This Saturday, October 24th you can join in the fight against cancer by participating in the K9K Pet Cancer Awareness Walk.  Registration is only open through Oct. 22, so don’t delay!

The New York VPI

K9K Pet Cancer Awareness Walk

SATURDAY, OCT. 24, 2009

Check-in at 9:00 AM at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn (adjacent to the base of the Brooklyn Bridge)

Walk begins at 10:00 AM

Help VPI fight pet cancer! In honor of our National Pet Cancer Awareness Month, we’re welcoming all pet lovers and their dogs to join us in a walk to benefit the Animal Cancer Foundation and its efforts in cancer prevention and treatment research.

This 4K walk is open to anyone who wants to support the cause, so be sure to forward this e-mail to any of your pet-loving friends who’d like to join us

Your entire registration fee will be donated to the Animal Cancer Foundation and includes a commemorative event T-shirt, a bandana for your pet(s) and post-event refreshments.

If you have any additional questions- please contact us  via email.

Thank you for supporting Pet Cancer Awareness. We hope to see you at the K9K!

* Thanks Annabelle for barking to me about this event.

1. October 10th & 11th SPCA Adoption Extravaganza of Westchester, NY:  Featuring over 200 Puppies & Family Dogs rescued from high-kill shelters. Many adorable Kittens & Cats are looking for new homes too! This special event will be held at the SPCA of Westchester, located at 590 North State Road in Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510.

2. October 11th Bark In The Park in NJ: The Liberty Humane Society will host its sixth annual Bark in the Park Dog Walk and Event Fair on Sunday, Oct. 11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. The event organizers anticipate more than 500 attendees this year and hope to raise $100,000 for Hudson County animals in need. The event will feature a two-mile dog walk with views of the Statue of Liberty, the New York skyline, and Ellis Island; the Pit Bull Parade for Pets and People Too; all-day entertainment; and many more canine contests and games. Cost for the walk is $15 per dog and $20 for two dogs. For more information, visit LibertyHumane.org.

3.  October 11th Surf City Surf Dog in Huntington Beach, CA: On Sunday, Oct. 11, the inaugural Surf City Surf Dog is bound to attract attention as “man’s best friend” takes on the challenge of surfing! So grab your surfboard and pup and join us! Or, if surfing isn’t your pup’s thing, enter one of our MANY contests! Benefiting various Southern California dog charities. Huntington Beach, CA 8 am – 2 pm www.SurfCitySurfDog.com

4. October 10th  S.T.A.R.S. 4th Annual Dog Walk & Festival in Stratford, CT: Stroll 1 mile to benefit homeless animals then join in on fun for the whole family where Stratford’s 4th celebration of the “Family Pet” will offer music, food, games, vendors, crafters, face painting, microchip clinic, pet psychic,Touch A Truck and much more. Visit WhoLetTheDogsOutFestival.com for more info.

5. October 10th Animal Rescue Fund Walk-A-Thon in Three Rivers, MI:  The Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) of St. Joseph County, Michigan will hold its 12th annual Walk-A-Thon to raise funds to assist in animal welfare throughout the county. This year’s event will be held at Meyer-Broadway Park in Three Rivers on Sat., Oct. 10, 2009. Walkers may participate with or without a dog.

Check out more fun events at one of Bo’s favorite magazines, Modern Dog.

Dogster member Christy is a volunteer for a wonderful organization, Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen, which provides food to pet owners who can no longer afford to feed their pet.

Daffy’s has hooked up with the Making Of Miracle Stories Rescue Group for a puppy caravan. Since Christy is directly involved and knows much more about it than I do she was kind enough to write something up on the upcoming event

Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen welcomes and supports the Georgia Puppy Caravan. You’ve read blogs on Dogster about Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen, a pet food bank in Lawrenceville, GA.

Daffy’s and the SOS Club were founded by Tom Wargo 12 years ago to provide pet food and services to families in need. Volunteers at Daffy’s work diligently to keep families and their pets together, they work continuously and hold a variety of fundraising events. This Friday, Daffy’s is lending a helping hand to The MOMS (Making of Miracle Stories) Rescue group by supporting the Georgia Puppy Caravan. MOMS was formed by two New Jersey women with their children in an effort to bring awareness to the millions of homeless animals in our country. They believe children to be the rescuers of the future.

