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From the Humane Society’s website: Dog-A-Thon 2008 A Howling Success!
$130,000 raised for homeless animals! Updates coming soon, but preliminary results show that the Dog-A-Thon raised $130,000 for homeless animals!!! Stay tuned for more information!

And on a side note, more donations continue to pour in on our firstgiving page! Thank you! Our on and offline total is at $665.00. Rock and Roll!

Updated: Photos from the event taken by Marguerite here >>

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.

3 days until The Humane Society of Tacoma Pierce County’s Dog-A-Thon 2008 event happening on Saturday July 26. We’ve raised $295.00 online so far. Visit www.firstgiving.com/dionneknafelz to donate or pass along this link to anyone who might be interested. This year we’ll be walking in Mazzy’s name. Rock n’ Roll!

It’s that time of year again for our favorite charity event - The Humane Society of Tacoma Pierce County’s Dog-A-Thon 2008! Even though we no longer reside in Pierce County, this annual event is still the most important project we take part in every year. Last year our team, Mixed Bag o’ Mutts, raised $2130.00. This year we hope to double, even triple that amount. Please visit our personal fundraising site to help us in our fight to end homelessness for Cats and Dogs in Pierce County. December 2008 has been set as the Target Date for The Pierce County Humane Society to reach it’s goal of no kill community shelter status, and we really want to see this become a reality. Please help us help the animals. Karma will thank you for it. And it’s a tax write off!

Click here to donate and to learn more about this life saving event >>