Ours is a Catholic country and part of the tradition is the blessing particularly of a new home, a new car and, of course, a new baby. But there is this blessing that is getting popular, it is the blessing of pets. Usually held in September or October, pet clubs would organize such blessing activities that would be attended by thousands of pet lovers. There is the usual procession by the pets, with their owners, led by the priest. The culmination is the short program with focus on pets and closing the affair is the actual blessing of pets.
Expectedly, the affair is domination by the participant dogs followed by cats. But there are other animals that we see like caged parakeet and other birds, a hamster, turtle, rabbit. It is one fun day because some distributors of pet food and accessories also are there to distribute freebies and also to sell their products. We have attended many pet blessing affairs. Here is my blog on one of those pet blessing - http://petizone.blogspot.com/2011/10/pet...treet.html
