Every dog has its day...out

An event is being held in Invercargill today to help raise money for Kiwi pet health research.

Healthy Pets Chair Cath Watson says there's a lot of international research - but not much specific to New Zealand.

She says there are some things that are unique to us - such as our population of working dogs compared to the rest of the world.

Watson says there's also a lot of diseases overseas that a lot of money get put into that we don't have here, like rabies, yet we have other problems.