The GA Puppy Caravan is (literally) a caravan of RVs, cars, motorcycles and planes traveling from New Jersey to Georgia on August 19-23, 2009. They are making this crusade because of their intense love and devotion to animals with support from Animal Rescue Flights (ARF), Freedom Train Animal Rescue Transports, Barking Hound Village, Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen, Animal Adoption Center, Georgia SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Dogs On Death Row, Rescue Ink, Save Our Pets Foodbank, Chattooga County Animal Control Shelter, Ningun Films, Bodhi, Grove Productions, OFG Productions. In addition, The Animal Adoption Center of Lindenwold, NJ travels with MOMS as a receiving rescue to transport rescued animals “Home”.

Donations of food and supplies will be brought to GA and distributed through the guidance and good work of Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen. Due to their well known accomplishments, the volunteers from Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen were asked to assist in the distribution of the pet food and mentor other pet food banks in their efforts to help animals. Many animals will be saved from inhumane deaths because of the combined and extreme efforts of these groups. This is expected to be the largest awareness and rescue program Georgia has ever seen. You can help, please join us. To follow the crusade check the MOMS website and follow the Georgia Puppy Caravan.

Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen, a program of SOS Club, has many ongoing programs to save animals and help their human counterparts. Daffy’s has been delivering food on a regular basis to outlying animal controls and rural shelters in need keeping pets fed and off the euthanasia list. The latest program for Tom Wargo and his volunteers is the PAST (Pet Assistance Service Team) trailer (pictured above and purchased with the help of Petco sponsors). This trailer, along with our others, will be used to increase the areas the group can reach and support.

The MOMS Rescue is doing an amazing thing by organizing these groups to deliver thousands of pounds of food to Georgia and taking shelter animals to the northeast where they will have a better chance for adoption. The event will wrap up Friday night with a party at The Foundry at Puritan Mill in Atlanta. Tickets are $25 and the public is welcome. Please visit FultonAnimal Services for more information.

This is an incredible event that will bring much needed awareness to serious animal issues we face every day. Remember that Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen will continue feeding and helping animals and their owners across the country every single day – even after the Caravan has left. Your continued support will make that happen. Read more about Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen or call 404-345-6821. For more information on the SOS Club contact us via email.

We hope you will support these efforts. Show your support for animals by coming out to the Foundry on Friday night 8/21.

Wow, what an amazing event. Kudos to MOMS and Daffy’s along with all the other organizations involved to pull off this massive undertaking. All the people involved give selflessy of their time and money, let’s show our support by attending the event on August 21st or by making a donation to any of the wonderful organizations mentioned above.

Instead of watching a movie about a dog, what about watching one with your dog?

There’s a fun event happening August 14th to benefit local dog organizations in the Oakland, CA. area.

HOLLYWOOF fundraiser: Movie Night with your Dog!

Your dog will be howling with joy! Hollywoof is a one-of-a-kind event for both dog lovers and dogs alike. With a dog masseuse pampering pooches, photographers taking candid portraits, free raffle prizes from local businesses, and a “Doggy” Bar, there will be plenty of entertainment for you and your pup.

To cap off the evening, we will be showing the award winning documentary, “MINE” by local independent film maker Geralyn Pezanoski. All proceeds will benefit local organizations, ‘MINE’ the movie, and its outreach efforts nationwide. And yes, dogs can stay for the movie too!**

Date: Friday, August 14th 2009
Time: 6.30pm-9.30pm (doors open 6:30 pm, movie starts @ 8:00 pm)
Location: Uptown Body & Fender, 401 26th St. Oakland, CA 94612. (!!! NEW LOCATION !!!)

Tickets must be purchased in advance, so don’t miss out, buy your ticket today!

Cape Cod’s first pet pantry, For The Love Of A Pet, is holding their third fundraiser at CJ’s Ranch (1415 Osterville W. Barnstable Road, Marston Mills). The event will be Sunday, August 9th, from 10:00 AM until 5:30 PM.

The day will include food, karaoke contests, pony rides, country line dancing lessons and demonstrations by CJ’s Ranch Drill Team. There will also be raffles and games featuring great prizes!!

Admission is $10.00 a person which also includes a raffle ticket. Children under 12 free with a can or bag of pet food. Pet food donations are greatly appreciated. All proceeds will go directly to For The Love Of A Pet, Inc.

For The Love Of A Pet, Inc., is pet food pantry established to provide food, supplies, education and support to pet owners who are experiencing financial challenges.

