Thousands of plastic Easter eggs filled with goodies littered the grass surrounding Lizzi & Rocco’s Natural Pet Market’s Green Meadows location Sunday afternoon.
Hundreds of dog owners turned out in droves for the annual Dog Easter Egg Hunt. The event’s donation proceeds went to Unchained Melodies, a dog rescue organization. Visitors were required to have their dogs spayed or neutered and kept on four-foot leashes.
Dog owners wrestle with their pets’ patience while they pose for a photograph with the Easter Bunny during the Dog Easter Egg Hunt event at Lizzi & Rocco’s Natural Pet Market on Sunday in Columbia. Melody Whitworth of Unchained Melodies was taking photographs of visitors with the mascot before the hunt began.
From left, Unchained Melodies foster caretaker Toni Guinnip shows off Bluey to Jack Brooks, 7, as the Dog Easter Egg Hunt at Lizzi & Rocco’s nears its end Sunday in Columbia. Bluey is from the same litter as another Unchained Melodies foster dog, Bingo, and the dogs both wore blue and orange bandanas that read, “adopt me!”
Dog owners await the go-ahead to begin the hunt Sunday at Lizzi & Rocco’s Natural Pet Market in Columbia. Lizzi & Rocco’s supplied the plastic eggs, treats and coupons, while Unchained Melodies supplied volunteers to stuff each egg with the prizes. The founder and director of the dog rescue, Melody Whitworth, said their three volunteers spent up to a collective 12 hours putting thousands of eggs together.
Bingo, an Unchained Melodies foster dog, runs up to play with the Easter Bunny after the Dog Easter Egg Hunt event Sunday at Lizzi & Rocco’s Natural Pet Market in Columbia. Bingo is part of a litter with Bluey-inspired names fostered by Unchained Melodies that was brought to the event to represent the organization. Bingo, however, did not find any eggs.
The floodgates open for hunting at the start of Lizzi & Rocco’s Natural Pet Market’s annual Dog Easter Egg Hunt at their Green Meadows location Sunday in Columbia. Dogs quickly led their owners to uncollected eggs, sometimes pausing to smell and play with other pets in the dense crowd. The entire hunt lasted roughly 10 minutes.
Harper lounges in a patch of grass and waits for his owner, Tish Johnson, to get ready for the main egg hunting activity during the Dog Easter Egg Hunt event Sunday at Lizzi & Rocco’s Natural Pet Market in Columbia. Harper has iris hypoplaisa, which means his pupils don’t constrict, and requires protective eye gear.
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