Walk with your best friend (furry or human) this September to help homeless pets find their best friend.
How it works
Best Friends' Walk is a month-long fitness and fundraising challenge for you and your best friend (furry or human). Make a difference one step at a time while celebrating the bond we share with our furry friends!
Choose your distance and raise funds to help homeless pets find their new best friends through PetRescue’s adoption platform and assistance programs. It’s free to sign up and you’ll get to strengthen the bond between you and your BFF.
Register
Set a fundraising goal and choose how far you and your BFF will walk during September to help homeless pets find love.
You can choose any distance that will challenge you. Maybe it’s 5km a day for 10 days to reach a 50km goal or 1km a day for the entire month to reach 30km or even 5km every weekday to walk 100km!
Just make sure it’s suitable for your furry best friends abilities, too.
Fundraise
Share your challenge and get everyone you know to dig deep and sponsor you. Funds raised will go toward finding a home for every pet that needs one!
Walk
Pick the path that suits you and your best friend to reach your challenge goal!
You can walk anywhere you and your best friend would like to during September—whether around your neighbourhood, on a bushwalk, at the beach or in a park. Walk solo or with all your besties!
PetRescue’s Best Friends' Walk creates happiness and saves lives.
It recognises and celebrates the special bond between people and pets - the positive impact pets have on their guardians and the joy they bring.
By joining PetRescue’s Best Friends' Walk and raising funds, you're not only strengthening the bond between you and your BFF by spending quality, enriching time together; you're also helping homeless pets find their new best friends through PetRescue’s adoption platform and assistance programs.
Sam and her partner Jai adopted their beautiful staffie girl Arlo after finding her profile on PetRescue, and they can’t remember life without her now! Sam's heart melted as she flicked through the photos on Arlo's PetRescue profile and knew it was love.
“Arlo is so much more than just a pet, ‘she’s been my best friend, in hard times and good times, she has always been there to cry or dance with.”
Leaderboard
Remember, each step you take and every dollar you raise brings a homeless pet closer to finding their new best friend.
So, whether you're in the lead or working your way up, remember – every paw-ticipant makes a real difference. Keep on walking, roaming, rolling, riding, swimming or strolling, and let's find a home for every pet that needs one!
FAQs
Where do I walk?
You can walk anywhere you and your best friend would like to—whether around your neighbourhood, on a bushwalk, at the beach or in a park. Remember to keep safe and watch out for other best friends on a mission to help pets find love.
How far do I walk?
That’s up to you! We’ve suggested 50km or 80km (total, over the month of September), but you can choose any distance that will challenge you.
Maybe it’s 5km a day for 10 days to reach a 50km goal or 1km a day for the entire month to reach 30km or even 5km every weekday to walk 100km!
Just make sure it’s suitable for your furry best friends abilities, too.
If your bestie is a homebody, the best part of this fundraiser is that you can choose the way you move, like an obstacle course in your backyard or a scavenger hunt inside your home.
What do I have to do?
PetRescue’s Best Friends' Walk is a flexible fitness and fundraising challenge designed to get you moving while supporting a great cause! Here's how you can participate:
Register:
Sign up for free! It's easy to participate solo but feel free to form a team to get your friends, family, and colleagues to join you.
Choose Your Challenge:
Choose how far you and your BFF will walk during September. It could be 30km, 50km, 80km or even further! Every step you take helps homeless pets find love.
- Feeling adventurous? Walk, run, swim, roam, roll, or even dance your way to your chosen goal.
- Focus on fun! Pick a challenge that’ll be enjoyable and achievable for you and your best friend, whether you commit to a brisk walk around the block or an energetic jog in the park each day during September to reach your goal.
Fundraise:
Share your fundraising goal and get everyone you know to dig deep and sponsor you. Funds raised will go toward finding a home for every pet that needs one throught PetRescue's adoption platform and assistance programs!
Walk:
Pick the path that suits you and your best friend best – then stroll, roll, ride, or roam during September to reach your distance goal.
If your pet bestie is joining the fun, keep these things in mind:
- Consider their fitness level and age. Choose a total distance that you can break down into smaller distances that are comfortable for them to walk each day over the month of September.
- What if your furry friend doesn’t like walks? No worries! Instead, create a fun obstacle course or treasure hunt at home for them to enjoy, go on a sniffari or commit to learning some new tricks.
Remember:
The key is to get active, spend time with your BFF, raise awareness for a good cause, and have some fun!
Where do the funds go that I raise?
Funds raised during the Best Friends' Walk go directly to towards PetRescue’s adoption platform and adoption assistance programs.
Who is PetRescue?
PetRescue is a national for-purpose organisation on a mission to help you discover the joy of adopting a new furry family member. PetRescue.com.au is the go-to place for finding a rescue pet and is Australia's most visited charity website! We're best known for our pet adoption platform and for using technology to drive positive change.
But that’s not all! PetRescue supports rescue organisations, councils, vets nationwide, and pets in need.
This includes large-scale food and product donations, a pet transport program, crisis care support, an assisted rehoming program, and more!
PetRescue’s tools and digital support helps relieve workloads, speed up the adoption process, and, in turn, increase the capacity for rescue organisations to help the most vulnerable pets. Funds raised go toward ensuring that PetRescue can continue to develop ‘time-saving for life-saving’ tools that help the rescue community from every corner of Australia manage the adoption process and get pets into new homes quickly, no matter where they are.
