Pensacola Pawdi Gras

09/04/2025

🎉🐾 The countdown is ON!

We are officially 150 days away from the 5th Annual Pensacola Paw-di Gras — the biggest dog Mardi Gras event from here to New Orleans! 🐶💜💚💛

✨ On Sunday, February 1, 2026, downtown Pensacola will shut down for the ultimate block paw-ty:

🐾 Meet fellow dog lovers
🐾 Stroll through sponsor & vendor booths
🐾 Play games (for both humans & pups!)
🐾 Sip, snack & celebrate with food & drinks
🐾 Meet adoptable dogs
🐾 Join the paw-rade & costume contests
🐾 Soak in carnival season — doggie style!

🏆 This award-winning event was recently voted Pensacola’s Best Pet Event and named runner-up for Best Parade & Best Charity Event.

👉 We are now seeking sponsors to join us in making this year the most paw-some one yet! Want to be part of an event that brings together 6,000+ people, 300+ pups, and raises funds for animals in need? Let’s chat!

📅 Save the date, grab your pup, and get ready to strut.

08/27/2025

🌟🐾 Calling All Animal Lovers & Community Champions! 🐾🌟

The 5th Annual Paw-di Gras is coming to downtown Pensacola on Sunday, February 1, 2026 — and we’re looking for amazing sponsors to help us make it the best one yet! 🎭🐶

Over the past 3.5 years, Paw-di Gras has raised over $85,000 in monetary and in-kind donations for local animals in need. Together with our sponsors, we’ve provided heartworm treatments, new beds, collars, leashes, and so much more for the pets waiting on their forever homes at the Escambia County Department of Animal Welfare. 🏡💜

✨ There are so many ways to get involved:

Become an official event sponsor 🐾

Donate raffle items, prizes, or gift cards 🎁

Provide dog or human goodies to fill swag bags 🎒

Honor a beloved pet with a Rainbow Bridge sign 🌈

Or simply join us on Garden Street to celebrate and support! 🎶🍻🐕

This event was just voted Pensacola’s Best Pet Event 🏆 (and runner-up for Best Charity Event + Best Parade!) — all thanks to our community of animal lovers, local businesses, and YOU.

👉 If your heart (and brand) loves giving back, we’d love to have you join our Paw-di Gras family this year. Together, we can make tails wag, glasses clink, and lives change. 🐾💜

📩 For sponsorship details, email us at [email protected]

You can also check-out the sponsorship tiers by visiting https://www.wolfgangparkandbrews.com/pawdi-gras-sponsors

Become an Official 2025 Pawdi Gras Sponsor to help raise awareness and funds for the Escambia County Animal Welfare Benefactor.

08/21/2025

🎉🐾 WOW, Pensacola – we did it! 🐾🎉

WolfGang Pensacola’s Paw-di Gras has officially been voted Inweekly’s 2025 Best Pet Event AND named Runner-Up for Best Charity Event & Best Parade! 🏆💜💚💛

It’s hard to believe that just 3.5 years ago this event was only a dream. Today, it has grown into Pensacola’s biggest dog Mardi Gras celebration – and it’s all thanks to YOU, our community of animal lovers. Together, we’ve raised over $85,000 in monetary and donated goods to help local animals in need. Each year, it just keeps getting better.

From our benefactor, to sponsors, to vendors, to community partners, adoption agencies, and the people of Pensacola and surrounding areas, thank you for making this the best pet event and seeing what we do with our annual philanthropy side.

From the bottom of our hearts (and paws) – thank you, Pensacola. 🐶💖 We love you, and we can’t wait to celebrate even bigger in 2026!

WolfGang Pensacola
Inweekly Media

08/11/2025

🌈 Honor the pets who left paw prints on your heart 🌈

At the 5th Annual Pensacola Pawdi Gras , we’re once again creating a special Rainbow Bridge Memorial Area to celebrate the love and memories of pets who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge. 💜🐾

With a Rainbow Bridge Sponsorship ($100), your pet’s photo and name will be displayed on a beautiful sign in our memorial area during the event. We will also honor them on our social media pages. After Paw-di Gras, you'll be able to take your sign home.

It’s a heartfelt way to be part of this community celebration while helping us raise funds for local animals in need.

📧 For more information or to reserve your pet’s sign, email us at [email protected].

