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Activity
Ideas:
1. Create an adoption DOG-a-thon for or with your local shelter or
rescue to walk shelter dogs with "Adopt Me" bandanas which can help get
more dogs exposure and thus, a forever home!
2. Open up your place of business or ask a popular business in town if
they would like to incorporate a dog party for after your walk.
3. Organize a short, easy walk for a senior citizen’s center and look for
volunteers to help walk the senior’s dogs for them if they’re in a
wheelchair or have any disability.
4. Approach your local health club to host a 5 mile DOG-a-thon and
after-party. Make sure to have plenty of water for the dogs along the
route.
5. Organize a walk for your child’s school so they can get some exercise
and show off their dog to their friends. If the school isn’t supportive
about doing this during school hours, organize it for after school.
Prepare some fun, dog themed goodie bags to give to the children after the
walk.
6. Costumes are always fun! You could end your “costumed” walk in a local
park and have a costume contest with fun prizes. You could offer 1st, 2nd
and 3rd place with runner ups. Ask your local businesses to donate
products and services for the winners.
7. Ask friends and family to personally sponsor your walk and donate the
funds to your local shelter. How about a family get-together with everyone
who has a dog?
8. Ask your local Boy Scouts and/or Girl Scouts to arrange a walk and
raise money for your local shelter.
9. Get a group of friends together to organize a walk for the shelter dogs
in your community – they will love you for it!
10. Organize a doggie treasure hunt around a large park. Get all your
local dog businesses to donate products and services to the winning doggie
basket.
11. Approach your public library about hosting a walk for children and
then coming back to the library with their dogs to hear a dog related
story or see a dog related puppet show.
12. Host a dog themed party for both kids and adults which starts with a ½
mile walk, followed by fun, fun, fun! You could have snacks and cake for
the kids and adults and a doggie cake for the dogs! Bibs optional.
***A great way to support your local shelter is to have them on site with
adoptable pets and if someone can’t adopt - ask that they donate $5 or
more.
*** If you’ll have food at your event, to keep the dogs safe, please avoid
toxic foods such as chocolate, almonds, raisins, grapes, currants, avocado
and macadamia nuts.
Keep in mind that you can decide to do one of these activities a day for a
week, or organize one big event to kick off the week. You don’t have to do
a major activity every day - but for your health and the health of your
dog - you do need to walk every day…even if it’s by yourself! Remember, a
tired dog…is a good dog!
NOTICE: For any press releases, articles, newspaper/internet ads,
we ask that you include
the following:
"Celebrity Pet Lifestyle Expert and Animal Behaviorist
Colleen Paige created this day to help promote the health of both people
and their pets and to prevent dogs from being surrendered to the shelter
due to behavioral problems caused by lack of exercise".
Other October Pet Holidays -
National Cat Day/October 29th
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