SEQUIM — When Bonnie and Gordon McGill told folks to come over on Saturday afternoon and bring the dogs, people listened.
The owners of 68 dogs — all the same breed, all the same color (the dogs, that is) — sent RSVPs.
And come Saturday the McGills’ lawn on Towne Road was a playground for dozens of fluffy white pooches — all bichon frises.
This was the second year for the Bichon Bash, a fundraiser for Small Paws Rescue, a Tulsa, Okla.-based group that finds homes for mistreated dogs.
Events like this take place all over the country, said Robin Pressnall, the group’s executive director who traveled from Tulsa to attend the event.
“Every weekend during the summer there’s an event going on,” she said.
Since forming seven years ago, Small Paws has placed 5,000 bichons in new homes.
The group rescues dogs from commercial breeding operations, pays for veterinary care and to have them spayed or neutered, and looks for homes for the dogs.
It’s a large undertaking.