The FOTAS Furry 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run is coming soon! You don’t have to be a runner to enjoy this event. Sign up to walk, jog or run with your dog in support of Friends of the Animal Shelter!
2 Girls and a Clock Race and Timing Services, led by Alecia Kinard and Chrystie Weimer, are organizing this special event. These women are incredibly busy educators and mothers that devote their time and energy to help the Aiken County Animal Shelter. Chrystie and her family have adopted from our Home to Home program and her children were in our Junior FOTAS Club.
2 Girls and a Clock came to us four years ago wanting to hold a 5K that would help support the many programs that save our shelter pets. Our first Furry 5K event, in 2020, was a huge success. Then the Covid pandemic hit and slowed our momentum a bit. This year, we are hoping to draw a large number of participants again.
The 2024 event is being held Saturday morning, September 21, at Generations Park. The One Mile Fun Run begins at 8:00 a.m. and the 5K will begin at 8:30.
“All of us with 2 Girls and a Clock are passionate about animals, especially dogs,” Weimer said. “We hold a special place in our hearts for our own fur babies. The Furry 5K event allows us to give back to a wonderful cause in a fun and rewarding way. We hope this event continues for years!”
This fundraiser is incredibly gratifying, and we have seen individuals from 8 to 80 years old come out and walk or run to help the pets. The atmosphere is full of good energy and people bring their families to root them on.
FOTAS Volunteers are bringing adoptable dogs to the Furry 5K in hopes of finding them loving homes. We also will be taking food donations – dry and cat wet food for dogs and cats as well as toys! If you bring your own furry friend to run with you, we will have dog treats for them.
To sign up for the FOTAS Furry 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run, please go to: https://runsignup.com/Race/SC/Aiken/Furry5Kand1MileFunRun2024
Sponsors include South Aiken Physical Therapy and Wellness as well as Lionel Smith. Ltd Gentlemen’s Clothiers.
Their lives are in our hands.
By Kathy Cagle, FOTAS Programs Coordinator
By the Numbers
In the month of August, the Aiken County Animal Shelter took in 514 stray and surrendered pets, including 139 feral cats that were spayed/neutered for the TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) program.
