Photo: Lawrence WangIf you needed proof that BGC belongs to the dogs on Pet Huddle weekend, it was the sight of Bonifacio High Street at 4 p.m. on Saturday: a slow, happy river of leashes, strollers, and wagging tails stretching from Central Square to the amphitheater.
The 2026 summer edition packed more than 50 merchants along the strip — small-batch treat bakers, indie accessory brands, groomers doing walk-in trims — and the crowd did not come to window-shop. By Sunday afternoon, several vendors had sold out entirely; one freeze-dried treat maker restocked twice and still went home empty.
The Pet Runway remained the emotional center of the fair. This year's lineup leaned hard into rescue stories: local dogs in barong-inspired capes, a one-eyed persian carried like the royalty she clearly is, and the instant folk hero of the weekend — a rabbit named Bibingka who wore a sunhat through the entire show with total composure.
Saturday's heat was intense, but the organizers' misting stations and water-bowl posts every few meters did their job. The morning pet blessing drew its usual quietly moving crowd, and adoption partners reported strong interest across both days, with several applications entering screening before the fair closed.
The Pet Parade capped Sunday with its usual joyful disorder — a golden retriever led the column for roughly ten meters before being overtaken by a dachshund with an agenda.
Pet Huddle has been running since 2021 and this edition made the case, again, that it is the community fair the Manila pet scene measures everything else against. Keep an eye on the organizer's page for the next edition's dates — and Bibingka, if you're reading this, the sunhat stays.