Midwest Critter Fest

Where Every Critter Belongs!

Are you wanting to compete this weekend but don't have someone to compete with? Well, that's what the adoption was made for. We are looking for single pets and single handlers to team up together for the weekend during our pet adoption. We will have plenty of time to socialize and make wonderful teams, and who knows your unlikely team could take the gold! This encourages people that might not have talked previously to work together and possibly gain a new friend through it.

The Vet will see you now. Are you competing this weekend? Then we highly suggest you see the vet for your physical and appropriate vaccines. We have to ensure that all of our pets are in top condition before they compete and our vet staff is prepared to serve you. Check in with the front desk to get your appointment. Participants will be given their papers and certification to prove they were seen and who knows you might be called back for an extra check-up.

Do you crave the spotlight? Do you have something amazing to share with the world just haven't had the space to do so? This talent show is for you! All ages are welcome and will have their chance to shine before our wonderful pets take the spotlight. We want to see your stuffy puppet shows, your hula-hoop dance routines and everything in between. The stage is yours show us what you got and leave your mark on the weekend!

Are you wanting to compete this weekend but don't have someone to compete with? Well, that's what the adoption was made for. We are looking for single pets and single handlers to team up together for the weekend during our pet adoption. We will have plenty of time to socialize and make wonderful teams, and who knows your unlikely team could take the gold! This encourages people that might not have talked previously to work together and possibly gain a new friend through it.

Join us for a wonderful campfire to celebrate the first night of our event and enjoy some hotdogs with all the fixins. Bring a Cigar and enjoy the atmosphere or just chat with your friends while you enjoy a beer.

Are you an early riser? Do you enjoy getting some early morning coffee or tea to start your day? Well, here is your opportunity to enjoy some time with likeminded people before the excitement of the day starts. Enjoy a small assortment of tea and coffee with all the fixins. Donations always welcome to support the weekend!

It's often said that good kink is good communication, but yet we often find ourselves in situations where our kinks can present obstacles to typical communication. Pet Play, for many people, can take this to completely new levels - we could communicate verbally, but it would take us right out of headspace! In this class, we'll discuss using a mix of prenegotiation, nonverbal check-ins, and auditory and physical cues to allow our nonverbal headspace to work for our scene communication, rather than against it.

Delta (he/him) is an easily excited, helplessly extroverted, absurdly kinky leather coyote pup with a passion for studying the history and philosophy of queer and kink communities, focusing on Leather and Pet Play. Not one to stick to theory, he spends as much time honing his skills as an active practitioner. Delta currently serves as Route 66 Pet 2025, a national education-focused title, which leads him to teach Pet Play, BDSM, and Queer History classes around the US. Back at home in Madison, Wisconsin, he also teaches Pet Play and related subjects at Bay Six Studio and at local events.

The Vet will see you now. Are you competing this weekend? Then we highly suggest you see the vet for your physical and appropriate vaccines. We have to ensure that all of our pets are in top condition before they compete and our vet staff is prepared to serve you. Check in with the front desk to get your appointment. Participants will be given their papers and certification to prove they were seen and who knows you might be called back for an extra check-up.

Our Bootblack is prepared to help you look your best this weekend.

It is time for the Competition to get kicked off with our pony based western competitions.

Barrel Racing:

This is the standard pattern for competition. It is mainly seen in the rodeo scene or the western riding scene. The course is simple. You take turns around the barrels as close as you dare to maximize your time. However, if you knock one over that will results in a fault. Faults are scored separately from time. If you have someone with 0 faults and a slow time. They will place higher than someone with 1 or more faults even if they have a faster time. It's all about precision!

Pole Bending:

Pole Bending is very similar to Barrel Racing where it is all about speed and precision. The pet will race to the back end of the line of weave poles. They will weave through all six before turning around and weaving back through all six again. Once you finish that last weave you turn and gallop for home. This race is also based on faults over speed. The pet that finishes the race the cleanest with the fastest time will come out on top!

Reining:

Reining is our last class of competition in this time block. This one is less about speed and more about the teamwork between handler and pet. They will be asked to preform a series of steps in a certain pattern. It could include: Walk, Trot, Canter, Back up, Turns, and quick stops. Handlers and pets will be given the pattern before the competition starts and given 15 minutes of prep time to perfect the pattern before showing it to the judges.

Sweeeee Pig Pig Pig! It's time to put your newfound knowledge of primal play to good use. We will be setting some pig players free and it is your job to catch them. Make sure those slippery piggies don't escape your grasp and make them squeal. The ones who catch those wiggly piggies will receive 20 raffle tickets per pig!

Do you enjoy catching things? Especially if they are soaring through the air? Then this class is for you! You will have 3 minutes to catch as many Frisbees as you can but you better put some style behind it. Lets see those fetching pets!

Pull! Pull with all your heart! This is nothing more than a feat of strength. We will hook you to a sled with a significant amount of weight on it and hook all of our pets to the sled. The pet that can pull it across the line the fastest in both classes will be reigned the champion. You get a singular pull so you better put your head down and put your entire body into it!

Come join us for a beautiful night and some lovely social time. Bring a drink or a cigar and relax into the night with us to ring in the next day. There will be hotdogs with all the fixins!

Are you an early riser? Do you enjoy getting some early morning coffee or tea to start your day? Well, here is your opportunity to enjoy some time with likeminded people before the excitement of the day starts. Enjoy a small assortment of tea and coffee with all the fixins. Donations always welcome to support the weekend!

Neurodivergency and Petplay. We’ll go over updates to the DSM-5, why a ND person might enjoy petplay, and how you can accommodate pets that may be on the spectrum.

The Vet will see you now. Are you competing this weekend? Then we highly suggest you see the vet for your physical and appropriate vaccines. We have to ensure that all of our pets are in top condition before they compete and our vet staff is prepared to serve you. Check in with the front desk to get your appointment. Participants will be given their papers and certification to prove they were seen and who knows you might be called back for an extra check-up.

Our Dock diving course is found on our Pup course as again that is normally the species you will see competing. Dock diving is simple. The handler or assistant will hold a pole with a buoy attached, dangling above a pool of water. The pet's job is simple retrieve the buoy before landing in the water.

The pet may and is encouraged to put as much style into their jumps as they dare. The ultimate goal is to retrieve the buoy but they will be rewarded with extra points for style. Missing the buoy will result in a deduction of points.

SO If you choose to focus more on grabbing it that might give you an edge over the ones who go for the style points. It's all about confidence and coordination!

Hunter Jumper is a pretty simple class. As with some of our other classes it is faults over time. Follow the course and jump the different hurdles in order without knocking anything over. A hurdle knocked over will result in a fault. A missed hurdle will result in a fault.

The course is numbered to make it easier for competitors to follow, and they will be walked through the course before starting it. Cleanest pet through the jumps takes the win!

 Agility is featured in our pup side of competition as that's the species you will normally see run it. In agility it normally consists of Jumps, tunnels, weave poles, a table square, sometimes a chute, and some tight turns thrown in here and there to throw off the competition.

For those of you that don't know I will explain the more obscure obstacles. The table square you have to wait inside a blocked off space for a count down before continuing. Do you think you can wait the entire 5 seconds in a high stakes race?

Then there's the chute. Have you ever seen a dog or a cat with a blanket over their head. The chute is a closed end tunnel where you have to push your way through the end all the while trying to keep your momentum. Sometimes it's harder than it sounds.

Just like with our barrel racing the object of the competition is precision. Time is ranked below faults on this course as well. The pet that runs through it cleaner will always come on top.