It’s the return of the most Pooch-tastic day of the year!
Clear your canines calendar and get ready to party! Join in for a day of fun and games, especially for our four-legged friends, their owners, and all animal lovers to socialise, picnic, and party!
This year, we’re meeting in Reynolds Park on the Garrick Street side and having a “Best Dressed Dog – Beach Parade”.
Best Dressed Dog Beach Parade
• Meet at Reynolds Park – Garrick Streetside, then a fun walk along Garrick Street to the beach entrance at the end, where we parade along the beach and then end up at the event space at the Port Douglas Surf Life Saving Club. It’s a Carnivale procession, like Mardi Gras, but for dogs, so dress up and go wild as we want this parade to really pop and turn heads!
Once at the Surf Club, the party continues when all the fun of the Pooch Party gets underway.
This event always gets tails, and tongues wagging has just become more and more fun each year, and all for a terrific cause. Dogless Humans are also welcome too, so come and watch the show. We can’t wait to see you there.
9:30am – Registrations Open
9:45am – Parade begins along Garrick Street to Sand Street then onto Four Mile Beach to The Port Douglas Surf Club
10:00am – Competitions begin with Best Dressed Dog parade in the judging arena
10:00am – 12:00noon Competitions continue in the judging arena – Best trick, Naughtiest Dog – Tails of Destruction, Dog with the waggiest tail, Owner/Dog lookalike,
12:00 noon – Douglas Top Dog announced and Raffle Drawn
12:30pm – Event ends
$5 donation per competition entry
BBQ thanks to Malones Butchers
Face painting and more thanks to Port Douglas Vets
This event is proudly sponsored by Ray White Port Douglas in support of Paws and Claws Animal Shelter. Every dollar raised at this free family event is donated to the newly opened, purpose built, animal refuge and boarding facilities in the Douglas Shire.
