Eat. Drink. Save Dogs from 6-9pm at Darby’s in the North Loop of Minneapolis. The proceeds from ticket sales help provide much-needed medical attention to the dogs of Homeward Bound Rescue (a no-kill shelter). This tail wagging event will include: 5 courses of gourmet appetizers paired with wine from Flirt and Josh Cellars Fruit and cheese skewers Thai chicken skewers Assorted slider sandwiches (fish and meat) Veggie focaccia pizza Cake Live music by Michael Wright Raffle One entry with ticket purchase, additional tickets available for $5 Gourmet treats for your dog Favor bags with goodies & special offers for you and your pooch. For more information and tickets click here. Pampered Pooch Playground and Bubbly Paws Dog Wash have been sponsoring this event for the past 4 years!
Beer With Your Buddy – Saturday, May 19th
Pampered Pooch Playground is proud to sponsor the summer season of the K9-Connection’s Beer With Your Buddy. This great event mixes 2 of the best things in life…. Dogs and Beer. Stop out to the Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis for a fun night with your pooch! This event is on Saturday, May 19th from 5-7:30pm. You can purchase your tickets and get more information here.
Wine and Wag
It was a slow start for Eloise.. She had a bit of a Wine and Wag hangover!
Last night we were at Wine and Wag which was Downtown in Minneapolis and put on by the K9-Connection. What a great time and event! It was so much fun to see so many of the PPP dogs out and having a great time! So many of our pet industry friends helped to sponsor this fundraiser for Homeward Bound rescue, and we were located right next to Bone Adventure. About 1/2 way through the night we started having some fun taking pictures of Eloise who belongs to one of the Bone Adventure employees.
Make sure to keep watching our events page to stay updated on all the coolest dog events in the Twin Cities.
Have a great day!
Keith
Doga
Our friends at Patch just published a story on Doga, which is put on by the K9-Connection and takes place in oour training room. Visit their website to read the full story!
Roxy Loves the Dunn!
Roxy wants to be the doggy spokesmodel for Dunn Brothers!
Last Thursday night we had a great time attending the Minnesota Wild game in one of the luxury Boxes. As always it is always dangerous to get a bunch of dog people together, and we came up with some great ideas! I love hanging out with our friends that also own cool local dog businesses!
Today we did our typical stop at Dunn Brothers (50th and Xerxes in Minneapolis) with Roxy, and then we walk around Lake Harriet. We always stop so Roxy can drink water, and today we used my empty cup from Dunn Brothers. I think we got a few strange looks thinking we were giving Roxy coffee. Ha! I did tell the Barista that they need to come up with some dog coffee.
Sorry to cut this short, we are off to the final Beer with you Buddy of the season at the Nomad Pub in Minneapolis!
Have a good night!
Keith
Getting ready for a BIG weekend
Jackson the black lab has been spending the night in out Pooch Hotel!
Today I spent most of the afternoon getting ready for a big event weekend!! This weekend Pampered Pooch Playground is the “Top Dog” sponsor of the Linden Hills Woofstock. This is one of my favorite dog events of the year an this is the reason we are sponsoring it 2 years in a row! Woofstock is actually one of the reasons that we moved to Linden Hills! Stop out at the Pampered Pooch Playground booth and have your picture taken in our “old school” photo booth. We are also sponsoring the warm water dog wash with all the money raised going to the Pet Project. While you are there make sure you stop over and check out all of our friends businesses. Bubbly Paws Self Service Dog Wash, Modern Life Photography, Sidewalk Dog, Sarah Beth Photography, K9- Connection. All of these are great LOCAL business that we love to work with. Make sure to stop over and say hi, and pick up some of the goodies we have 
Trycia spent the morning taking new pictures of the daycare dogs! For the new pictures, make sure to check out our September photo gallery!
Have a good night!
Keith
Wine and Wag
A big thanks to all of our dogs that came to Wine and Wag in the North Loop (Minneapolis) last night. What a great turnout! We shared a table with Sarah Beth Photography and she will have all of the pictures online very soon! The dogs and owners had a great time! The biggest hit of the night was the doggie ice cream that was handed out from Bone Adventure.
There are many more doggy friendly events in the works this summer, keep watching our events page for more details.
Keith
Mark your Calendar
Looking for a really cool event involving dog lovers from around the Twin Cities?? Friday, May 14th, we have teamed up to sponsor the Mon Ami Event at the Galleria in Edina featuring the artwork of Jessie Marinello of Stray Dog Arts (she did the big picture of Roxy in the lobby). We would love to see you there! For more information, visit the Mon Ami Website. Also sponsoring the event are Sarah Beth Photography, K9-Connection, Sidewalk Dog, Fetch Delivers and Bone Adventure.
Snow and Doga
Today was another big day for our dog daycare and hotel guests. The day started out with our hotel dogs helping me shovel our outside play area. We shovel an area for some of our smaller dogs or dogs that don’t like the snow. It was great to see the happiness in the dogs when they ran outside and saw all of the snow. Then later in the morning, Trycia and I bundled up and brought the daycare dogs outside for a long play session. They had so much fun tearing it up in the snow. We put a few videos on our facebook fan page.
Did you catch us on the FOX 9 Morning News today? M.A. Rosco stopped out to show off what it was like to do doga. If you missed the clip, you can watch it by clicking here.
