Canines Flood Cantigny for Fifth Annual 'Dog Days'

Hundreds of dogs of all shapes, sizes and stripes came together in Wheaton’s Cantigny Park on Saturday for the fifth annual Dog Days canine festival and doggie meet-up, the Daily Herald reports.

According to the paper, the event—which saw 4,500 human and 1,000 canine attendees last year—featured more than 50 vendor booths, a photo stand, musical hoops and a peanut butter-licking contest (presumably for the dogs, not their owners. 

Typically, dogs are not allowed in Cantigny, and many pooches were nearly bursting with excitement over the opportunity, the paper said.

"He thinks this is his birthday party," one dog owner, Debbie Carroll of Brookfield, told the paper of her bulldog Winston, who was indeed turning six years old Saturday. 

"There are so many smells here for a dog,” another owner, Becky Cross of Naperville, told the paper. “She's been trying all the different water dishes," 

Watch a video of the event above, courtesy of the Herald.

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