As we prepare for the arrival of Santa Paws, all of us at DogDaz (Cats2), want to wish the happiest of holiday seasons to all our friends out in cyberspace. We are so grateful for an incredible year of blogging and meeting new animal lovers, and writers, and photographers, and really cool people, who are willing to put their thoughts, pictures, and feelings out there to connect with the rest of us, no matter where we live, what we believe, or how poorly we type. May Santa Paws find you, wherever you are, and shower you with the kindness and peace of the season. Thank you all for reading, commenting, and most of all, for letting us be part of this new social community of animal lovers. You are my present and you have brought great joy to my heart. – Louise (aka Lulu Belle), Sofie Bear, Noel (the Christmas Cat), Nine, Baby Stella and, of course, Lorian (their human).
The girls were helping make Peanut’s bed before she came home yesterday for the holidays. They miss her. They miss being in her room. And, they especially miss being on her bed. They were no help.
This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Thanks to My Life in Dog Years for hosting. Click here to get to know other wonderful animals and their parents and to see how you can take part in this fabulous blog hop!
We took the “Puppies Are Not Toys Pledge” sponsored by RumpyDog and he sent us this wonderful prize pack from the ASPCA of NYC. We grew up in New York so we feel a special affinity to anything from up there. What great fun this has been to win something for a pledge that we would take anyway, Thank you Rumpy and DeDe and June Buggy for making people smarter about this sad fact.
We love opening boxes and we never won anything before so this was neato! We won a new jingle bell collar (which is a little tight, but maybe they thought we were elf dogs), a new SantaPaws stocking (which is absolutely gorgeous), a cat toy for the kitties, an ASPCA wrist band for Mom, a box of Walker’s Scottie Dog Shortbread cookies for our guests, a box of doggy gift cards, and a really neat orange tote bag to put it all in. Yahoooooo!!! We feel really special. Thank you RumpyDog, you made our day. Also a big thanks to Olivia Melikhov at the ASPCA for getting this to us so quickly.
I don’t have any prizes to give away, but please take the pledge. Your gift is one less animal in a shelter or neglected because they were not right for a family that did not really understand that Pets Are Not Toys.
How exciting. We are part of the Pet Blogger Gift Exchange, and we have been partnered with Pawsitively Pet. You have to go meet this crew. They are something special. I am so excited to be partnered with a blog I never met before. Ann Paws, the human on the site, loves every type of animal, and it shows. She highlights information for every pet owner, and being a former vet tech, is passionate about your pet’s health. As a Texas, US, Mom of 2 adorable girls, and a sweet rat and doggie, she gives you a lot of really good stuff to read and learn.
When you have a dark dog and a light dog, getting the right camera exposure is really hard. Sofie is on my lap on the couch and Louise is on the floor. Yes, those are my piggy pajamas she has her head on (bottom right corner); they are purple. The caption should probably read something more like: “This is my Mommy so go away!,” which seems to be a constant lap battle around her.
This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Click here to get to know other wonderful animals and their parents and to see how you can take part in this fabulous blog hop!
Every day I wake up in a heap of cats. For that I am thankful. Then I open the kennel doors and I am slobbered and licked and tail whipped good morning, and for that I am thankful. There is no where that I go in my home that I am not accompanied by some four legged furry, and for that I am thankful. How totally different my life would be without my fur family. Since about 5 years old (which was a very very long time ago), I have always had fur family. And, for that, I am thankful. There are so many positive things that I get from my pets. They comfort me when I am blue. They are my walking partners. They make sure that I do not forget to do my chores (or they will do them for me: like cleaning the litter boxes in a way that I do not think is acceptable or licking the dirty dishes clean). They give me smiles on a rainy day and provide me hugs. They make me get up from the computer and go outside to feel the breeze. And, so importantly, they make me laugh (especially Louise). Life with furry family is wonderful to me.
If it is Thursday, then it must be Thankful Thursday Blog Hop day. I am hopping this from PepsiSmartDog’s Smart Dog Blog. Pepsi seems like a well educated dog, so go check out the site.
Last week was Thanksgiving holiday in the US, and I know that I said thank you to all my readers and for all the wonderful things that I am thankful for, but the truth is, every day that I wake up I am thankful. I do not think that I ever stop feeling blessed by this wonderful life that I have. My great family, the animals that surround me, my great neighborhood, my friends, my health, my job…. I am just one very lucky person. But since this is an animal blog, I think that I need to look at it from their side. So let me ask some of them:
Louise: I am thankful that I have a family that loves me and protects me; a Mom who understands that I am afraid of a lot of things and doesn’t make me deal with the world any more than I really can. I am also really thankful for being able to get up on the den couch.
Sofie: I am thankful for my sister Louise, and for my cats (that I love to chase), all my toys, and especially for my lovey, Beaver.
Noel: I am thankful for the nice warm spot that Mom leaves in her bed in the morning, so that I can crawl in it and sleep the rest of the day.
DogDaz Zoo 