The date has been chosen and the theme decided, so get ready for the 9th annual Pugapalooza 2018: Surfing Pugs, Sandy Paws event in May of 2018.

Stay tuned to our website as we update it with details of the events, including items that will be available for raffle, vendors that have offered to be there, and more. 

We received the help of a generous artist in the design of our logo.  We want to thank Joni Solis of horse-logos.com (Yes she draws more than just horses.) She has been helping us with our logo for the last several years to include the drawing of the hero and villain pugs that were printed on t-shirts.  This year's and previous year's T-shirts are available at http://shop.pugsugottasave.org/Events/Pugapalooza.  Pre-order your's today!  (We have Lady's T-shirts as well).  This year's shirts are of a color logo on blue fabric, our (Joni's) previous designs were on grey fabric.

We will have a raffle with many items available.  Stay tuned, as we update the website and our other online resources with the "packages".  Basically the raffle works like this:  purchase tickets from one of our ticket selling volunteers.  Place some contact information on the ticket.  Find the item(s) you would like to win, and place your tickets (as many as you can fit) in the ticket container(s) of your choice.  While we hope that you will stay the entire day, your presence is not required to win. 

We would like to receive items for use in our raffle, if you have something to donate, please contact us.  In previous years Max & Erma's at Pembroke provided a generous donation of a gift card. Please consider stopping in.

The Ballentine Civic league has added water to the park and as always, we ask that owners responsibly care for their pets and give them a break, water, and some shade. 

We expanded the area for the event because we have grown so much over the years. We look forwards to more advertising on tv, on the radio, and in the newspapers of the area.  If you know someone in the media, please let us know at events@pugsugottasave.org.

We will again reach out to a local vendor to see if we may coordinate an after festivity dining experience that will provide the rescue an opportunity to raise more funds. 

VENDORS!!!! Would you like to sell something at Pugapalooza? Our application is available in downloadable paper form as well as from our sales site.  Vendor attendance is free; however, we ask for a small refundable deposit.  If the vendor does not attend nor cancel by the deadline, then the deposit will help get a pug microchipped.