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Top Dog 2015

Top Dog 2015 was held on Saturday, Oct 10, at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium. Proceeds benefit Donte's Den.

By Cliff Roles
| 2:40 a.m. October 11, 2015

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Donte's Den founder Marsha Panuce and her team took over the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium on Saturday, Oct. 10 to hold Top Dog 2015, a Westminster-like dog show where owners can enter their four-legged friends in playful categories, enjoy fine dining with their canine companions and chill out in one of the Donte’s Den doggie lounges. Donte's Den is a facility offering long term and permanent care for dogs whose owners are unable to care for them due to illness, injury, abandonment or military deployment.

Aiden Letourneau, Suzanne Atwell, Olivia Letourneau

Co-Chairs Janet Walther with Bling and Ashley Ryan with Sugar

Phil King with Lily

Marsha Panuce and Fred Krasne

Father Faust and Jaymie Klauber

Joey Panek with Lulu

Hayley Wielgus with Jade and Max Winitz with Mattie

Anne Chauvet with Rowan, Devin Chauvet with Oliver Sachs

Steve and Eileen Wallace with emcee Jimmy Dean

Sean Gleason, Marsha Panuce, Nick Dominis and Jake Nelson

Debbie Shuck with Rupert Horatio Nelson

Kimberley Marlow with Tracker

Tyler Vaden with Hendrix and Deva O — Tyler Vaden with Hendrix and Deva O"Donnell with Precia Bear

Ashley Kozell, Lexie Kozell with Maggie and Marko Radisic

Ilene Friedman with Geri

Judy and Stephen Altier with Ralphie

Melissa, Hannah and Madeline Stevens, Crystal and Ella Lahners with Lola, Zoe and Gracie

Kathy Lindaman with Mila

Kim and Ron Soto with J,R,

Richael Parisi and John Bair with Maverick

Marie Partington with Buster and Lynn Barrie with Edie

Nicci Phillips and Michael Nemecek with Leo

Jeremy and Veronica Milly and Marybeth Flynn

Caitlin Miller, Amanda Waag with Belle, Deva O'Donnell and Ashley Ryan with Sugar

Mary Pierce and June Simmons

Jeff Benninghoff with wife and children

Dee Papaioannou with Teddy and Kaia

Rich Schineller and Sarah Elise Fulton

Edmund Santana

Anne Chauvet with Oliver Sachs

Marsha Panuce, Susie Steenbarger, Susie Elsea with — Marsha Panuce, Susie Steenbarger, Susie Elsea with "Top Dog" Piper

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