Strut Your Mutt

The Marquette County Humane Society's Second Annual "Strut Your Mutt" Benefit Walk for Homeless Animals was held Saturday, September 8th 2007 at the Mattson Lower Harbor Park.  It  was a huge success thanks to the outstanding support from our wonderful community.  Over 220 dogs and their people pals enjoyed a sunny morning of socializing, food, contests, games, exercise and "dog-gone" fun!

The power and compassion of our community raised over $16,000 for the shelter!  All the money raised went towards helping sheltered pets find new loving homes.

A Heartfelt Thank You from all of us and the shelter pets!

100's of pictures were taken! We hope you enjoy them! So many happy people and happy dogs!

Check out the Pictures

MCHS would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for their generosity and support of this event:

Media Sponsors:

WLUCTV6 & Vicky Crystal for being our fantastic MC!
The Action Shopper, Great Lakes Radio and FOX103.3WFXD The Rodeo with Doc radio program, the local radio stations for PSA's, Marquette Monthly , Scot Fure of Video Concepts & Aaron McGrath
Danielson Family (Deb's Dog), Mikki Danielson
Club Canine Dog Training & Spa (Candy Neusser) for dog obedience demo's
Jim's Music, Mqt. (for our sound system)
Kong Company, Planetdog.com, Greenies Company (biscuits), DogPoopBags.com

Bakery goodies: Babycakes Muffin Company, Cookie Cutters, Third Street Bagel, Village Cafe, Huron Mountain Bakery

Raffle sponsors: American of Marquette, 'Made Arrangements'(owner Laura Aldridge), Kuranda Dog Bed Company, Greenies Company.

Kyle Miller from the Invisible Fence Company for sponsoring our "Guess the Dog Biscuits" contest and prizes (and for volunteering).
Lynn Andronis (dog bandanas)
Ann & Garrett Brownell-frisbees, supplies & prizes.
Family Dollar, Mares-Z-Doats, Gander Mountain, Charter Communications (magnetic dog frames) PetsIncredible for free Dog /Cat DVDs
Starbucks Coffee House Jandron's II (keychains)
Richmond Twp. (use of coffeepot)
Lynne Reynolds and her hot dog vendor service for taking her time to set up and have her food service available for our Strut Your Mutt attendees.
Greta Berg of Companybgraphics for logo design.

We also want to give BIG THANK YOU to our hardworking, caring volunteers, our super, dedicated staff and especially all the wonderful participants, pledge raisers and donors!

Prizes were awarded to the top pledge raisers in each category (pledge money listed as of collected by September 8th event day)

Individual: 1st place - Marla Buckmaster raising an outstanding $1012; 2nd place – Amanda Swanson with a great $335; 3rd place – Jackie Pauls with $271

Team: Team Andronis – Lorri Andronis, Paul Andronis, Margaret Jasich, & Karlyn Rapport raising a super grand total of $1712.

Special Recognition goes to the team of Precious Paws – Jody Cody, Katlin Bolm, Taylor Racine, and Nick Racine. They raised an astonishing $1585 by working very hard and collecting 125 individual pledges! Great Job!

MCHS would like to recognize a few other outstanding pledge raisers who raised $100 or more (again pledge money listed as of collected by September 8th)...

Teams: Jeane Rivard and team “Klingman’s Canine’s” raising a super $324; Wendy Perry and team “North Camp Critters” $200; Karen Brin and team “The Boys” $174; Anne, Spencer, Levi Giroux, Cheryl Vukelich of team “The Mack Pack $150; Erika, Elizabeth, Jacob Jandreau of team The Jandreau Family raised $146.61 and Gail Rasanen and team “Jesse and the Beardogs” $113.30.

Individual's: Ann Brownell (co-chair) $330; Emily Johnson $255, Mary Ellen Powers $255; Christopher Wommer $204; Fran Holland & Lydia Kurin $200; Karen Sundell $190; Linda St. Aubin $185; Brian Perry $165; Laura Aldridge $163; Gary & Llewanne Salo $163; Stephanie Reichel $156; Trudy Manninen & Luke Gustufson $150; Wendy Wood $150; Kathi Fosburg $135; Diane Brady $125; Sharon Farrell $125; John LaJennesse $125; Anna, Troy, Erik, & Eddie Anderson $120; Rita Laiho $120; Tanya Savage $119; Jill Simma $116; Rachel Sundblad $115; Pat Frenn and Zoey Brian $115; Maggie Haupt $112; Patti Blemberg $110; Heather Oliver $110, Paul Simms $105; and the following individuals raised $100 each: Theresa Besander, Chris Corkin, Kathy Hinkens, RaeAnne Hinkens, Monika Jenczala, Reva Laituri, Donna Laine & Bill Reid.

Thank you to all whether you registered alone and/or raised any and all pledges. Outstanding work done by every single person who raised pledges and/or donated pledges for our event!

Prizes Donated by:

American of Marquette, Lynn Andronis, Ann & Garrett Brownell, Big Boy Restaurant, Border Grill, Country Village of Ishpeming, Dayna Kennedy, Deb's Dog of the Month Program (Mikki Danielson), Dr. Foster & Smith, Family Video, Frosty Paws Treats for Dogs (Purina), Getz's Department Store, The Lupine Collar Company, PlanetDog.com, PetGuys.com, Petsmart, Quiznos Subs, Sandy Helt, Tuormina's Pizza, Togo's Sub Shop, The Coffee Cup, WNMU TV13 Partner's Premiums.

Without the support of our community the Marquette County Humane Society would not be able to do all it does for our homeless animals who cannot speak for themselves.

“Deb’s Dog of the Month” Program Honored at MCHS “Strut Your Mutt” Event

The MCHS "Strut Your Mutt" Event honored a very special MCHS program; the "Deb's Dog of the Month" Program and we were very happy to have Deb's sister, Mikki Danielson as our special guest. The "Deb's Dog of the Month" is a program established for MCHS by the family of Deb Danielson in her memory. The "Deb's Dog of the Month" Program donated all the "Strut Your Mutt" dog toy prizes for our event. Mikki cut the start ribbon and walked Dodge, the September "Deb's Dog" who was one of the adoptable dogs brought to the walk in hopes to get these wonderful dogs into loving homes. Good News! All six homeless dogs were adopted that following week! Read more about the "Deb's Dog of the Month" Program at this link.