Pet Walk 2010 Tempe Town Lake

Last Sunday was the annual PetSmart Pet Walk for PetSmart Charities.

We got to the Pet Walk an hour before things started hopping!

This is Dad, Hootie & me at the entrance.

Here is Colin, from our Dales & Friends Group,

with his and Donna's Dales, Lucy & Charlie.
More Airedales from our Dales & Friends Meetup group.

Here we are checking out one of the watering stations.

And another buddy from Dales & Friends. By the way, over half of the dogs from our group were adopted from the SouthWest Airedale Terrier Rescue (SWATR).

This is Donna with Charlie, manning the booth for SWATR.

Mommy with us in front of the SWATR stand.

What do you suppose Mommy is doing here??

This is the Bowzer Beer stand. Good stuff!

Here is Hootie saying hi to a 10 year old Welshie names Lala. She growled at him. hehe.

Ooooo this is the start of the 1 mile walk. That's what we did.

Well what do ya know?

There was a WFT at the start of the race who gave Hootie a good luck smooch!

The line of people & pooches seemed to stretch forever.

Another view of the hooman and poochie 1 mile walk.

Yes, Hootie had to leave plenty of pee-mail.

It was such a beautiful day for a walk.

See Dad & me? The line split in two so we took the low road

and Mommy & Hoots took the high road.

Here are some of the Dales & Friends stragglers!

We were on our way back when they were just starting.

More pics of the Dales & Friends.

We had to check out the water's edge.

Kinda murky, but it's fed by a canal, so what did ya expect?!

The guy leaning over is Eddie and he really likes Hootie.

So many Dales. Who is who??

The little Welshie on the left is Maxwell.

He's the same age as Hootie, but he weighs about 10# less.

Hootie is such a substantial guy!!

Here's a better pic so you can see the difference in their size.

This guy is an Irish Terrier that we just met on Sunday.

Is he the McGillinator?

Oops, no he doesn't smell like McGillicutty!

Lookie, I love to do high 5 for treats.

Hey, you're supposed to give me 5 too lady!! Well, as long as you give me a treat you can slide on the high 5.

This big Dane was so friendly. I'll post a collage of all the different breeds of pooches on a future post.

Here's Mom and the Hootster.







Did you notice our folks have on matching shirts? CORNY!! At least it was easier to not get them lost. hehe.

Well, that's it for now. We had a lovely time at the PetWalk again this year and hope to attend next year. "God willing and the canal don't rise." Sure hope you all have a great weekend!

Smooches,

Baby Rocket Dog