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Thanks for Joining us at Downtown Dog Days!

Saturday, October 4, 2025 | 10am - 2pm
Fremont Downtown Event Center Plaza
3500 Capitol Ave., Fremont, CA

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Join the City of Fremont and Tri-City Animal Shelter for a tail-wagging good time! This FREE, family-friendly event features exciting dog handling demonstrations and trainings, hands-on dog-themed crafts, local vendors, food trucks, storytime sessions for kids, dog adoptions, and a low-cost pet vaccination clinic. Come celebrate our four-legged friends and connect with your community! Emcee’d by local radio host Sylvia Chacon, from iHeart Media’s 98.1FM.

  • Dog Adoptions with Tri-City Animal Shelter and partner organizations

  • Childrens’ Storytime Sessions with Pam Adler, Author of Maddy and Mia: TriPaw Tales, and the Alameda County Public Library.

  • First-come, first-served low-cost pet vaccination clinic with Cheap Shots in partnership with PAWS (Line up by 12:15pm for the clinic.)

  • NEW IN OCTOBER: Dog costume contest! Watch at 11:30am on the lawn

  • Hands-on dog-themed crafts

  • Local vendors with dog-themed items

  • Food trucks

Schedule:

10:30 a.m. Storytime with the Alameda County Library

11:00 a.m. Focus Games Class for Distracted Dogs, Pre-Registration Required, but you can still watch!

11:30 a.m. Costume Contest! Pre-Registration Required, Check In at Info Booth

12:00 p.m. Storytime with Local Author Pamela Adler

12:30 p.m. Confidence Games Class for Dogs, Pre-Registration Required, but you can still watch!

1:00 p.m. Storytime with Local Author Pamela Adler

1:30 p.m. Focus Games Class for Distracted Dogs, Pre-Registration Required, but you can still watch!

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Storytime Sessions

Join local author Pamela Adler and the Alameda County Public Library for special storytime sessions during Downtown Dog Days!

Childrens’ Storytime Schedule:

10:30 a.m. Storytime with the Alameda County Library

12:00 p.m. Storytime with author Pamela Adler

1:00 p.m.  Storytime with author Pamela Adler

Pamela Adler is the author of Maddy and Mia: TriPaw Tales, a story inspired by her very own pup, Mia.

Scenes from the last Downtown Dog Days event!

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