Health & Fitness
Give Pets a "Home Field" Advantage
This May HAWS is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Pet Walkathon - a fundraising walk and day-long festival for pets and their people, all in support of the animals and programs of HAWS.
At HAWS we are celebrating a major milestone. Our Pet Walkathon is in its 30th Year!
On the first Saturday of May – this year it’s May 4th – hundreds of pet lovers ‘high-tail-it’ to Sussex Village Park for a day-long festival for pets and their people, in support of HAWS, the animals we care for and the programs/services we provide to the community.
This year’s theme is “Give Pets a Home Field Advantage.” To us that means making sure adoptable pets find forever loving homes, and that our community and neighbors all have the tools they need for successful owner-pet relationship.
So, what does your Walkathon donation do for HAWS? Your donation helps "Load
the Bases" for HAWS, because:
• $10 can provide vaccinations and heartworm or feline leukemia testing for an
adoptable pet
• $25 ensures on-call assistance from our Animal Rescue Team for lost pets
• $50 can spay or neuter a pet
• $100 helps feed an entire shelter ward!
Imagine what $250, $500, or more can do…
In the spirit of Spring Training now culminating in Opening Day, we think everyone should form a HAWS Walkathon Team, to walk and fundraise as a group. You will have the opportunity to promote your business or group, support your fave local shelter and receive fun goodies like the official 2013 Walk T-shirt, personalized team I.D., special raffle drawings, recognition on hawspets.org
and in our Tattle Tails print newsletter and more.
The best part? All money collected for HAWS’ annual Pet Walkathon goes directly
to the animals and HAWS’ programs…AND donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE!
So register your team today in the Canine, Feline or Small Critter Division of
HAWS’ Baseball League. Get an assist with your fundraising by creating an online
personalized fundraising webpage, and hit a home run for the pets of our
community!
By the way – our $10K matching grant challenge is going strong! Help save lives by supporting our Behavior Department and their work to rehabilitate dogs!
Only 5 more weeks to give…
