Step out with your best friend
The Port Alfred and Ndlambe SPCA needs serious support and so Rotary Kenton have put their shoulders to the wheel, organising a morning of appropriately furry fun on the beach.
The SPCA’s admin manager Forbes Coutts sets out the SPCA facts and figures alongside here to help you understand exactly why they need our support.
But all you need to think about for now is getting yourself to Ndlambe’s canine event of the year.
Rotarians Roger and Bridget McCarthew are the brains (and hearts) behind “Walk for Wags”, a walkathon at Kenton’s Middle Beach.
““You can arrive any time between 9am and 11am and we’ll be there,” Roger said.
How far is the walk? “You can choose,” Roger said. “It’s about 1.2km, but you can make up a route of about 10km by going upriver.”
It’s not a race, and your “medal” is knowing that the R50 you pay to be part of the walkathon will go towards keeping the SPCA open.
The idea flowed naturally from the fact that there is a regular crowd of residents and their dogs on the beach any time from 5am onwards.
“That includes a good six or seven dogs that wait on the water’s edge for their wavewarrior people.”
You can pay by EFT or snapscan on Sunday morning or before (see the code on the ad alongside here).
For the four-legged walkers
there will be water, a biscuit or two and – yes – a poo pick-up bag so you leave the beach pretty much how you found it.
Bring a leash and unless you are 100% sure your dog is fine with other dogs and people, keep them on it.
Sunday’s weather prediction (WeatherSA) is a very comfortable range of 15°C-23°C and mostly clear.