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This ‘N That Thursday – July 18, 2013

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Today we join our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs for This ‘N That Thursday

This 'N That Thursday

It’s a little of this, a little of that and everything in between….

Follow-up Friday –

You remember my good friend Jodi Chick?  She co-hosted the blog hop with me a few weeks back and I’m happy to say, it didn’t scare her off.  She’s back for another go and will be co-hosting with me tomorrow.

Jodi got royally screwed and I don’t mean by one of those handsome princes.  No, Big Brother Google (the incestuous bum) screwed Jodi’s RSS feed when Google Reader went the way of the dodo.  Jodi needs some help getting her readers back.  If you don’t read Kol’s Notes you are really missing a great blog.  So please hop on over and check them out.  Oh and don’t forget to add her RSS feed to whatever reader you’re using.

I happen to be using Feedly right now and I was getting Kol’s Notes every day, but all of a sudden nothing!  So if you’re a follower of Koly’s and haven’t been getting his posts, you may want to go back in and add them to your reader again.  When I added the feed yesterday I had to add a /feed to the end of the web address and viola, I got Kol’s Notes back in my feed again!

Excessive Heat Warning-

Just like the rest of the country, we’re in the midst of a heat wave.  The weather is so hot and humid, walking should be done early morning or later at night.  Right now I’m keeping our walks short.  Like 20 minutes short.  It’s just too dangerous otherwise.  Last night we walked the dogs at 9:00 pm and it was still 86 degrees out.

The good thing?  There weren’t very many bugs!

Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest-

You remember the hastily put together Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest in October/November of last year?  I decided in a moment of brilliance or stupidity to have a calendar contest that ended up benefiting some fellow bloggers.  I threw the idea out, got some photos back and then I was lost.  Thankfully I have an amazing blogville family and the extremely awesome and incredibly talented Julie from The Daily Dog Blog and Leg Up Creative Solutions threw herself in the water with me and handled every detail of the calendar design and production.

Every. Single. Detail.

Well my dears, Julie has agreed to once again assist with this calendar project.  I hope to nail the specifics down and make an announcement next week with the contest guidelines.  So if you’re planning on purchasing calendars this year, you may want to set some money aside.

And start looking through your photos.

For those who didn’t purchase a calendar last year, this is the beauty who has been gracing my wall these past 18 days.

 

You can see what a great job Julie did with designing the calendars, the material is good quality, the calendars are printed in the good ole US of A AND the modest price of the calendar included the shipping.

While I haven’t yet priced calendars this year, I expect them to fall within the $20 to $25 range, which should include shipping.

So stay tuned!

Many thanks to our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.

Little Lady No Name

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Normally when I participate in Tuesday’s Tails blog hop, I feature a senior black lab.  Here’s the thing about the senior black labs in CT.  The ones I’ve found are already in foster care.  They’ve already been given their second shot at life.  There are some dogs in CT though, that are living on borrowed time.

Literally.

The city of Hartford gives a dog taken into the pound ten days to get adopted.  Ten days and then they are euthanized.  It makes me cry just thinking about it.

So when this little lady came across my facebook page, I knew I’d have to feature her.

#24XXXURGENT: Hound, Dog; Bloomfield, CT Here is the sadder part.  She has no name.  It breaks my heart that her time is so limited that they can’t be bothered to give her a name.

Here’s what her petfinder page says:

Approx. 8yrs old….approx. 65lbs

This dog has just an incredible personality

She is super sweet

Very friendly

Great with dogs she met

Very affectionate…would love to be a lap dog

She is great on leash

This poor dog has had a rough life…her teeth are worn down like she has spent her life chewing on rocks…she is blind but gets along great..adapts well and quickly to her environment and she MAY BE pregnant. She needs a person or family to love her and give her the life she so deserves!

Her legal day of adoption is Thursday, July 18th, which just happens to be my youngest daughter’s birthday.  What a wonderful gift to my daughter if this dog could find her forever home.

Yes it’s true, my daughter does not read this blog and yes, it’s true she doesn’t know about this dog, but that doesn’t matter.  I know.  And I will tell her.  And because I told her and I’m her mother she will be overjoyed that we worked so hard to save this dog on her behalf. And she will celebrate her birthday knowing a life was saved in her honor.  It will be the best birthday present she ever had.

Trust me.

Typically I don’t ask my readers to share posts.  I like to say I’m a modest kind of writer and believe if I’m producing a good quality product and it touches you in some way, you will automatically share without being told.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe people don’t share my posts.  That’s okay.  On most days.

But it is not this day!

Today I am asking you to share, to take a couple of minutes of your time to tweet a link and/or share it on your facebook page.

You won’t know that you saved a life, but you’ll know you tried.  And that is a wonderful thing.

Thank you to Lisa at Dogs N Pawz for the Tuesday’s Tails blog hop.

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