The Doggy Summer Fete
£ Raised for Charity!
Featuring a Remembrance Parade in tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
At last, having been postponed owing to a summer heatwave, the Doggy Summer Garden Fete took place at the Royal Cornwall Showground near Wadebridge. This time, the Cornish climate did not disappoint with mild and mostly dry conditions prevailing.
The event followed our traditional format, providing a varied and exciting range of activities for doggos and their owners to try, promoting and raising funds for local charities, and providing oodles of dog-centric goodies for visitors to purchase and – pooch-perfect services to learn more about.
This time, however, the mood was both joyful and sombre in equal measure following the death on Thursday 8th September 2022 of our beloved Queen Elizabeth II. In fact, the The Big Bark team considered cancelling the event for a second time; in the end, we decided to pay tribute to Her Majesty, a life-long dog-lover, with a Doggy Remembrance Black Ribbon Parade.
All the dogs were given a ribbon to wear, or instead, invited to wear something appropriate of their own, and off we went to the accompaniment of Friends Will Be Friends, Rule Britannia and Milanollo by the Grenadier Guards. Check out our little video..
Supported Charities
We were delighted to welcome and support local charity Refuge 4 Pets
Event Gallery
“The Queen at Government House (51748174029)” by Archives New Zealand from New Zealand is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
What People Said
We love hearing feedback! Here’s what some of our visitors and participating businesses had to say…
We had an amazing day with you today and our dogs are now snoring, didn’t have enough time to do everything we wanted to there was so much to do so now planning the August one at the Royal Cornwall Showground 😂 Everyone was so friendly. Special thanks to Bodmin Dog Training for their fab advice and Help for Heroes (possibly because I won a bottle of port in their raffle) and the Pimms bar, and the ice cream floats, the Poochie Packs puppychinos, Lucy D Photography and well everything and everyone! ❤
Siobhan
I had a great time with all the dogs who came & had a go at scent work with me & Jo Love Your Paws
I also loved the seminar… not going to lie, I was terrified to start with, but once I got going I lost track of time!! 🙈 Hopefully the attendees enjoyed it & learnt a new snippet or 2 😊
Thanks for organising a such a great day. Brilliantly run, loads of space, really friendly- I’ll definitely be back next year if you’ll have me!! 😊
Vicki from Love Your Paws
A truly amazing event, thank you soo much… Please do it again soon xxxx so happy friendly informative and fun… Thank you xxx
Bob
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