Make sure to stay after the Dash for our Bark at the Park Festival, where you can enter your canine pal in the Pup Show, high-flying Disc Contest, or our ever-popular Pug Races! Visit with pet-friendly businesses, learn about Sacramento-area animal rescue organizations, or just have lunch while watching all the action.
Register today! Whether you choose to bring a canine companion or invite a two-legged friend, mark your calendar and join us for the Doggy Dash and Bark at the Park Festival and help make a difference in the lives of homeless animals sheltered at the Sacramento SPCA. Register as a solo participant, start a team or join an existing team.
Event Details
- 5K or 2K walk!– Fifth Annual Pug Races!
– Pup Show! Ugliest Dog, best wag, best smile, best kisser, best tricks, most magnificent pup and more!!
– Pet-friendly businesses in Vendor's Row
– Demonstrations by Sacramento Police K9 Unit, Sacramento Flyball, Touch and Go and First Fun Agility and the Disc Dogs of the Golden Gate "Disc Toss and Fetch" Contest
Schedule of events
Registration Opens | 7:30am |
Agility Dogs Demonstration | 8:00am |
Flyball | 8:45am |
5k & 2k Walk | 9:00am |
First Fun Agility Dogs Demonstration | 10:00am |
PUP SHOW - Most enthusiastic wag | 10:20am |
First Fun Agility Contest | 10:30an |
PUP SHOW - Best smile | 10:30am |
Sacramento PD K9 Unit Demostration | 10:30am |
PUP SHOW - Best kisser | 10:40am |
PUP SHOW - Best tricks | 10:50am |
PUP SHOW - Look a like contest | 11:00am |
Disc Dogs of the Golden Gate Demonstration | 11:00am |
PUP SHOW - Ugliest Dog contest | 11:10am |
PUP SHOW - Costume Contest | 11:20am |
PUP SHOW - Best in Show Award (winners of all Pup Show contests compete against each other) | 11:30am |
Disc, Toss & Fetch Contest | 11:30am |
THE RUNNING OF THE PUGS | 11:30am |
PUG RACES Heat 1 | 11:40am |
PUG RACES Heat 2 | 11:50am |
PUG RACES Heat 3 | 12:00pm |
PUG RACES Heat 4 | 12:10pm |
PUG RACE OFF | 12:20pm |