There comes a time after a move where your neighborhood finally feels like home. Be it a restaurant with the ultimate comfort meal, a neighbor that greets you warmly with a “Go Birds,” or an event that makes you think: Wow, I’ve really found my people. For me, that’s the Lucky’s Last Chance’s Great Weiner Race in Manayunk, a fundraising event for Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS).

The Great Weiner Race is an ethical, safe and tongue-in-cheek dog race that is free to attend and it goes a little something like this:

And they’re off! Baxter’s pulling ahead with an early lead by pumping those little legs of his, but he’s running head-to-head with morning-line favorite Scout with Rex nipping right at his toes behind him … literally! And down the stretch they come. It’s short-neck

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