Milo, a 12-week-old puppy, poses on prime of a espresso squeaky toy. Milo served as one of many co-captains of Everett Wag Time.
While each Saturday at Park-9 Dog Bar sees lots of of four-legged guests, there have been some particular company Feb. 3. In anticipation for the Super Bowl, quite a few puppies took half within the bar’s fur-st annual Puppy Bowl.
The sport, organized in collaboration with Sweet Paws Rescue, a foster-based rescue group, doubled as an adoption occasion the place paw-tential adopters might meet the “athletes” afterward.
Puppies have been break up into two groups, Boston Ruff & Tumble and Everett Wag Time, with the primary workforce sporting orange bandanas and the latter sporting blue bandanas. While the sport began off sturdy with a number of power from each the dogs and the group, it shortly become chaos with a number of penalties, tackles and interceptions. Tired of being on the sector, many puppies started attempting to flee the play space.
After a halftime water break, the puppies have been at it once more, biting, leaping and sprinting as they fought for the varied tennis balls and Dunkin’ squeaky toys. With all of the chaos, there was no clear winner, however it’s protected to say all puppies and spectators had fun.
Following the sport, teams of holiday makers got 10-minute intervals to fulfill the puppies. As the gate to the play space opened, permitting the primary guests in, puppies swarmed to their followers with tails wagging, absorbing the eye. Couples, households and mates gushed over how lovable the puppies have been, petting and holding them whereas Sweet Paws members spoke to guests about every puppy.
While thematic, this wasn’t the primary adoption occasion that Park-9 has hosted. In truth, the institution tries to work with a rescue or non-profit as soon as a month.
Through the Puppy Bowl, two puppies have been adopted, with potential future adoptions from events.
“Not everyone shows up to the bar on a Saturday looking to take home a puppy,” mentioned Kayley Nugent, Park-9’s occasions supervisor. “So we’re never surprised that all dogs don’t go, but a lot will follow up and they’ll go home, you know, in the next couple weeks.”
Beyond adoptions, Park-9’s purpose with occasions like these is to achieve publicity for the rescue organizations they work with.
“This has been better than we could have imagined,” Nugent mentioned. “We had a really great turnout.”
