Doin’ a parade fur da hoomans

Us doggos went fur walkies n splooted on a floatie down State Street as part of r award-winnin Save Da Hoomans campaign thingy.

R hoomans gave us treatos. We gave tippy taps n kisses tellin hoomans to does a sign up at savedahoomans.org/volunteer. Cuz we must save em all. We think 10,000 hoomans were ther n gave us lotz of pats. We were good bois n gurls n didn’t Bork or does zoomies.

New floofers joined da pack from Write-Way Rescue n It’s a Pittie Rescue. We luv r new frens. Hoomans, pleze give em good homez.

da doggo-led save da hoomans® n human-led da new normal® campaigns r part dis thingy with smarty academic medical centerz to speed up da search for breakthroughz an give da public a matchmakin site to find thingies they care about lotz. Tell ur hooman to does a sign up here. https://savedahoomans.org/forhoomans/

da save da hoomans® campaign is spearheaded by us doggos mobilizin to save peoples from diseases an r owners liven healthier, longur lives – becuz it’s heckin hard to open peanut buttur jars without thumbs. Da doggos of abc7chicago’s hoomans cheryl scott, samantha chatman, an roz varon hav all joined da pack – an u an ur doggo can, too, at savedahoomans.org./joindapack.

not into r doggolingo? u can walkie to bethenewnormal.org, da human-led side of da campaign.

check out highlights from da parade in dis instagram reel, includin da pups stealin da heart of abc7chicago meteorologist greg dutra. Thx to parade chairman hooman Sergio Serritella fur doesn us a donate fur da floatie thingie.

About The New Normal® and Save Da Hoomans® Movement

The New Normal® and Save Da Hoomans® Campaigns are championed by the Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM), a partnership between the University of Chicago and Rush in collaboration with Advocate Health Care, the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), Loyola University Chicago, and NorthShore University HealthSystem, as well as the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute and the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS). The ITM, NUCATS, and CCTS are fueled by nearly $80 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program. The Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research shared its technology to help connect the public with research opportunities for this initiative. This initiative is also supported by the Chicago Department of Public Health and other regional and national partners who believe in empowering everyone to get involved in making discoveries to improve human health. Learn more and join at bethenewnormal.org or savedahoomans.org.

This project is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through Grant Number UL1TR002389 that supports the Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM); Grant Number UL1TR001422 that supports NUCATS; Grant Number UL1TR002003 that supports the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS); and Grant Number UL1TR002240 that supports the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.