Proud owners show off their pups at Punchestown!

People and pups of all ages had a fantastic time at KWWSPCA’s most popular event of the year – their annual family dog show.

Kildare & West Wicklow Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been running this popular and fun event for many years now and it’s always well attended. The event on Sunday 8 September at Punchestown Racecourse was no exception!

KWWSPCA are very grateful to the management of Punchestown Racecourse for allowing them to use this fantastic premises. They described the recent show as “a huge success” and thanked all who supported it.

With lots of different competition classes for the dogs, the show started at 2pm. Light refreshments were available, punters stopped by a stall selling pet products and a ‘Teddy Adoption’ stall, their charity shop ‘Noah’s Ark’ set out some stock for sale on the day, and there was a chance to win a luxury hamper in the Dog Show Raffle.

The charity’s volunteers were on the ground to give information on the current KWWSPCA rescue dogs and cats available for adoption, how to become a volunteer, or how to get involved in their fostering programme.

The KWWSPCA was founded in 1940 (initially as the Kildare SPCA) to help prevent and deal with cases of animal cruelty. Run solely by volunteers, the Society is devoted to the rescue, care and re-homing of animals throughout Kildare and West Wicklow. The KWWSPCA has no paid employees and is solely run by volunteers.

The organisation does a lot of work in animal rescue and rehoming in Kildare and West Wicklow, including maintaining a network of foster homes for animals requiring foster care, working with Hundar Utan Hem to rehome Irish dogs to families in Sweden, and advertising lost and found animals on their Facebook page to reunite lost pets with their owners.