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No More Pictures!

August 21, 2013 By Jodi

The submission portion of the Calendar contest is now closed.  If all goes well the voting will begin on Saturday.

As of today these are photos I have.  There were a couple photos that Julie received that I did not and vice versa. If you submitted a photo and don’t see your name/blog here, send me an e-mail at stone.jodi@ymail.com

If there is an error in either the dog’s name or the blog name or address, again please let me know.  There is a lot of work involved in this and mistakes happen.  We are human after all. 🙂

Blueberry from Spotty, Spotty, Polkadotty

Frankie and Ernie from FRANKly and ERNESTly Speaking

Dakota from Dakota’s Den

Maya from American Dog Blog

Alma and Moses from Back Alley Soapbox

Molly from Molly the Wally

Winston from The Winston Blog

Roxy from Roxy the Traveling Dog

Freckles from A Day In The Life Of A Goose

Hailey and Zaphod from The Hailey and Zaphod Chronicles

Bailey, Hazel and Greta from Idaho PugRanch

Ranger from The Adventures of Ranger – The Scottie Pup

Norman from Sand Spring Chesapeake’s

Emma from My GBGV Life

Susie “Sweetie Petunia” of The Mad Scots

Rita from Pooch Smooches

Dougall and Alex from The Dougall Diaries

Teach from Tails of Teach

Desmond from Life With Desmond

Sasha from Silly Sasha the Loveable Shih Tzu

Reilly and Denny from The Cowspotdogs

Lola and Lucy from Wear. Wag. Repeat

Ryder from All Things Collie

Shiva from Rescued Insanity

Ruby from Me, You and Zu

Shiloh and Diva Shasta from TEAM BEAGLEBRATZ

Benny and Lily from Two French Bulldogs

Wrigs from Life with Wrigs: hike, play, eat, nap!

Sampson and Delilah from Heart Like a Dog

Cupcake from No Dog About It

Gizmo from Terrier Torrent

Bella from I Still Want More Puppies

Bunny from Tales and Tails

Bella from Bringing Up Bella

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin from Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties

Holy snap!  At my count that is 35 participants, well up from last year’s 20!  This is going to be a great contest.

So tell me, how did you choose your photos?  There was one I really wanted to submit of the dogs sitting in front of my flowering trees, but when I checked them out, there was only one with both of them in it and they were looking away from the camera and Sampson had a big bald spot on his head.

Bald spot story.  Apparently there is something in our yard that Sampson is allergic to and it’s something that he sticks his head under, so I’m thinking bush or tree branch.  The allergy gives him little hives on his head and they itch so he scratches and well before you know it, he’s got an infection.  Now that we’re aware of it, we keep a close eye and start slamming him with Benadryl the first sign of hives.

They're not looking at the camera in this one.

They’re not looking at the camera in this one.  And of course there is that bald spot…

I love this one, but Delilah's not in it.

I love this one, but Delilah’s not in it, and of course there is that bald spot…

I love this one, but Sampson's not in it.

This might have worked, but Sampson’s not in it and there would also be that bald spot…

 

So you can see my dilemma.  I finally took them up in the woods and set them in on a rock and snapped a photo.  It’s not my best, but it’s the best one I have at the moment that has both of them in it.  I know I’d never hear the end of it if I submitted just one of them.

So how did you choose?

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Filed Under: Delilah, Dogs of Blogville, Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest, Sampson, Sampson and Delilah Tagged With: Calendar Contest, Delilah, Life With Sampson And Delilah, Sampson, sampson and delilah

2nd Annual Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

August 14, 2013 By Jodi

The Daily Dog Blog and Heart Like a Dog are proud to announce the 2nd annual Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest.

Since this is only the second time we have done this, we’re still learning, but we do have SOME rules.

They go like this:

  1. We (The Daily Dog Blog and Heart Like a Dog) make the rules.
  2. Submission portion of contest begins immediately.
  3. Photos are limited to one photo per blog (so we can showcase as many dogs as possible.)  If you have more than one dog that represents your blog you can either submit one dog or a photo with both (all) your dogs.
  4. Dogs who have crossed the bridge are eligible to participate.
  5. Photos should be submitted to stone.jodi@ymail.com AND julesmelfi@gmail.com
  6. No photo editing allowed.  Any editing deemed necessary will be done by Julie.
  7. Photo should be a good, high resolution digital image (11″ x  8½” @ 300 dpi output, the largest setting on minimum 6MP camera.) Best quality images are approximately 2832 pixels by 2128 pixels at 300 dpi and a minimum of 1MB.(I have no idea what this means, but thankfully Julie does!)
  8. We strongly suggest your photo is oriented in Landscape as opposed to Portrait.  (This makes for easier formatting when designing the calendar.
  9. Submission portion of contest ends Tuesday, August 20th at midnight.
  10. We reserve the right to use your submitted photo on our blogs for promotional purposes only, with credit given to the photo/blog owner of course!
  11. Voting will begin Saturday, August 24th at 12:01 AM and end Saturday, August 31st at 11:59 PM.
  12. Voting is limited to once every 24 hours. (More instructions when the voting process begins.)