Their mission is to keep and maintain pets in a healthy home environment. For further information, please contact Carol Eklund at (508) 472-9175 or visit For The Love Of A Pet.

If you’re a baseball fan there’s a fun event not to be missed at an upcoming Gwinnett Braves baseball game to benefit Happy Tails.

Happy Tails Pet Therapy is an organization that provides animal-assisted therapy and animal-assisted activity visits, for healthcare facilities, social agencies and special-needs programs in the metro Atlanta community.

The Gwinnett Braves will have some new volunteers on hand to help fetch foul balls on Friday, August 14th as Happy Tails volunteers and their canine companions team up to raise money for the non-profit pet assisted therapy organization.

At the game 50/50 raffle tickets will be sold, 50% of the money raised from raffle ticket sales goes to a lucky fan at that night’s game. The remaining 50% is divided evenly between the Gwinnett Braves (for their charity) and the evening’s participating organization…Happy Tails in our case!

It’s the dog days of summer, so come on out and enjoy a ball game and pitch in to help out Atlanta’s furriest friends. Gates open at 5:30 and the game starts at 7:00. See you there!

To get parking information and directions to the stadium please click here.

* Rocco at the old ball game.

Come laugh, eat, drink and have a whole lot of fun.  Enjoy four seasoned comics from Live Comedy Atlanta helping Happy Tails empower pets to help people.

Gourmet food and drinks are available, so come thirsty and bring your appetite. Also bring all your dog loving friends to help support this worthy cause.

Comedy Night at Nancy G’s

Saturday, August 1st, 8-9:30pm

This intimate venue holds 40 guests so contact Michelle Mark via email to reserve your seats today. $15/pp in advance or $20/pp at door.

Doors open at 7pm. Nancy G’s is located at 4920 Roswell Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30342. Content is PG-13

Thanks,

Michelle

There’s a fun event going on tomorrow night to help raise money for the Meriden Humane Society. Join in a  night of laughs at the Night of Comedy show in Meriden, CT.

The Meriden Humane Society and RC Comedy Productions present a night of comedy on Saturday July 18th at 8:30pm.

Headlining the show is national touring act Linda Belt. Belt has recently performed in the Boston and Detroit comedy festivals and is a crowd favorite everywhere she plays. Also on the bill is Meriden native and regional favorite Rick Carino, the very hilarious Andy Paquette and Dicky C.

There will also be a raffle and donations for the raffle are always happily accepted. Proceeds from the show will go to the Meriden shelter. The shelter is a not for profit no kill animal shelter. It is a privately run organization and is supported solely on donations from the public.

The show will be at Ryders On Main located at 467 West Main St in Meriden, CT. Tickets are $15 and are available at the Meriden Humane Society and at Ryders on Main. Box Office: 203-237-1575.

Over the weekend the 4th annual Lowes Dogs Surfing Competition was held to raise money for the Modest Needs Foundation.

The goal of Modest Needs is to prevent self-sufficient people and families from entering the cycle of poverty from one bad setback, to help working people with unaffordable work-related expenses and to strengthen small non-profits by providing them an opportunity to get grants to further their work in their communities.

Over 60 surfin’ dogs and their humans entered the competition, fun was had by all. The event was broken down for small and large dogs. There was also a competition for tandem surfing. The top prize was a getaway at Loews Coronado Bay Resort, not too shabby.

A favorite in the Large Dog category shows off his style in this video. Though he didn’t win, he did hang ten (or, more accurately, 18) very tenaciously, as any Bulldog should.

Watch some of the pups in action.

* Pic from the Lowes Surfing Competition blogspot.

Yesterday I did a post on the upcoming Bark For Life event, a fundraiser to help fight human and animal cancers. When I was looking for a picture to use I searched on Dogster, that’s how I found Meatball.

Meatball is a Dogster member and is in the fight of his life after recently being diagnosed with cancer. He has a cancerous bone tumor, just beneath the surface on his face, close to his eye. Meaty is in otherwise great health and is a good candidate for surgery.

The treatment isn’t going to be easy and the cost for Meaty’s surgery and aftercare is very expensive, estimated to be around $5,000. His pup pals got together to have a fundraising auction, they have lots of great donated items to win.

If you would like to make a donation or put in a bid on one of the cool auction items go to his site at Meatball The Boxer-Fighting against Canine bone cancer.

Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m off to go put in a bid on a cute picture frame Lisa has her eye on.