Let’s fill the Rainbow Bridge area with love, memories, and the pets who made our lives whole. 🐶💖🐱

08/06/2025

🌟🐾 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Cue the confetti, crank up the boombox, and prepare your hearts — because the icons of community kindness are BACK! 🐾🌟

We are beyond thrilled to welcome back Hanto & Clarke as a Presenting Sponsor for the 3rd year in a row for the 5th Annual Pensacola Paw-di Gras!

These guys don’t just build spaces — they build hope, community, and compassion. From uplifting our city through their work to giving back to children and animals in need, Hanto & Clarke are the real deal.

They’re not just sponsors — they’re family. 💛 Whether it’s inviting a shelter dog to hang out at their Palafox shop (shoutout to the employee who adopted one! 🙌) or jumping in to support wherever needed, they show up for Pensacola with full hearts and contagious energy.

Kind, hilarious, and endlessly generous, they embody everything Paw-di Gras is about: community, compassion, and canines. 🐾✨

We’re SO grateful to have them alongside us again this year — it truly wouldn’t be the same without you, Don, Michael, and Stephen. Thank you for continuing to show what it means to be community lovers in Pensacola. 🧡

Let’s build another paw-some year together — February 1, 2026, can’t come fast enough! 🎭🐶

07/29/2025

🍕🐾 RADICAL NEWS, PIZZA LOVERS! 🐾🍕

We’re so pumped to welcome back the one and only Papa’s Pizza Downtown for their 3rd year as sponsors of the Pensacola Paw-di Gras paw-ty! 🎉

Right in the heart of the event space, these pizza legends serve up the best slices in downtown Pensacola, and they do it with a whole lotta heart (and a side of dog love). 🐶🍺❤️

Not only do they support this event year after year — they go all in on the fun! From totally tubular costumes to the perfect combo of pizza, beer, dogs, and good vibes, Papa’s is a core part of what makes Paw-di Gras so unforgettable.

Swing by and show them some love on February 1, 2026, and anytime you’re downtown — because great pizza + great people = a paws-itively perfect match! 💜

07/28/2025

One of our biggest fundraisers starts on Saturday!!

07/28/2025

🎮💜 READY TO PRESS PAWS & PLAY?! 💜🎮

We’re stoked to announce that our longtime friends at Play are returning as Sponsors for the 5th Annual Pensacola Paw-di Gras! 🐾👑

From year one, Play has been part of the Paw-di Gras party — bringing big energy, bigger laughs, and the paw-fect after-paw-ty spot right on the Paw-rade route! 🕹️🐶

Located on Palafox Street, Play’s adult arcade welcomes you and your pups to keep the good times rollin’ after the paw-rade ends. Their love for this community (and our four-legged krewe) is what makes them totally radical! 🤘

We seriously LOVE these guys and are so pumped to have them back again this year — it wouldn’t be the same without them! 🎉🐾

So, grab your neon gear and get ready to paw-ty like it's 1989 with our Jester Sponsor heroes at Play on February 1, 2026!

07/25/2025

🐾🎉 Camp Bow Wow is back, baby! 🎉🐾

We’re stoked to welcome our gnarly friends at Camp Bow Wow Pensacola back for their second year as Paw-di Gras sponsors! 🐶💜

They’re the go-to spot for tail-waggin’ fun and top-tier doggy care — and their love for this event (and our furry friends) is totally tubular. 🕺🎾

Catch them on the Paw-di Gras strip Feb 1, 2026 — it's gonna be a paw-ty you won't wanna miss! 🎭

05/06/2025

We would love ❤️ your vote! 💜💚

04/09/2025

🚨 VIP Pensacola nominations begin TODAY through April 25th.

You all know the heart and soul we put into creating Pensacola Paw-di Gras, and we would LOVE your support by nominating the event for BEST ANNUAL EVENT!

How to nominate:
👉 Head to https://vippensacola.com/best-in-pensacola/ #//
👉 Click ENTERTAINMENT
👉 Head to the ANNUAL EVENT portion, and enter Pensacola Paw-di Gras into the spot!
💯 you can nominate us DAILY until April 25th, so we can make the final voting round!

We appreciate your love and support of our biggest annual event! We ❤️ you all

WolfGang Pensacola

04/01/2025

We would love for you guys to head to the Entertainment/Leisure category and then festivals/fairs to nominate Pensacola Paw-di Gras! This will help us make the ballot to be voted for! We appreciate your love and support of this event. Each year, we are passed up. We've won runner up in the past, but we believe its our time to shine, and hope you do, too!

Thank you! 🐾🧡

Submit your favorite area companies for consideration and be entered to win a gift card!