TINTON FALLS — Students at Monmouth Regional High School have organized a fundraiser to help homeless and abused dogs in Puerto Rico.
Members of the Spanish Club and the Animal Friendly Organization at the school will host an amateur dog show and fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The public is welcome, and attendees can bring their dogs to the event.
Proceeds will benefit Save A Sato, a nonprofit organization that helps Puerto Rico's abused street dogs. "Sato" is slang for street dog in Spanish.
According to its Web site, Save A Sato rescues the dogs from streets and beaches, gives them medical care, food and shelter. When they are rehabilitated, they are sent to shelters in the United States to be adopted.
There are several activities and demonstrations planned during Saturday's fundraiser.
Oakhurst Veterinary Hospital and Red Bank Veterinary Hospital will have information booths at the event and will offer pet care tips. Many local pet stores also will have representatives on site to answer questions.
There will be two demonstrations — at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. — on the football field. Frisbeelab.com's aerialist dogs will be catching Frisbees and doing flyball shows set to music.
An amateur dog show will be held in the gym. Categories include: best trick, craziest mixed mutt, owner/dog look-alike and best dressed/cutest costume. Prize baskets will be given to the winners.
The Best in Show winner will win a customized handpainted portrait of the dog, to be painted by the outreach coordinator of Save a Sato, Twig Mowatt.
Local shelters with dogs for adoption also will be attending the event.
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