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Petawawa, ON (July 28, 2025) – Seize your paddle (and your pup!) for the fifth Annual Ottawa Valley Doggy Paddle Fundraiser on Sunday, Aug. 10 at Petawawa Level Seashore. Introduced by Finish of the Leash, and in partnership with the Water and Filth Competition, this splash-tastic occasion helps the Ontario SPCA Renfrew County Animal Centre.
Whether or not you canoe along with your canine, kayak for a kitten, or SUP along with your pup, the Doggy Paddle is a enjoyable approach to make waves for a very good trigger. All proceeds keep native, serving to the Renfrew County Animal Centre proceed to offer care, shelter, and help to animals throughout the area.
No furry sidekick? No downside! Convey your two-legged mates and luxuriate in a morning on the water, adopted by lunch and leisure. Don’t have your individual canoe, kayak or paddleboard? The Renfrew County Animal Centre might help you supply one so you possibly can nonetheless get in on the motion.
Examine in begins at 9 a.m., with the Doggy Paddle hitting the water at 10 a.m. for an roughly one-hour paddle. Lunch and extra enjoyable will comply with with stay music, face portray, a hydration station, cool treats to your furry pal, a raffle and a 50/50 draw. There will even be an artwork station the place your canine can create their very own Pawcasso masterpiece. The associated fee for the occasion is $60/grownup and $40/youth beneath 18 years of age. Registration features a branded shirt, meal, and occasion swag.
For these trying to flip up the pleasant competitors, the Group Relay Race is again! Spherical up your crew and paddle for the rostrum on this high-spirited problem that may check your paddling abilities, rubber duck wrangling, and treasure looking talents.
“The place else are you able to paddle along with your pup, race for rubber geese, and assist animals in want – all earlier than lunch?” says Heather Jobe, Group Outreach Coordinator, Ontario SPCA Renfrew County Animal Centre. “The Doggy Paddle is the ulti-mutt feel-good fundraiser for animal lovers.”
Areas are restricted – register early to safe your spot and help native animals in want! As a registered charity that’s 100 per cent donor funded, the Renfrew County Animal Centre relies on neighborhood help to vary the lives of animals. Go to ontariospca.ca/renfrew to register or be taught extra.
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Media Contact:
Heather Jobe
Group Outreach Coordinator
Ontario SPCA Renfrew County Animal Centre
(613) 602-0760
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity that has been altering the lives of animals for 150 years. The Society offers care, consolation and compassion to animals in want in communities throughout Ontario. It values all animals and advocates to deal with them with respect and kindness. The Society strives to maintain pets and households collectively and does so by quite a lot of neighborhood help providers, corresponding to sheltering and adoptions, together with emergency sheltering, feral cat administration applications, animal transfers, meals distribution, humane training, animal advocacy, and spay/neuter providers.
The Ontario SPCA doesn’t obtain annual authorities funding and depends on donations to offer applications and providers to assist animals in want. To be taught extra, or to donate, go to ontariospca.ca. Charitable Enterprise # 88969-1044-RR0002.
The Ontario SPCA Renfrew County Animal Centre is located on the conventional, unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin folks. We additionally acknowledge the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis & Inuit peoples.
