One Furry Fiesta Event Review

One Furry Fiesta

17^th June Saturday was yet another eventful day for ThePetsDialogue, we visited two events, and one of which was “One Furry Fiesta”, held at a large open field space in the midst of some private houses. More accurately, between Lorong Ong Lye and Serangoon Avenue 1. This was an event hosted by the People’s Association of Bartley NC and Braddell Estate NC. Interestingly, it was also a ceremony to celebrate the upgrading completion of the estate.

Massive!

What Was Expected

Despite the countless of Pet events we’ve been to, which were mostly a combination of highlights catered for all types of Pets (Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, Birds, you name it) The event highlights as stated on the flyer which we listed were “Dog Workshops, Dog Competitions and Dog Booths”. Alright, so this was shaping up to be a pretty Dog-centric event in our heads. Gotta admit we thought the turnout was gonna be rather disappointing. What if people did not own Dogs?

What We Saw

Boy were we surprised! Not only did the event turn out to be a pretty large sized one, the highlights catered for Dogs only did little to reduce the turnout for this event. It was One Furry Fiesta alright. The tent-space was as large as Nee SoonGRC’s Pets Fiesta, and Kallang Trivista’s Pets Carnival. Because it was catered to Dogs only, they had substantial space to include a Main stage, and a massive Dog show ring (fully furnished with obstacle courses).

Entrance

Stalls For Humans

Since it was an open space, you can pretty much enter the event from any angle, but there was an allocated path that led right up to it. Firstly, you’d be greeted by the Organiser's Registration booth, which comes with a goodie bag filled with Dog treats, coupons, and a Picnic mat (of usage we’ll explain later on).

Churros!

Moving forward, we saw two whole rows of Food stalls, lined with Hipster food by Churros Factory, traditional food like Roti Canai, Kueh Salat, and even Ice Cream. It was as though we just just walked into a miniature Geylang Ramadan Bazaar. Did we mention that these little bites were mostly free for all that popped by the event? Of course, this could be one of the reasons why part of the crowd got drawn to it (yes even those that came without Pets. Haha)

Pet Stops

The other stalls were merchants for our Furry pals, of which we met a few new faces behind adorable non-skid socks for Pooches, handmade pretty multi-coloured leashes and also handcrafted porcelain plagues customised with your favourite photo of your Pets (these are made to last a lifetime!) For this event, the participating Veterinary Clinic was Advanced Pet Care, a pretty new establishment in the East of Singapore, there to conduct free Health checks for your darling Pooches.

Do you see Rainbows?

Porcelain Memorabilia Makers

Ooh, prints this time!

Again, it wouldn’t be a Pet event without participating Shelters, this time around Exclusively Mongrels, OSCAS and Purely Adoption were lined up side by side, gracing the event with their rescued Mongrel and pup show stars, always on the look-out for good homes!

Main Stage

Main Stage, Half the crowd moved on to the competition!

Usual educational talks were given up on the Main Stage, this time with the appearance of Dog training specialist, Sunny Chong and his team, and they were also the folks behind the Dog Competition! Apart from that, the attention drew from the stage to the main event that everyone was looking forward to that day, the competition which included “Pets Idol”, “Dog Got Talent” and others such as temptation and agility runs.

The Dog Competition commences!

Community

It has always been a pleasure for us to meet and speak to people at the event, especially fellow Pet lovers and owners like ourselves. Through conversational topics we discover what is lacking in the industry and also what they enjoy most about visiting an event with their Furkids. Needless to say, there is a common reason we all share : to be able to spend some time with their Furry companions and mingle with others with similar passion for their Pets. Here are a few folks we thoroughly appreciated having a convo with!

Mikaela and Milo, perhaps the calmest Toy Poodle we've encountered!

Hi handsome Frenchie!

This Goldie and Chow are the best of friends!

P.S. If you do not see your photograph here, don’t worry there will be much more opportunities to come, we’d certainly love to meet each and every one of you!

One Furry Fiesta Review

The weather was unforgiving (as always), we’re pretty sure you’re aware of how hot it can get these days. There wasn’t anybody who wasn’t sweating that day, however we could tell that everybody and everypawdie had their fair share of fun, even while taking shade from the heat. And on to the purpose of the Picnic Mat! Organisers have kindly provided an airing of the movie Kungfu Panda soon after event highlights were over, for families to unwind on their Picnic Mats when the Sun has set.

Boing!

This was a first at a Pet event for sure, and we began to understand why the time frame for the event was set between 4pm to 7.30pm. Just in time for movies after dinner. By the way, there was also a bouncy castle! It was a huge hit for the kids (it was riddled with Children) And yes, it was a pretty worthy trip to end the day. See you guys soon at another Pet event!