John Bartlett in front of Bartlett’s Greenwich Village store with his dogs Huff, Tiny Tim and Millie.

November 10, 2009 - Port Washington, NY – There will definitely be some fashionably warm and soft fall and winter menswear at John Bartlett’s New York City menswear store Saturday, November 21. 2009. And outside, there will be another kind of ‘warm and soft” as the designer hosts a North Shore Animal League America pet adoption event to honor his best friend, Tiny Tim, a handsome, three-legged Shepherd-Rottweiler mix.

The pre-Thanksgiving adoption event will benefit the Animal League in Port Washington, LI, where Bartlett adopted Tiny Tim, and will feature a mobile unit filled with adoptable puppies, dogs, cats and kittens, parked outside John Bartlett’s New York City menswear store at 143 Seventh Avenue South at Charles Street, NYC from 12 noon to 5 pm.

Tiny Tim is represented in the shadowed icon that appears as Bartlett’s logo on shirts, scarves, accessories and shopping bags in the Greenwich Village store.

Tiny Tim, the store mascot, was an Animal League rescue, delivered to the Port Washington Shelter in December, 2002, after being hit by a car. Veterinarians were forced to amputate a severely injured leg and after his recovery, the dog was put up for adoption. Four months later, when Bartlett decided to celebrate his 40th birthday by adopting a shelter animal, he was looking for a small animal that could travel easily with him. But one look at Tim changed his plans and, as Bartlett says, “It has been a wonderful life for a wonderful dog,” since that fateful meeting. Since then, John has taken Millie, another Animal League dog into his life. Millie, a Chihuahua-Jack Russell terrier mix, was rescued from a Georgia kill shelter and brought to the Animal League.

For more information about how you can help North Shore Animal League America visit www.AnimalLeague.org.