This year Relay For Life is holding the first annual Wake County "Walk-n-Wag." It's basically your typical Relay For Life fundraiser except you and your pal raise money together Then on Halloween morning you do a 1 mile walk with all the participants and their doggies.

Here's the link to the website where you register ($20 for you and your dog):

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/CommunityFundraisingPages/CFPFY09SouthAtlantic?pg=entry&fr_id=25006

You get a t-shirt for yourself and a bandana for your dog when you register. As with the normal RFL fundraising, you have your personal page and set a goal for yourself, etc.

I hope some of yall decide to sign up for it.. It's a great cause. Gambit and I will be there They're also holding a costume contest the day of.




[Edited on September 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM. Reason : picture]

9/2/2009 1:15:07 PM

Dog lovers + Halloween =




Sounds like a good cause though.

One question, do all the funds go to treat cancer in humans, or does any of it go towards research towards treating cancer in dogs & pets?

[Edited on September 2, 2009 at 1:20 PM. Reason : .]

9/2/2009 1:20:09 PM

haha!! my pup is a pit bull so I'm thinking of making him into a kissing booth I was going to get a Michael Vick jersey but seeing as that's an extremely bad joke, probably not the best for RFL

I am pretty positive it's just for human cancer. I think dogs were brought into it because a lot of owners wanted to bring their dogs to the events but they're not allowed...

9/2/2009 1:27:43 PM

Weeeeeeeee yay! I wanna do this... it will be good because I will be running the half marathon the next day :-D

Hmmm I'll lok into this... Jaeda and Jinzo would love to dress up :-) Jaeda will be a MONSTER and she doesn't even need a costume... Or perhaps a water sprinkler

9/2/2009 1:51:35 PM

why do you people put your animals through all this bullshit?

9/2/2009 4:36:03 PM

All what bullshit?

I don't see anything wrong with taking my doggy for a walk with other doggies

9/2/2009 5:20:18 PM

It would take me about 4 hours to get my dog to walk a mile.


walk a couple steps...sniff for five minutes...couple steps..sniff..couple steps...sniff

9/2/2009 5:48:26 PM

Cool idea! Do you think this will become a regular thing? I know it says first annual but you never know if that means there will be a second annual

9/2/2009 6:22:06 PM

Yeah, I definitely think it will. They have quite a bit of participants already and I know a lot of people always want to take their dogs to the spring event.

9/2/2009 6:34:51 PM

whats a dog version of this costume?



[Edited on September 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM. Reason : premature]

9/2/2009 8:47:21 PM

bttt

9/9/2009 2:54:30 PM

I seriously have thought about doing this for my little weiner dog & I. It'd be sooo fun. He loves his bandanas

9/9/2009 3:55:38 PM

This would be awesome for Cotton! (And maybe Flex if his obedience is going good by then!)

Samwise: Get a stuffed Football player, make a Vick jersey for it, and have it dragging behind your dog!

I will do this with Flex (Pit Bull) if you don't!

9/10/2009 1:17:43 PM

^ I love that idea! I might just use it... and even if I do use it, you should do it too, it would probably be even better to have multiple pits wearing it

9/10/2009 1:44:47 PM

I'm in for this.

One of my best friends died just two weeks ago after a three-year fight with osteosarcoma. I'm sure this is the first of many things we'll do for him.

Here's our team page for him:

http://main.acsevents.org/goto/vivaladuck

Please help us if you can!

9/17/2009 2:22:05 PM

this sounds pretty fun. anyone know if there's prizes for the contests? i'm pretty sure my dog will chew off any costume i manage to put on him.

9/18/2009 7:44:46 PM

I think there is a prize for the costume contest. Relay is pretty good about getting people involved and rewarding them.. This year at the normal RFL they gave away gift baskets as part of a raffle

9/22/2009 8:45:05 AM

Bump... it's only a week and 1 day away

I got my dog an angel costume and I'm pretty sure he will hate me forever

10/23/2009 10:22:23 AM

My dog isn't crazy about any costumes that involve head gear. She doesn't like that stuff.

The good news is the team I talked about up a few posts up met our goal! We've raised $1,000 so far! WOOHOO!!



[Edited on October 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM. Reason : about]

10/23/2009 11:14:23 AM

That's great!! I'm at $285, my goal was $300.. couldn't get enough people for a team but our team earlier this year raised over $3,500 so I guess it's ok!

Gambit just looked at me like "you have got to be fucking kidding me" when I put the halo on his ears and that shit was gone in 0.0005 seconds

[Edited on October 23, 2009 at 1:27 PM. Reason : whoops wrong goal]

10/23/2009 1:24:25 PM

Quote :

"I got my dog an angel costume and I'm pretty sure he will hate me forever "

Haha. My miniature Dachshund, Walter, has a hotdog costume and he isn't exactly a fan of it either! The velcro part that attaches near his belly got caught up on his weiner once and he squealed. Poor thing. LOL

10/23/2009 2:39:45 PM

i tried the banana costume from target but it didn't fit. the hat looked adorably funny though. ordered my dog a #17 wolfpack jersey. they assured me it would arrive in time let's just hope he doesn't chew it up while wearing it.

10/23/2009 7:23:28 PM

If you see a girl dressed as a panda with a brindle angel, say hey!

10/29/2009 11:18:24 AM

my weiner dogs aren't big fans of costumes but they make due. My mom has superman and batman capes for them this year

10/29/2009 11:39:31 AM

Tomorrow!

10/30/2009 10:20:59 AM

Less Bark, More Wag.

10/30/2009 10:44:36 AM

did anyone else think this could have been a lot better? i think they should have had one or two contests before the walk and then a couple afterward. the vendors/sponsors should have stuck around a lot longer too. i also registered early last month and put in that I wore an adult small and ended up with a 2XL t-shirt

10/31/2009 5:46:19 PM

damn, i wish i would have seen this yesterday

11/1/2009 12:49:49 PM