Dog-a-Thon 2008 Results
Greetings! Dog-a-Thon 2008 totals are still rolling in, but our individual totals for the day came to $570.00! Thank you to everyone who participated in sponsoring us, your contributions make a difference! Even better, I have noticed that donations are STILL coming in online and in the mail, and this is wonderful! All these contributions go straight towards the The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County. The closest I can get to a total for the entire event is for online contributions from firstgiving: 365 people have raised $74,082 for The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County . My guess is double this for the number of people who collected off line. I hope there is some Tacoma News coverage that will surface soon for this very important event .
This year there were lots of lovely dogs! We saw a few Great Danes, Some Chinese Crested Powder Puffs, a few sable Huskies, Basset Hounds, Beagles and the list goes on. A dog lover’s paradise! Our Team Mixed Bag ‘o Mutts had a collective total of at least $4000.00. Way to Go Mikki & Puccini and Margaret, Fiona & Neva! You can see a little slideshow Margaret has posted from the event.
Lucy did really well on the 1 mile walk. She gets pretty tired these days, she’s no longer the 4 mile girl she was when she was 2! Also she gets more cranky than she used to. After a while she was over all the hub bub and actually snapped at Bosco the Bulldog and a nice Boxer. Wrinkle discrimination? I don’t know. It was embarrassing!
After the event we celebrated with lunch and a beer at the Spar, with Jeff and Andrea. The perfect ending to a perfect morning!
Thank you Corey for taking these the great pictures of the event featured in this post.
Special Thanks to Mom Cristina, Chica Fernandez, Julie, Dawn G, Dawn AJ, Mom Sue, Laura, Dee Dee, Andrea and Jeff, Dad Larry, an Anonymous Donor (Mazzy), Corey, Lucy and Deezy.
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This was our most successful event ever! THANKS for your participation. It was indeed a canine carnival and a joy to see the variety of dogs and their families.
Kathleen Olson
The Humane Society
for Tacoma and Pierce County
It’s an honor for us to help serve the community in this way. Kathleen - we hope the Tribune has covered this event and that totals will be posted soon - so we can report it here at Stoutpup.com.
Great blog and photos! You guys rock! It was great to see Puccini and all your pals. I’ll email you the photo I took. By the way, the Firstgiving totals (I didn’t even know the public could get those numbers from their website!) are actually a total of ALL the Dog-A-Thons we’ve used Firstgiving for — the past three, I believe. I have to do a special report to get 2008 numbers only. It was actually $34,906 raised online by about 140 people, and lots more turned in at the event. I think our net will be around $130,000 — the best we’ve ever done, thanks to you guys!!! We should have team standings and all that in a few days, we’ll let you know!!!
Thanks Marguerite! We’ll stay tuned for team standings and totals…