Join us for the Puppy & Handler Walk at Darklands and be part of something bigger! The pack, the pride, and the power of being unapologetically ourselves 🐶✨
Daddy Nick, Midwest Handler (2019–23) 🐾
Gender-fluid ginger Handler from the Midwest. Board Member, Midwest Pet & Handler Contest | Titleholder Liaison, Wisconsin Leather Pride | Founder of WATCH Moshes & Let’s Make F.E.T.C.H Happen. Championing safer, inclusive kink spaces.
Rob Rubber Scot, Mr Rubber Europe 2025, judge for European Puppy & Handler 🐾
Member of the Confederation of European Rubber Clubs and Leathermen Scotland, creator of Latex Relax & Shine,and proud Handler to Max. Bringing empathy, connection, and mischief to the panel.
Some may label puppy play as a kink or fetish but it’s important to understand what those words actually mean. Kink and fetish are not inherently sexual. At their core, they describe finding gratification, fulfilment, or meaning in something the wider world may see as unusual.
Puppy & Handler Walk – Darklands 🐾
We invite you to wear your pup hood out in public and join us for the Puppy & Handler Walk at Darklands.
Being a puppy can be a powerful form of self-expression and a way to connect, find joy, and build community like no other.
Contestant educational videos are LIVE!
Get to know our contestants!
👉 Watch: epahc.eu/learn/videos
📺 YouTube: @EuropeanPuppyandHandler
Welcoming Orion, International Puppy 2025, as a judge for European Puppy & Handler 🐾
Salvadorian, trans, gender-fluid Alpha pup, bootblack, educator, and founder of Chronically Kinky, championing accessible kink spaces.
Welcome to the panel!
That gratification can come from community, headspace, connection, trust, identity, or belonging.
By walking together, we celebrate visibility, challenge misconceptions, and show that our communities are diverse, joyful, and rooted in consent and self-expression.
Meet our final judges & your current European titleholders! 🐾
Welcome Stefano, European Handler, & Khao, European Puppy ’25, to the judging panel!
Annually on may 17th we celebrate IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. In 2026 we do so under the slogan "At the Heart of Democracy". That's why we turned to our own community! To those who sent us these beautiful photos, thank you!
