A Carnival For Pets: Kallang Trivista's Pet Event

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

A Carnival For Pets: Kallang Trivista's Pet Event

It seems to us that more GRCs in Singapore are warming up to the idea of organising a Pet event in their neighbourhoods for their Residents and even people from all over our sunny island, and we couldn’t be happier to attend. Just think about the convenience and fun for the Residents as they get to enjoy a fun filled weekend with their families, neighbours, friends (of all sorts☺) and fellow animal lovers!

Main Stage

Though some of the Pet events we’ve been to that were held in a cosy neighbourhood were small and tasteful, like Sunset Way Family Day, It’s a Paw Party and Parrotopia, Pet Carnival at Kallang Trivista was an event almost as large as Nee Soon Pets Fiesta. It’s time for a review of the experience!

The Event

Pet Carnival at Kallang Trivista was organised by Kolam Ayer Grassroots Organisations, and their first ever Pet event! We couldn’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia the minute we arrived. It was an event of fairly great proportion, and we felt like we were back at Nee Soon again. Only this time, the huge tent was white ☺.

Yes Corgi, Sir!

Happy Residents

Pet Carnival was located right behind the Kallang MRT Station (convenient!) The weather that day was pretty unforgiving, it was gloomy for a second, and scorching the next! But that did little to deter event goers, Furkids and Fids.

Adoption Drives

It just absolutely isn’t right to have a large scale Pet event with no participating shelters, so the minute you enter the event, the line-up of Adoption Drive and Shelters are on the right. There will be no way you’d miss them out, with groups of amazing volunteers constantly walking the Puppers, looking their best for future Pawrents. This included Joyous Bark, Purely Adoptions, OSCAS and Uncle Khoe’s K9 shelter.

Guest of Honour having a chat at various booths

We had a good run into Bern from Purely Adoptions (whom was invited to speak on stage about his tips and tricks for Dog training), and Irene from Uncle Khoe’s K9 shelter! Two lovely people out and about, doing the good work of fund raising and finding homes for rescued Mongrels.

Main Stage

You attention would next be drawn to the Main Stage, with ongoing Pet contests back to back, like Dog Obedience, Temptation Dash for Dogs, and Beauty Cat (everypawdie looked great!) Including educational talks on Pet Care by the participating Pet shelters and stage performances by the various Pet groups. You could tell the activities were pretty entertaining, considering the stage front was always packed with a crowd!

Squawking and Clacking

Participating Bird enthusiasts at this event were the folks from Birdie and Family, including some friends, whom brought along their array of Fids to join in the hustle and bustle of the Pet event!

Looks like Corn's a big hit!

Birdies got a whole lotta love

Children and adults all had an opportunity to view, feed and even have a Birdie on their hand, under guidance and supervision of the Fids’ parents of course. When the Sun was up, Parrots had a GREAT time sun basking and flaunting their vibrant colours.

Love my "hair" too - Goliath Palm Cockatoo

an African Grey Parrot! Look at those beautiful "Scales"

Event Meowdels

Lovely meowdels from Love Kuching Project was there to raise funds in collaboration with Goood Pet Collars, amazingly modelled by their Cats, whom were also up for adoption. Now that’s what we call teamwork!

Hop, Hop, Lop!

Don’t leave the Rabbits out, because Angie’s Pets was there to cover your Bunny needs. At this event, she was providing grooming services for every Bun that hopped by wanting a cleanup. Her sidekick Bun Smiggle was there, to accompany her when she taught proper handling to the masses.

Sharing a friendly convo

Guest of Honour Assoc Prof Dr Yaacob Ibrahim (Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs) also got his fair share of giving Smiggle some love, what a day for that Bun!

Products and Accessories

The myriad of more than 30 shops sure kept event goers on a shopping spree, livening the event were goods and treats from KohePets, Nekojam, Husse, homemade goodness from Wholesome Paws, The Barkery, Ginger and Bear, and more!

The great sea of heads

This event was a perfect lineup of the old and new picks for consumers. And they weren’t all catered for your Pets, lil’ ones got to enjoy the perks of good ol’ cotton candy and fun balloon art. (Don’t have a pet? It’s alright you get to have a balloon animal!)

Was It Worth The Trip?

Most indefinitely! We had the pleasure of meeting friends (both on twos and fours) and we could tell the atmosphere of the event was truly cheery, once again, the joy of heading to a Pet event is always made even extra bubbly when you are constantly sharing some love with these furry and feathered friends. In spite of the weather being rather crazy, volunteers and staff of Geylang West CC made sure every event goer was given plenty of free water, and ventilation from massive standing Fans.

Curious Kitty

Lovely Michalle and her daughter, with their beloved Pom!

Because identical twins don't necessary fancy similar Birds ;)

Though it is always nice to see a gathering and participation of various animals, again there wasn’t any booth that had Birds accessories, here’s hoping for next time! Let’s not forget to mention how kind and friendly all these Pet owners are, we hope everyone had a great blast like we did. This was a myriad of Pawrents, Bird Lovers, Kitties, Pooches, and Buns, and oh did we mention there was a Tortoise? ☺ Continue on for more photos, and see you folks at another Pet event!