WINTHROP — Father’s Day went to the cats and dogs on Sunday.

The dads were a little slow in coming to “Demos for Dad,” a promotion by Gagnon’s Boats and Motors of Livermore Falls as a benefit for the P.A.L.S. No-Kill Cat Shelter in Winthrop.

On Sunday the dealer had three boats tied to floating docks at the Norcross Point boat launch on Maranacook Lake, Winthrop.

It was the second year for the event, and last year’s test drive brought the same bright blue skies as well as 30 or 40 people who tried out the watercraft.

“We believe the animals should be saved, and we’re animal lovers ourselves,” said Pauline Gagnon, whose family has one rescue cat and four dogs. “We ask the customers coming to ride in the boat to donate to P.A.L.S.”

One craft was a Monterey surf boat, engineered to allow a wake surfer to get up on a board and then drop a line and continue to ride the curl made by the wake. Two wake/surf boards fit snugly into the carriers on the surf tower, which also held speakers.

The others were a pontoon boat and a bow-rider.

“The surf boat is the new and up and coming thing,” Gagnon said. It appeals to young and older boarders and allows the 50- and 60-year-olds to compete in surfing because the boat travels about 11 miles an hour, providing for softer wipe-outs.

Also, the props driven by the Volvo Penta inboard engine were underneath the boat and not behind it.

“On a surf boat, it you fall down, you wouldn’t get hit by the prop,” Gavin Gagnon said.

The surf boats are priced starting at about $44,000.

Next to the boat display, people from the cat shelter, including the shelter’s new executive director, Theresa Silsby, offered hot dogs and other food for sale. She said records showed last year’s fundraiser brought in about $300.

The shelter currently holds 70 cats in the big room, plus 10 to 15 more in isolation and nine other cats with Feline Immuniodeficiency Virus that are kept separate from the other animals.

“It’s kitten season,” said Silsby. “Throughout July they’ll be coming in six or seven at a time.” Generally that’s when the no-kill shelter must halt taking in new cats because it can only hold so many animals.

It offers the kittens for adoption once they’ve been vaccinated and spayed or neutered.

In Augusta, the Maine Greyhound Placement Service on Old Belgrade Road held the second day of its weekend Open House 2016, which was also partly a fundraiser. It offered a demonstration of a Maine search-and-rescue dog as well as tours of its kennels.

Bruce Perkins of Gorham, an area representative for the service, spent most of his Father’s Day greeting visitors and showing off his two greyhounds, Cinnamon, 6, and Digger, 10. He said one of his sons had already given him a Father’s Day gift: a new sprinkler head for watering the garden.

Executive Director Scott Bruns said a number of people who have adopted the retired greyhounds get together with their dogs. Since the service opened in Augusta 13 years ago, Bruns estimated between 4,000 and 5,000 greyhounds have been placed.

There are 26 greyhounds in the Augusta kennels currently, he said, all between 18 months and 5 years old. The Augusta service also supplies greyhounds to adoption kennels in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

The Greyhound Placement Service hospital provides low-cost spay and neuter services to a number of area shelters, including P.A.L.S., the Kennebec Valley Humane Society and the Humane Society Waterville Area, Bruns said.