{"id":1346,"date":"2015-02-03T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T09:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/?page_id=1346"},"modified":"2024-01-05T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:44:14","slug":"youd-be-barking-mad-to-miss-puppy-bowl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/pawesome\/news\/youd-be-barking-mad-to-miss-puppy-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;d be barking mad to miss Puppy Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"review\">\n<p class=\"txt\">Now in its 11<sup>th<\/sup> year, Puppy Bowl is seriously one of the most popular and absolute cutest games to grace the screen. Okay, so it might not be the biggest sporting event on the calendar, but by god it hands down comes tops for cuteness!<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"613\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-951 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/002-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/002-10.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/002-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/002-10-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">The whole premise sees a bunch of pups and a pile of doggy toys placed on a 10-by-19-foot indoor football field and allows furry havoc to reign supreme. Sounds like fun right? Well it certainly is for the spectators, who get to sit back and coo over the super-cute puppies tackling and tumbling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-950 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/004.jpeg 1023w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/004-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/004-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">This year there\u2019s one difference, rather than it being every dog for himself, the 55 participating puppies have been divided into two teams\u2014Fluff and Ruff. (I\u2019m feeling an \u201cawww\u201d coming on!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"680\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-949 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/001-star-line-up.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/001-star-line-up.jpeg 896w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/001-star-line-up-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/001-star-line-up-768x583.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">The stars of Puppy Bowl (some of which are pictured above) aren\u2019t just any old Fido or Fred. The 85 puppies that attended the initial shoot (only 55 were selected) came from 37 animal shelters around America and Puerto Rico.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, all except three of the 85 pups have since been adopted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">From touch downs and puppy penalties to fierce fouls and\u2026.dwarf goat cheerleaders (yes, you heard right!), Puppy Bowl is promising to be every bit as fun and perhaps even more compelling viewing than previous years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1484\" height=\"989\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/003.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/003.jpeg 1484w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/003-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/003-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/003-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">Puppy Bowl 2015 airs on the Animal Planet channel in the US on Sunday, February 2<sup>nd<\/sup> at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">In the meantime, check out some of the highlights and behind-the-scenes shots from Puppy Bowl 2014.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid466541\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 366px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hGrhEac1PLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in its 11th year, Puppy Bowl is seriously one of the most popular and absolute cutest games to grace the screen. Okay, so it might not be the biggest sporting event on the calendar, but by god it hands down comes tops for cuteness! The whole premise sees a bunch of pups and a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/pawesome\/news\/youd-be-barking-mad-to-miss-puppy-bowl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You&#8217;d be barking mad to miss Puppy Bowl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":952,"parent":1076,"menu_order":526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sub-sub-details-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1346\/revisions\/4324"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}