Walk for Animals

Even as real celebrities battle those pesky cameramen on the streets and in courts for intruding on their lives and trading on their images, some regular folks, from parents hosting teen birthday parties to Gen Xers out on the town, have decided that the attention could be fun--and worth paying up to $1,500 for. Cowher launched Celeb 4 A Day in Austin in November and is expanding to Los Angeles this month and San Francisco in February. There are similar companies, like Private Paparazzi in San Diego and Personal Paparazzi in Britain, and wannabe big shots in other places have taken matters into their own hands, hiring freelance photographers to trail them.

Gag.  Sometimes I just have to shake my head at our celebrity-obsessed culture.  Yet another reason so many of us prefer the company of animals to that of other people.

For all my fellow animal lovers, this is your first notice about the Animal Humane Society's Walk for Animals.  It'll be on May 3rd this year in both St. Paul and Minneapolis, and I'm actually going to try to make it, even if I have to borrow one of Sarah's dogs.  I donate cash bi-monthly to the AHS (it is where I got my beloved Felicia, after all) because they always, always need it.  Homeless cats flood the AHS shelters in the spring and summer months, to the tune of about 2,000 per month.  And tragically, 71 percent of all cats surrendered to shelters across the country are euthanized.

Do what you can.  Do it for the kitties.  (And puppies!)

Comments

[Sarah Buckley]

You are welcome to walk the bad dog Burt around... he has a new desire to kill all other animals on leashes..I think he thinks of it as a mercy killing. He finds leashes distasteful. His desire to run away makes them a constant in his dog life. He is going back to school at TCOTC starting in April so maybe we can work out the kinks in his walking issues so you can strut for a great cause. See you on Tuesday:)

[Alexis]

Oh, that Burt. I suppose Lulu's joints aren't up to that kind of walk.