Nuts for Mutts

Nuts for Mutts - The Walk & Festival 2010, Sunday, April 18 in Calabasas, Features Project Dogway, Hollywood Pet Tricks & More!
By Staff Writer

Nuts for Mutts - The Walk & Festival is set for Sunday, April 18, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center in Calabasas. Benefiting animal rescue New Leash on Life, the Calabasas Rotary and the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center, Nuts for Mutts - The Walk & Festival has added several new post-walk attractions for 2010.

This fun-filled family fundraiser, now in its sixth year, as always will feature a 5K walk-a-thon, for the first time through the crystal clear rolling hills of Calabasas. Route highlights will include "pawzstations" with plenty of water, food and fun for pets of all kinds and their human companions. To register and start signing up your walk sponsors, visit www.nutsformutts.org or call 818-880-2993.

But you don't have to take part in the walk - or own a dog, for that matter - to attend and enjoy this rollicking event.

The Nuts for Mutts Festival will feature live music, celebrity appearances, great food, a Beer Garden presented by the Calabasas Chamber of Commerce, the Kid's Fun Zone, pet adoption, a silent auction and over 40 vendors. Celebrity judges will include Joel David Moore (Avatar), Mark Thompson (Fox 11 News), Tia Maria Torres (Animal Planet's Pit Bulls and Parolees) Annie Wersching (FOX TVs 24) and more.

Two new special competitions require advance registration via the Nuts for Mutts website, www.nutsformutts.org.

Are you the top canine fashion designer? Then by all means, sign up for Project Dogway! Nuts for Mutts attendees will applaud carefully coiffed canines strutting their stuff in custom creations whipped up by their gifted humans. Awards will be offered for top designers in categories such as Evening, Sport, Everyday Casual, Resort and Couture.

Does your pet have what it takes to be a Hollywood star? Sign up for Hollywood Pet Tricks and let industry professionals be the judge as you show off your pet's special talent.

Nuts for Mutts - The Walk & Festival 2010 media sponsors are KTTV FOX 11, KCOP My13, KABC-AM 790 and 95.5 KLOS-FM. Admission to the Nuts for Mutts Festival is free. The Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center is located at 27040 Malibu Hills Road, Calabasas.

About New Leash on Life: New Leash on Life, www.newleash.org, founded in 1997, has been responsible for the spaying and neutering of thousands of pets and the rescuing and placement of over 3,000 dogs. In addition, they provide free educational seminars at local shelters and schools, set shelter rescue priorities on "hard to place" animals requiring medical or special care, founded the Lend A Paw Program which rescues dogs from shelters, rehabilitates them and transforms them into Assistance and Therapy dogs, founded the P.E.T.'s program (Pet Educational Trainers) and co-founded Partners for Life, which saved hundreds at the East Valley Animal Shelter.

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