Last year our Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest raised right around $500 which was donated to Roxanne Hawn at Champion of My Heart. This year our fundraising efforts will be for Benny The Frenchie.

For those of you new to this blog, you can read all about last year’s contest here.

All I can say is the contest exceeded my expectations, and Julie designed a damn fine, high quality calendar that I’ve been enjoying all year.

I mean really, how can you look at this picture every day in August and not smile?

Frankie and Ernie

Frankie and Ernie

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Yup, it’s Frankie and Ernie from FRANKly and ERNESTly Speaking.

Last year we had 20 dogs enter the contest and I’m very pleased to say that Julie managed to fit all the dogs in the calendar.  Of course there are no guarantees we can do that again this year, it all depends on the number of entries.

So start digging through your photos or grab your camera and your dog(s) and start snapping. 🙂  You’ve got one week.

Now go!

Update to yesterday.  Yes, I got the video to load on YouTube (and after it did I flipped a big middle finger to Apple, take that!) so as I promised, here is the video showing exactly WHAT Delilah will do for a frozen piece of pineapple.

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Follow-Up Friday, July 19, 2013

July 19, 2013 By Jodi

Thank you for joining me for Follow-Up Friday, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, my co-hostess this week is the fabulously wonderful Jodi Chick from Kol’s Notes.  Don’t just take my word for it.   You know Kol’s Notes is a finalist in this years Petties, right?  I mean Holy Woof, my co-hostess this week not only won a Nose to Nose Award for best Bark Blog, she’s also up for a Pettie for Best Dog Blog.   Some of our other blogging friends are up for awards as well, so make sure you go vote.

I feel like I’m blogging with royalty.  Thank you so much for co-hosting this week Jodi!

You Make Me Smile

Emma said, “Mom says the ultimate lazy dog move was about 2 years ago when she took me out to pee and I laid down and peed while lying down.”

Wow Emma that is either really lazy or you weren’t feeling well at all.  But I’m with mom, I would probably find that disgusting.

Kim said, ” I can’t lay down and eat, so how do they?”

Good question Kim I wonder that myself!  I also worry that he’ll choke.

Flea said, “My dog makes me laugh when he’s running away from the duck.”

That would make me laugh too Flea, except I’ve seen how mean Petey is.  I’d run from him too. 😉

In CT it’s Against the Law

Marie asked, “what is a pig gestation crate?”

I’m not sorry to tell you that I don’t know.  I don’t want to know either.  Sue knows, and she will tell you but please NOT HERE.  While I love to advocate for animal welfare there are some things that I just can’t read about because it gives me such anxiety that I cannot sleep.

Suffice to say, it’s horrifying.

2 Brown Dawgs commented, “Some of those things are good, but why do the animal rights people always have to go after the hunters?”

I would say because just like everything else, certain people take advantage of or abuse privileges which ends up impacting everyone.

Pam asked, “Why have a pet if you’re just going to tie it up outside?”

Probably because it’s not really a ‘pet,’ at least it’s not treated as such.  Some people have such horrible views about animals and proper treatment.

Little Lady No Name

I love how some of you gave her a name.  There is something so inexplicably sad to me that she has no name.

I don’t know if she made it out or not, I was too afraid to call the pound.

Such Intensity

Top of stairs

 

You had a lot of good guesses, but no-one guessed right.

My favorite comment came from Elyse, “I’m gonna guess that Delilah was acting crazy at the bottom of the stairs and he was giving her a “WTF?” look.”

The funny thing is, I totally picture him rolling his eyes when she does some of her crazy antics.

So here’s what he was looking at.

You guys remember Bob?  Bob Stone?

You guys remember Bob? Bob Stone?

 

Yuppers, it was Bob Stone the cat.

This ‘N That Thursday

Blueberry’s Human said, “Yay – loved the calendar – it really is good quality and the photos are excellent!”

Thank you.  The reason this means so much to me is she bought one of the calendars.  In fact, Blueberry is the featured dog for the month of October.

Blue

 Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s mom said, “I’ll be glad to send you some bugs … hehe”  And Donna said, “Jodi – you are so lucky it hasn’t been buggy by you.”

Perhaps I wasn’t clear.  Walking the dogs around the neighborhood at 9:00 pm was fairly bug free, going out on our normal walks in the woods and we are bombarded.  We are not lacking bugs, thank you very much!

Now this one is going back a ways.

Seven Ways to Pissed Off

Remember this?

PicMonkey Collage

Yesterday when we went to the park, all the signs were gone.  I’m not complaining, but I am curious as to what happened.

That’s it for me, thanks again to my co-hostess Jodi Chick.  This is the Follow-Up Friday Blog hop hosted by Kol’s Notes and Heart Like a Dog.

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