners Lee and Kelly Hartshorn and Anna Lappas-Collins are [...]

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Get Your Pups Ready for Summer

June 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill

Last month, Ramona and I welcomed a new pup – Elroy – into our home. We rescued him from the Washington Humane Society where he was taken when someone found him wandering the streets, filthy and matted and without a home.  We brought him to our house, gave him a bath and haircut and set [...]

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