Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

 

Animal Couriers said, “What’s the longest time she has spent in that activity?”

One weekend I think she actually sat there for two or three hours.  I was really beginning to worry!

Faded Photographs…

Lindsay said, “I have a tough time getting action shots, but the good ones are always outside with the right lighting. I take about 20 or 30 shots and usually a single photo is decent.”

You have far more patience than I do.  Usually I’m done after five shots, but on occasion I’ve been known to take up to ten.  Most of them are garbage and when I get a really good shot, I try and use an online editor and get the most bang for my buck.  ‘-)

Tori said, “if you use an iPhone, try tapping a dark part of the dog (i usually aim for their chest), then take it. Your phone will automatically lighten it up so you can see the darker parts!”

Holy God!  How did I not know this?  I bow to you Tori.  Thank you.  Thank you.

One Person CAN Make a Difference

I think what I was trying to share was sometimes when you look at the big picture of animal welfare, it can be so overwhelming, and people look at large organizations and think, “I can’t do that” but the point is you don’t have to!   People just like you and me ARE making a difference and you can too.  

Of course, I don’t think it came across that way.  You however, you all said it so much better than I did. 

Molly the Wally said, “If each of us do something even small we can move mountains.”

Sue at Talking Dogs said, “It we’re paying attention, we sometimes find surprising directions life takes us and we can help others in ways we’d never thought about or planned.”

Jen K said, “It’s easy to get bogged down in the gravity of the situation (animal welfare), but stories like this prove that every person and every effort is worth it and makes a real difference.”

Jackie said, “I think sometimes the “we can’t save them all” attitude can keep some people from doing anything – they feel overwhelmed and defeated before they even start, but every bit helps.”

This ‘N That Thursday, January 16, 2014

 

Dawn said, “Maya and I went for a fun trip the other day and we were at a stop light when Maya suddenly started barking in a menacing way. It scared me because I thought perhaps a stranger was walking up to my car. But nope. She was barking at a cow-shaped sign in front of a yogurt shop. I was laughing so hard, someone behind me honked their horn because I didn’t realized my light had turned green.”

Oh my.  Did I laugh over this one.  Thank you for sharing Dawn, I could definitely see Delilah doing this.

From my heart

I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for the wonderful support you’ve shown for the Follow-Up Friday blog hop.  For all you who helped by spreading the word or co-hosting with me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

As you know, I wanted FUF to be a blog hop with revolving hosts to help share the linky love.  That wasn’t always easy to do and I realized it just wasn’t working.   So after much soul searching, I’ve decided to end the FUF blog hop.  I will continue FUF as a weekly feature on this blog because 1) I truly enjoy it and 2) many of you seem to enjoy it as well.  

And for those of you, who like this feature, please feel free to use it on your blogs!

For quite a few months Linda from 2 Brown Dawgs and I have been talking about combining our hops and I’m excited to announce it has finally come to pass. 

We’re super excited to announce The Thursday Barks and Bytes Blog Hop, which begins next Thursday, January 23^rd. a We wanted the hop to be appealing to dog bloggers but also to non dog bloggers as well, which is where the ‘Bytes” comes in.

Linda and I are very excited and hope all of you will join us next Thursday for the inaugural hop.  In order to start us off right, we have a giveaway planned for all participants. 

 Isn’t it pretty?  

 

I love it so much and it was designed by the Amazing Jodi Chick from Kol’s Notes.  By the time next week rolls around, the badge will be in the side bar with code to help you add it to your blog.  Sounds good, right?

Are you ready?  Cool.  Grab a badge from here or 2 Brown Dawgs and come back Thursday for all the details and help us kick this hop off!