It was a beautiful day.
Last weekend more than 600 East Tennesseans gathered to celebrate all things dog — and to raise $48,000 to combat canine cancer. Cancer, you see, is the number one killer of all dogs over the age of 2.
The K9 Walk Against Cancer was last Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Cove at Concord Park. It was organized by the Morris Animal Foundation and one of Moxley Carmichael’s clients, PetSafe, was a major sponsor. Because we at Moxley Carmichael are dog lovers ourselves, we formed a team, made special t-shirts for ourselves and our dogs, and headed to the Cove to walk in honor of all the adoptable pets at Young-Williams Animal Center, another of our favorite clients.
It was fun! If you would like to contribute to this great cause, donations are still being accepted for a limited time. Click here for more information.
It was a mob scene at the Cove at Concord Park! But everyone was very well-behaved.
Razz is in the care of the Small Breed Rescue of East Tennessee. He is a 2-year-old pomeranian who was rescued from a puppy mill a few weeks ago. He is in the lap of volunteer Cherie Long.
Over at the Pit Bull Rescue, we met 10-year-old Thor. The survivor of two kinds of cancer, he is a HABIT dog and visits the sick and elderly. His owner, Lisa Johnson, is at left. Jody Robertson is at right.
Here are two more HABIT dogs, Raven, left, and Leo. HABIT stands for Human Animal Bond in Tennessee.
These folks are from Scripps Networks Interactive.
This dog is named Doodle. She is a pit bull who helps train foster puppies. She is with Ken Allyn.
Here is part of the Moxley Carmichael team. From left: Shaun Fulco holding Bella, Richard Ford, Dawn Ford, Scott Bird, Alan Carmichael and Amanda Shell. Dawn and Richard don't work at MoxCar; but they came to lend support.
Moxley Carmichael graphic designer Erica Beck with Bentley, left, and Maya. Erica designed our great t-shirts -- for humans and dogs!
The front of our shirts feature human and dog footprints.
Here's the back!
Lauren Christ of Moxley Carmichael and her dog, Chloe, whom she adopted from Young-Williams. Lauren was our team leader.
Lauren's boyfriend, John Miller, with Pez, her other dog, also from Young-Williams.
Shaun and Bella. Two other Moxley Carmichael team members also were there: Amy Foster and Desiree Krichbaum.
Rufus is the mascot of the UT Vet School. They had the top team, raising more than $8,000! Congrats!
WBIR's anchor John Becker is a dog lover. He welcomed everyone and made a few announcements.
Randy Boyd, CEO of PetSafe, pumps up the crowd.
Randy Boyd said he attended an industry conference a while back and heard someone put down Tennessee as one of the worst states in the country in terms of how animals are treated. “In the animal world, you choose between fight and flight,” Boyd said. “When I heard that remark, I decided to fight.” He is fighting to make Knoxville the most pet-friendly community in America. And he is succeeding. Click here for a story about Knoxville being named the dog-friendliest city in the Southeast.
This is Spanky, Boyd's dog.
Mary Pom Claiborne and John Bradley with Rufus, at left, and Gracie.
Ryan and Jen Roth with Tinny, left, and Hayley
We were all given little bottles of bubble liquid and asked to blow bubbles in memory of pets we had lost. Here's Alan doing that in memory of Casper and Big Boy.
Richard has had some great dogs.
The one-mile walk was fun!
This dog had shoes on his front paws!
This little guy was tired. Shawn Ballard holds Miguel.
This was, of course, inevitable!
What a great day! Bella slept the entire ride home and most of the evening. She was so excited she didn’t know which way to go first!
The Moxley Carmichel T Shirt is wonderful!
Thanks, Gina!
Shaun: Bella was an angel during the walk. What a sweetie.
I loved this post! How sweet!
That was a nice article and it was a Great day! Not only will the money help find cures for cancer in dogs, it will help defeat human cancers as well especially in children as their cancers tend to be similar to that of dogs or at least that is what I’ve heard. We’re all in this together. Thanks for the nice pic of my dog Miguel with my hubby!
Thanks, Jenny! Ann, your little Miguel was adorable! I agree with you about how important this cause is.
I hate that I missed this – LB would have loved it! Let me know if they hold it again.
I love having opportunities to get the dogs out for some socialization, and this was an especially meaningful event for us to participate in.
Thanks to Moxley Carmichael for supporting such a wonderful cause. I’m very proud and grateful to be part of the team — and so were Chloe and Pez!
Hey, Katie: You are right! LB would have loved it. And I didn’t see any other dogs like her at the event. She’s got to come next year!
Lauren: Thanks so much for getting us involved in this and leading our team. It was a blast.
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