Sunday, May 13, 2012

Walk for Animals Review

Last Saturday I participated in the Humane Society's Walk for Animals for the 9th time. There were 8,000 participants and 4,000 animals there. Michael and our friends Tanya, Chris, their son Asher and their dog Cosmo also joined us again this year. The weather was cool and rainy/misty in the morning before the walk but by the time we actually started walking the rain held off for the entire five miles.

Thanks to wonderful people like yourself, I raised more money that I ever had in all my years doing this walk. I raised a total of $540! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! For my fundraising efforts, I received a bandanna, a t-shirt, a water bottle and a sweatshirt.

Thank you, my peeps!

Grandpa
Ed
Heidi
Justin
Scott and Julie
Pat
Van
Steffanie, Tuanis and Bentley
Heather
Deanna
Adam
Seaberg Family, Smoky & Bandit
Urtel Family
Jill
Carrie
Julie
Tara
Brenna
Jared
Andrea
Amelia
Sara
Ang and Boomer
Kristi (In loving memory of Pharaoh and Dusty)
Jenni, Sassy, Buddy, Honey and Nika
Michael, Fuzzer, Powder

The Humane Society is still short $60,000 of their $1 million goal (as of May 10) What does $60,000 provide?

To put that in perspective, $60,000 provides nine days of housing and love for the animals in our care.

Here are some facts as provided by the Humane Society about the walk:

Fun Facts

Donations came in from all 50 states and 10 different countries.

The average fundraiser raised $20.68 more than they did last year.

329 volunteers came to the Walk and contributed 1,400 hours in a single day!

Hundreds of people signed the Law of the Paw and received free ID tags to ensure their pets could be found if ever lost.

The Walk caught the attention of pop singer Ke$ha who sent a link of photos from the day to her over 3,000,000 followers on Twitter.

It took 156 gallons of water to keep the pets well hydrated along the Walk route.

We didn't see any out of the ordinary animals that we normally have seen in the past. We did see a tons of dogs, several cats, some rabbits, a hamster and several ferrets.

At the half-way, turn-around point, they had chips, granola bars and water for people as well as they had a short demonstration with some frisbee dogs.

After the walk, M and I were exhausted and came home and took showers right away. We feel the dirtiest after this walk as there is so much dog poop smell in the air, which lingers in your nose and makes you feel it's you that smells!