This past Tuesday November 11, Pet Pack had a fundraiser put on by a Portland artist, Mike Bennett and a pet supply store called The Filling Station. Everything happened very fast, it was all decided on and put together within one week. And the event was promoted on social media and even the local news. Mike Bennett named the fundraiser event "The World's Longest Dachshund". And invited people to come and participate to paint a dachshund on the side of his art studio. A dog rescue foster organization called One Tail At A Time PDX were there as well. Save ALL the animals! It was a beautiful sunny day, a lot of people showed up and it was a great community event. There were goats and a therapy animal lama named Caesar and a guy typing up poems on a typewriter. And people's kindness and generosity went through the roof.....I could not believe it but we got close to 6K in donations in four hours!!!
AND we got bags of dog and cat kibble and canned food AND human food donations. I gave a passerby that looked as they maybe could use some human food a full bag of food and we gave away some dog and cat food on the spot to people that asked. The rest of the human food (we got a lot) was taken to a local food bank and the animal food was taken to our storage location. Thank You amazing people of Portland! Here are pictures from the event in no particular order......
www.otatpdx.org
We got cash donations and QR code donations.
Somebody brought their coffee making stuff from home. Of course I got a coffee!
And I got a poem. By The Traveling Typist. What a nice thing to do!
https://pickathon.com/artist/the-traveling-typist/
Caesar the lama.
Cuties! I want goats!
Great message - Portland Is What We Make It. And for the record, I love Portland.
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