Dallas shelters bring 200 adoptable dogs to Klyde Warren Park this Saturday

I've got a great idea for you. You can celebrate your pup or find a new best friend at Clyde Warren Park's annual dog adoption day. It is this weekend. Gigi Gardner and Calvert Collins Bratton here this morning to talk about this. Another fun event coming to Clyde Warren. How many events do you guys do? A lot. Yeah, I know, I know. I love this one as a huge supporter of rescues in our area and trying to get some of these dogs out of the shelters because there's so many. This is a great way to bring people out. Yes, we're really lucky to be in partnership with the Barking Project who has wrangled over two dozen shelter and rescue groups to be in one place so that we've got over 200 dogs ready to be adopted. We're so grateful that Gigi is our honorary chair, a longtime dog and shelter dog lover and advocate. And so we hope that others will be inspired like she was to find a new forever friend. Yeah, to get this many animals in one spot is going It's going to be huge and to have all of them working together, what do you expect to see out there? A lot of people coming and looking for their forever furry friend and with a good home because all these dogs that are shelter dogs, they need homes and they're just... For no fault of their own, on the streets, or in shelters that find them. So we hope to adopt as many as we can this weekend, thanks to Calvert. What kind of pup do you have? I have a German Shepherd. That's what my son loves those dogs, they are beautiful. And I think a lot of people sometimes will feel like, well, I can't find a certain breed or a certain whatever kind of dog I have in my head at a shelter. I mean, a lot of these dogs are proof that you can, right? Absolutely. There's every kind of dog out there and there's a shelter for every dog. Yeah. Yeah. So the Barking Project is going to be doing this, all these different shelters with the dogs, rescues, I should say, that are going to be helping out. There's also a lot of fun too. It's not just about the pups. I know you're going to have some music that's going to be rocking and more. We've got a DJ raffle prizes giveaway. If you already have a dog and you would like to. Perhaps purchase some holiday treats and clothing and other vendors that will be there. And 100% of the proceeds that will be raised this weekend will benefit the Barking Project so that they can keep doing events like this to get more dogs out of shelters. They've even reached out to rescue groups across the region so that we're, you know, not just here in Dallas, but other groups that maybe don't have as big of an audience and to bring them to hopefully get them adopted as well. It is so great right now. Absolutely. I mean, I feel like we are seeing more and more animals turned in. It could be financial reasons. It could be because people are having to move. So we're seeing a great need for it. Absolutely. Absolutely. And once you get your dog, like when I got my first dog, the passion started. So once you rescue, you want to rescue again and again because they're just great dogs and they know you rescued them. I happen to know that as well. Adoption Day. It is Saturday. Come on out. It's going to be the perfect day at Clyde Warren Park, 11 to 4, Clyde Warren Park. A link with more information on our website, fox4news.com. And if you get a pup from that event, let me know. I'll share it on social media. That's going to be a lot of fun just to see all the matchups, right? Yes. Very cute. Thank you both for being here and for what you do for the area. Appreciate it.