NATIONAL DOG DAY · AUG 22–26, 2026
Celebrate National Dog Day With Puppies on the Mat
A nationwide weekend of puppy yoga — every class supports local rescues and helps adoptable dogs find homes.
One day a year, the whole country celebrates dogs. We celebrate with rescues.
This August 26 is National Dog Day — and Kitten Paws and Downward Dogs is marking it the only way we know how: rooms full of adoptable rescue puppies, yoga mats, and people falling in love. From Saturday, Aug 22 through National Dog Day itself, we’re hosting puppy yoga classes in cities across the country, each one a fundraiser and adoption event for a local rescue.
Roll out a mat. Flow through a gentle, all-levels practice. Let a puppy climb into your lap. Every ticket supports the rescue bringing the dogs — and every wag helps one more find a forever home.
Be first to know when we come to your city
We’re confirming locations now. Drop your email and we’ll tell you the moment a National Dog Day class opens near you.
🐾 100+ events hosted | 💛 $100K+ raised for rescues | 🐶 All-rescue puppies, never breeders
🏛️ Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Want to host National Dog Day in your community?
We handle the puppies, the rescue partnership, and the promotion. You bring the room and your community.
Studios & Venues
Yoga studios, breweries, offices, and event spaces: host a class and put your community face-to-face with adoptable puppies — at no cost to you.
Animal Rescues
Partner with us to bring your adoptable puppies, raise funds, and put your dogs in front of hundreds of potential adopters — at zero cost to you.
sponsor National Dog Day in a city
Put your brand in the room where hundreds of dog lovers meet adoptable rescue puppies. Sponsor a city — we’ll feature your logo on event materials, the participant sticker, and our promotion, all in support of a local rescue.
Don’t Miss It
National Dog Day only comes once a year. Get on the list and celebrate with us — on the mat, with the puppies, for the rescues.