Professional Bull Riders Volunteer At Arlington Animal Services

From the City of Arlington:

February 22, 2020

Professional Bull Riders Volunteer at Arlington Animal Services, Donate $2,000 on Behalf of PBRBy Arlington Animal ServicesPosted on Friday, February 21, 2020

Professional bull riders participating in the 2020 PBR Global Cup USA recently volunteered at Arlington Animal Services and presented at $2,000 donation to the city on behalf of PBR.

Arlington was one of four Dallas-Fort Worth locations selected for a day of service as part of PBR’s Be Cowboy initiative. On Feb. 14, bull riders from the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico dispersed throughout the greater DFW area, visiting animal shelters and children’s hospitals.

Arlington Animal Services was extremely excited about being one of the stops! Matt Triplett (Team USA Eagles), Claudio Montanha Jr., Kaique Pacheco, Dener Barbosa (Team Brazil), Jared Parsonage, Dakota Buttar (Team Canada), Brady Fielder and Aaron Kleier (Team Australia) spent two hours helping socialize the adoptable animals and learning about Arlington’s shelter.

At each stop, the riders also presented each organization with a $2,000 donation on behalf of the PBR. The donation to Arlington Animal Services will help with the efforts to raise money to build the K9 Memorial Monument dedicated to working dogs, whose deeds and sacrifices will always be remembered.

“That’s huge, to be able to go to an organization that’s going to use it for animals that come here, and just all-in-all help support dogs that get left or basically abandoned,” Team USA Eagles Matt Triplett said. “So money that can go to that, it’s a huge honor to be able to do something like that.”

For more information about Arlington’s planned K9 Memorial Monument or to make a donation, please visit the site: https://arlingtonwebstore.com/CanineMonumentDonations.aspx.

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