Pupchella 2025

Bring your pup to Chasin’ Tails for games, activities and a festival atmosphere. Enjoy live music, a pup cup from our Pawristas, play some games together and maybe make some new friends. Your entry ticket gets you a welcome package at our Bark Bar and access to all of the entertainment and games. There will also be a silent auction with awesome prizes from local businesses, breweries and other things that dogs and people love and a 50/50.

All money raised for Pupchella 2025 will go to the Evelyn Shanahan Endowment Fund for Creative Play, part of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.

This fund honours a special little girl whose favourite things were music, dancing, dogs and parties. So we created....Pupchella!

What is included if you come to Pupchella?

• welcome package from our Bark Bar
• live music
• a custom pupichino
• Pet Pageant with prizes
• games and activities for dogs and people (kids too!)

What is the Evelyn Shanahan Endowment Fund for Creative Play?

Evelyn Shanahan was a sweet and hilarious little girl who spent a lot of her 9 years at Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH). Through frequent and sometimes long hospitalizations, she still lived her life with enthusiasm. No day was complete without a dance party to her favourite songs. Her favourite part of every day at the hospital was singing and dancing with the music therapists.

When she passed away in the Fall of 2022, her parents created the Evelyn Shanahan Endowment Fund for Creative Play with generous donations from her friends and family. The fund provides ongoing yearly funding to support the music therapy program at ACH. The music therapy program at ACH is entirely donor funded and interacts with children thousands of times each year, bringing joy, encouraging social development and supporting kids to be themselves even in the most difficult circumstances.

Evelyn's dogs (Bee & Baxter) hope to see you there! 🐾

If you can't attend Pupchella, you can still donate directly to the fund and support music therapy at ACH: https://my.childrenshospital.ab.ca/fundraiser/4252044

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