The City of West Hollywood is co-sponsoring Lisa Vanderpump’s Vanderpump Dog Foundation’s 7th annual World Dog Day occasion in West Hollywood, bringing collectively a whole lot of individuals and their furry pals to have a good time dogs for a day of enjoyable and leisure.
The World Dog Day 2023 occasion will take place on Saturday, December 2, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at West Hollywood Park, positioned at 647 N. San Vicente Boulevard. Admission is free and open to the general public; canine companions should attend on a leash.
World Dog Day is a day that focuses on a celebration of dogs. The day goals to attract consideration to the superb, empathetic creatures that dogs are, whereas elevating consciousness about international canine abuse, particularly the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. The Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, begins on June 21 every year. More than 10,000 dogs are reported to be captured, transported in cages, and killed for human consumption yearly for this annual occasion. In addition, greater than 10 million dogs are killed yearly in China for the canine meat commerce. This competition epitomizes the cruelty of the canine commerce trade. Many of the dogs are stolen from their house owners. Many die throughout transport to the slaughterhouse after days or even weeks with out meals or water, and others endure sickness and harm throughout transport, equivalent to damaged bones. In 2016, the City of West Hollywood handed a decision condemning the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin.
The Vanderpump Dog Foundation was fashioned to assist in ending this worldwide atrocity, and to additionally higher the lives of dogs domestically. The Foundation is constructed on a platform of schooling, laws, and activism. Through the organization’s legislative campaigns, home and worldwide consciousness, and rescue and rehabilitation efforts, it hopes to finish the barbaric torture as soon as and for all.
This 12 months’s World Dog Day occasion shall be holiday-themed with distributors and enjoyable vacation actions, equivalent to assembly Santa Paws, for all canine members of the neighborhood and their guardians to get pleasure from. West Hollywood Park and the canine parks will proceed to be open to the general public throughout this 12 months’s occasion. The occasion organizers will present waste baggage and waste stations as wanted to accommodate demand.
The City of West Hollywood invitations canine members of the neighborhood and their people to smell out a spot and romp round on the City’s two canine parks at West Hollywood Park. A small canine park and huge canine park are positioned on either side of the park’s basketball courts and every space options expanses of open house with shade bushes, small mounds and turf terraces, and water stations. In addition, the City operates the William S. Hart Park and Off-Leash Dog Park positioned at 8341 De Longpre Avenue.
