Please join us for the 2023 Bradenton Spring Festival hosted by Humane Society of Manatee County! This exciting event is family and pet friendly and will provide our community with fun activities for all ages. Caddy’s of Bradenton has generously agreed to allow us to use their facility again this year. Thank you, Caddy’s!
From 11am-2pm on Saturday, March 25th, you can enjoy a DJ, food/beverages, wine tastings, a race course for pooches, pet photos, face painting, games, and more! There will be vendors who are excited to meet you and will be handing out free items for you and your family!
We will also be giving out prizes for individuals and teams who collect the most in donations! Want your pet to be featured at next year's event? Our top donor will win their pet the title of HSMC's 2024 "SpokesPet" and be the face of next year's event!
Tickets are on sale now and give participants access to our family friendly activities as well as a "Wag Bag" with tons of goodies. You can also purchase an exclusive Bradenton Spring Festival T-Shirt!
The Bradenton Spring Festival is the Humane Society of Manatee County’s largest fundraiser of the year. All proceeds benefit the animals in our Second Chance Adoption Shelter located at 2515 14th Street W.
Questions? You can reach us at events@humanesocietymanatee.org or 941-747-8808 x315.
Lucky Dogs Will Be Running as a Pay-Per-Run Event.
Happening in Downtown Wyandotte, June 2-4, 2023. This three-day dog event will provide hours of entertainment for families and their dog!
The event will be taking place in the parking lot on the riverfront (just off Oak Street, east of Biddle Ave.) and a grass section of Bishop Park. There will be a variety of pet related vendors, doggy fashions, homemade dog treats, unique dog toys and samples of dog food and treats.
Lucky Dogs Will Be Running as a Pay-Per-Run Event.
Does your dog instinctively want to run and chase bunnies or squirrels or leaves or birds or.....? Then it is probably a good candidate for Lure Coursing, a great way for your dog to run and play safely at a game it loves!
Lure Coursing uses an artificial lure attached to a line, going at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour across an open field following a pattern that is meant to simulate live prey. Lucky Dogs Lure Coursing has taken this sport, and scaled it down in size in order to expose more people to this amazing sport. We have developed our own line of Lure Coursing Equipment which utilizes a closed-loop continuous system. Our variable speed controller can accommodate any and all levels of athleticism and our equipment can scale up or down to almost any sized yard or field, we can even run Indoors! With the ability to change the direction of the lure at the tip of your finger, you always have the ability to go back and get the attention of any dog your working with, or just reverse the course and reverse the fun!
Lucky Dogs believes all dogs deserve a chance to experience this wonderfully fun activity. A well-exercised dog is healthier, better-behaved and just makes life easier for everyone. Lure Coursing is a great way for your dog to get the exercise it needs and have a blast doing it.
Whether Indoors or Outdoors, our custom designed equipment is completely portable and quick to set-up. Lucky Dogs Lure Coursing will come out to your venue, festival or event location, set-up the Lure Coursing Machine, and install temporary fencing if necessary. We suggest an area of a 100' X 100', but a smaller course would be fine for smaller-breed dogs. We bring everything you need to host the most exciting doggie gathering ever, all you have to do is provide the dogs! We are always a hit at outdoor festivals, concerts and other pet based events because we provide a FULLY INTERACTIVE EVENT for the attendee's dogs to participate in! Yes your guest's furry friend becomes the center of the show!
For more information please click below and give us a brief description of your event and we would love to help you host the best outing your group has ever had!
The sport of lure coursing is rapidly increasing in popularity, and once you’ve taken a look at this activity in action you will know why.
Lucky Dogs builds equipment to bring this sport to more people on a more accessible scale. Our equipment is tough, but it is not intended for full 600 Yard AKC pulls. There is equipment out there for that, and it is some awesome engineering, but it is a bit pricey, bulky and heavy for your average enthusiast. Our Equipment is on a scale intended for trainers, rescue groups, boarding facilities, festivals and personal enthusiasts to practice, train and entertain!
Our equipment is designed to meet our demanding needs, and when running in a 250 Yard course, the machine consistently runs at 58+MPH, faster if you have ideal conditions! Many of you have seen us as we run all over the country with our equipment and we require a machine that can run all day long, consistently and smoothly across all performance levels and never overheat no matter what the temperature.
Combine these requirements along with the same rigid standards applied to materials and hardware we selected for each component and Lucky Dogs Lure Coursing created a machine to be proud of.
We give you "Reddy" The Machine.