For many animal rescue groups and shelters, Super Bowl Sunday is the highlight of their year – not for football, but for the other big game happening that day: Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl special
. The annual televised event features dozens of puppies taking to a scaled-down football stadium and field. A referee oversees Team Ruff versus Team Fluff as they play for the coveted “Lombarky” Trophy. The goal is to get the ball into an endzone; it doesn’t really matter which one. But the real point is to get every player on the field adopted into forever homes while promoting shelter and foster pet awareness. For that, Puppy Bowl sports a perfect 19-0 record.
” Road to Puppy Bowl What you see on TV is the result of months of preparation, which includes rescue groups getting their pups ready for their closeups. “We do a lot of work on our end ahead of Puppy Bowl to make sure that our dogs are socialized, that they’re happy, that they can handle bright lights and loud noises, and all those things that you see on a TV set,” Johnson says.
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