I know the Mighty Texas Dog Walk happened a month ago and I’m behind on my blog post (what else is new) but I wanted to share the cute pics I captured from the event and tell you about all the fun we had!
JenniFurrr’s Pet Services was a co-sponsor for this year’s Mighty Texas Dog Walk that took place April 17th and we were so proud to be a part of this great event! So, we planned well and were ready to rock and roll and the damn weather report was a bummer- rain, rain, and more rain! All week we struggled with grey skies and rain and were expecting to get soaked during the walk. So we all crossed our fingers and paws and did our best Non-Rain dance the night before the walk to keep things dry. Then the morning of the event- like 6:30 am when the JPS team arrived at the 1st street bridge to set up shop we got drizzled on but I remained hopeful!! I am the rock of this organization so I had to stay perking and strong for the team!! As the sun started to rise the grey skies remained and the wetness went away- yeah!! As the walkers and their furry friends started to arrive on the bridge and line up for the walk all was great with mother nature (I think some of my old dog buddies up in heaven were looking out for us!)
Our Pink booth standing proud!
Our green banner
The prettiest booth at the MTDW!
So, now that the weather wasn’t a hot topic we carried on with our mission to spread the Furrr Love and put a blue JPS bandana around the neck of every pup participating in the MTDW- and so we did, I think we dressed about 500 pups that day. Wow!
JPS Bandanas!
Baby in a Bandana
Erica dressing up a pup!
We did some other fun stuff at our pretty pink booth too- we handed out cookies to hungry pups, gave out our flyers, gave out some belly rubs and the coolest thing we did was have a “Guess what’s in the poop” contest! All the guessers entered for a chance to win a cool JPS goodie bag full of treats and coupons to local vendors and some neato JPS doggie swag. I think it was one of the coolest prises up for grabs during the walk- well besides the car that was being offered across the bridge (JPS can’t compete with that!)
JPS Swag Bag!!
The JPS crew said hi to a ton of cool pups and got to meet the neat people that brought them to the walk. I personally had a blast! I’m a dog freak so seeing all those little furry butts dressed up and wearing their happy faces just made my day! JPS had a few walkers participate in the walk too- we want to raise money for the Texas Hearing and Service Dogs too! Our walkers chatted with other folks walking their pups and reported back to me all the fun stuff that happened at the water stations and the cool dogs they met since I had to stay back at the booth and hold the fort down.
Gorgeous Great Danes
Our client Mishka and his dad Dmitry hanging out at the booth!
Longhorn Fan!
My boy Puck and our client Seiko- they're in love!
Jeff and Brandon walked with Puck and Seiko- Real men were Pink!
Our walker Zoe and her family escorted Echo
Our clients Hula and Pauli walked with their moms Keely and Dannah
So, by the end of the walk things were going great but as the last few stragglers crossed the finish line and strolled down the bridge to grab some goodies from the vendor booths the skies opened up and the nastiest rain storm ever in history of dog walk rain storms happened right on top of the 1st street bridge! We scurried to tear down our booth and tried to keep our furr dry- with no luck. My cute green rain coat didn’t work with this kind of wicked rain- I was soaked to the bone! I would’ve probably been drier if I had just jumped into Lady Bird Lake ; ) And I have to tell ya the rain was actually kind of refreshing crazy as that sounds… I had worked so hard to prep for the event and was working on a teenie bit of sleep that it was just too perfect how the rain held off for the entire walk and then once it did rain it was the biggest ugliest storm ever!
So, we finally got our soggy butts in our cars and were happy we lived to tell about our adventure : )
I’m so glad we got to participate in such a history making cool-ass Austin event and I can’t wait for next year’s Mighty Texas Dog Walk!
Erica and Myself (Furrr)
