Sugar Snout Project

[The Sugar Snout Project is a collaboration among Bubbly, Fidos Pawpose, Le Petite Pet Photography and Ginger & Bear.]

(Photography credit: Le Petite Pet Photography)

As our pets age, our relationship with them changes. Slower walks replace long adventures. New routines formed around medications, vet visits and extra care. What does not change is their love for us.

If youth is all brightness and motion, age brings depth — quieter beauty shaped by gentleness, patience, and presence. Tenderness in a senior dog who no longer needs to impress with boundless energy. Instead offers more enduring: calm companionship, instinctive trust, and an affection that feels deeply sincere.

To love a senior dog is to discover that loveliness not diminished but refined by age. Senior Dogs deserve to be celebrated for the quiet, extraordinary love they give. Join us as we celebrate senior dogs with a series of activities!

1) iPhone photography with your dog or cat at the Apple Store

Tell-tale sign of a pet-parent! Your phone has more photos of your pet than yourself. Taking lots of photos of your dogs and cats is now easier than ever with iPhone! With ever-improving technology and features, photos taken with the iPhone can be stunning and evocative. Never too late to take lots and lots of photos of your senior pets! Bring your pet and come learn techniques and features on the iPhone and expert tips in capturing your senior pet's best side!

When: 27 May, 1030 to 1130am
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2) Grooming talk with Desmond from Bubbly

Grooming keeps our pets healthy and comfortable, and maintains their overall well-being. Grooming requirements may change as your pet ages. Creating a low stress environment during grooming at home is ever so important, to accustom your pet to grooming habits, allowing it to have a positive experience. Join us to learn grooming techniques and approach to create a positive and low stress grooming environment for your pet. You may bring your pet for this hands-on workshop!

When: 20 June, 2 to 330pm
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3) Wellness talk on Hip Dysplasia with Ralph from Fidos Pawpose

Ever so often, hip problems become apparent with age. It could be an issue that went unnoticed at young age or developed over time. One of such hip problem is Hip Dysplaysia which could be fixed with medical procedure, but mostly managed with lifestyle changes or intervened with non-invasive methods. Join us to understand the symptoms, causes, diagnostics, interventions and lifestyle modifications of Canine Hip Dysplaysia. 

When: 4 July, 2 to 3pm
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4) Adopt a senior dog!

Choosing to adopt a senior dog does more than open a home — they say it saves 3 lives, 1) adopted dog's 2) a new rescued dog to take the vacated shelter spot 3) rescuer's life.

Rescuing not only means adopting, it can take many forms. Fostering. Volunteering. Advocating.

Here, we feature some of the senior beauties from OSCAS and SOSD.

Open your home? Keen to foster. Sponsor them. Or know someone who needs a furry companion. Share this link to them too!

>>Check out the adoption blog OSCAS and SOSD.