These Are The 7 Things You Missed In 2021 Lagos Dog Carnival

In Nigeria today, it's easy to believe that we're lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to animal care. There have, of course, been massive changes to our pet culture over the past few years, thanks to the conveners of events such as the Lagos Dog Carnival.

These Are The 8 Things You Missed In The 2021 Lagos Dog Carnival

This December marks three whole years since Lagos Dog Carnival first landed on the streets of Nigeria's commercial capital, and what a whirlwind it's been. What started out as just a street canine show has turned out to be one of the biggest dog carnival; gaining lots of attention and giving out awards to man's best friends.

If you're genuinely interested in knowing everything that happened during the 2021 Lagos Dog Carnival, here's my pick of the best, the smartest and the ones you should have spotted.

The Lagos Dog Carnival took place in Lekki neighbourhood of Lagos.
At the event, different types of dogs adorned colourful school uniforms, as well as sunglasses and schoolbags strapped to their backs. They competed for various awards in the “Back to School”-themed canine extravaganza.
Some of the awards included, “head boy” for the cleanest school uniform, “punctuality prefect” and “most noisemaker.”
Canada, a white-haired golden retriever, was crowned head boy for a pristine lime green uniform with stripes and a school bag. Ivory, a bulldog, walked away with the punctuality prefect for arriving first at the carnival.
For barking throughout the event, Oscar another golden retriever, took the noisemaker award. Ruby, a German shepherd, won “labour prefect” for his imposing size.
There was a cameo appearance by a cat, which received an attendance award.
The carnival was conevened by Jackie Idimogu.

According to her, the idea was to bring together dog owners to celebrate their dogs and learn from each other how to take better care of them.

“Ever since we started the Lagos Dog Carnival pet owners now take better care of their dogs, our motto is no naked dog is allowed, so owners now dress and groom their dogs better and we have also helped raise awareness on keeping dogs as pets,” she told Reuters.

According to Idimogu, there are plans to take the event to other cities across Nigeria in future to increase awareness about how to look after dogs as pets.

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