Portland was ranked the nations "Dog-Friendliest City" by Dog Fancy Magazine in 2006 and it's no wonder why. Today was Portland's annual Doggie Dash.  The route took dogs and their people along the Waterfront Park, over a bridge, down the eastside Esplanade, over another bridge and back down to Front Street (I was volunteering on the westside, so I am not sure of which bridges).  This event reportedly earned the Oregon Humane Society over $52,000 as of last week and event coordinators expected to double that by the time the event started today if the weather held. Fortunately, it did.  Other than sleeping, I couldn't think of a better way to spend my Saturday morning... amongst hundreds (if not thousands) of other dog-people like myself.

Update 5/12/2008:  Here is a link to this weekend's past Doggie Dash event.