Million Paws Walk organiser Stef Gavioli with “Joey”, a three-month-old chihuahua cross at the Kingaroy RSPCA who is looking for a “furever” home 

May 20, 2013

There weren’t quite a million paws in Kingaroy’s Memorial Park on Sunday morning but the organisers of the annual RSPCA fundraiser, the Millions Paws Walk, were happy.

Organiser Stef Gavioli said there had been about 60 registrations, including 37 who had pre-registered online.

Participants had the choice of taking part in two walks: either a 2km or 4km circuit.

The Millions Paws Walk is the RSPCA’s biggest annual fundraiser and enables the organisation to raise funds to assist in caring for more than 18,000 dogs that its shelters receive every year in Queensland.

Not all the paws in the park were canine … this young Eastern Grey kangaroo, “Sooky”, was being looked after by wildlife carer Ray Kennedy from Wattle Camp 

Megan Weller with “Baxter”, a one-year-old Labrador cross

Peter Baumgartner, from Kingaroy, with five-year-old Bichon Frise “Timmy”
Kingaroy Veterinary Surgery’s Rachel Woods, Megan Weller, Cassie Marshall and Melita Sanders 

Hayley Yarnold with RSPCA adoptee, 15-week-old “Alice”, a Labrador cross 

Jamieson Pawlik, 8, with two-year-old Maremma “Ricco”
Di Hansen, from Kingaroy, with four-year-old “Sayah”, a Miniature Schnauzer 

Grant and Declan Blakely, 11, of Kingaroy, with King Charles Cavalier “Max”

Paul Kane, from Coolabunia, with two-year-old Jack Russell “Cassie”
Vet Jon Fearnley and his daughter Anita were demonstrating an endoscope … unfortunately the “patient” was, ahem, “stuffed” 

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