Droopy Basset Rescue

22/07/2025

The 26th Slobberfest was despite the hot weather an amazing success!
Thanks to all the wonderful volunteers working hard all-day Friday and Saturday to turn the large dog yard into a festival to remember. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to each and every one of you. Slobberfest would never happen without you! And for all who came out to support Droopy- thank you so much! The funds we raised help us continue to care for the hounds in our program now and those that will need our help in the months to come.
I wanted to post tonight before any more time passed. This is the first year I took quick photos of the grounds during Slobberfest because it always amazes me how different the property looks Slobberfest weekend. Most years I have only a vague memory of the day, and by Saturday night most of the tents are down, and Sunday you can hardly tell Slobberfest had over 400 people wandering the property, playing games, entering the big tent basset games, buying raffle tickets, checking out the vendors, enjoying the yummy food available and spending time with people who love Bassets. It is truly unbelievable that it all comes together and is then done in 3 days.
Those 3 days are the most intense and physically hard work for our volunteers. Friday started at 8am this year and we were still working on booths till after 8pm. Then Saturday began at 7am for our volunteers, and the last of the volunteers left that night at 11pm. OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE AMAZING!!
AND YOU- our awesome supporters are appreciated more than I can put into words!
Thank you!
Judy at Droopy Central
PS: My quick photos missed the Rainbow bridge, the food booth (on the front porch) and I am sure a lot more ! LOL
Droopy's Slobberfest photographer Amy Fisher of Pawsburgh Photography takes the real Slobberfest photos. see them all here: Slobberfest photos Droopy Basset Rescue

13/07/2025

The Punch Cup Grand Prize (the PS4 Pro bundle) was won by Robert Marshall! Congratulations!!

11/07/2025

10/07/2025

We started setting up some of the easy-ups today, thinking there was only a mild rain coming thru. Well, a bit more that came. Thank goodness it was a relitivly short downpour... and only 2 easy-ups turned into origami . Wind took one down and the other heavy rain in the canopy bent the frame. I was able to keep the water from ruining any of the others with my handy broom to dump the water out of the tarps. This isn't my 1st rodeo... lol and doing it during the day is so much better than the years I was out there at 2 am poking the water out of sagging tarps!
All's good and Teri has already made the trip to replace the 2 tarps we lost, she is amazing. Sun is out already and drying up the ground. Fingers crossed for good weather the next 2 days!
And don't worry the foster bassets stayed dry inside getting there beauty sleep to be ready for Saturday. 🤣

09/07/2025

Bassetarian of the year award

09/07/2025

SLOBBERFEST TIME!
Actually set up started early... the big game tents were here last Thursday! At 9am. The guys did a great job, as usual 👏. Skip has been non stop mowing and w**d wacking. Teri has been working on the getting the rainbow bridge ready. Mark Burns is here now getting the big tent ready for the games. I just finished the Bassetarian of the Year award and the 2nd and 3rd place special sculptures with our pirate theme 😁

01/07/2025

Big Thank-Aaaarrrrooo's go out to Delta Sonic Car Wash for their donation to this year's Slobberfest!!

01/07/2025

Big Thank-Aaaarrrrooo's go out to Chewy for their donation to this year's Slobberfest!!