Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Pet Blogger Gift Exchange

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When Pamela over at Something Wagging suggested a Pet Blogger Gift Exchange wherein you are paired with a blogger you get to know and then share “encouragement, compliments, and a little bit of link love” in a blog hop, I said Hell Yeah.

Sign. Me. Up.

Then I got an e-mail from Pamela telling me I was paired with Cokie the Cat’s blog.

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WTF?

A. Cat. Blog.

I almost wrote back, um, excuse me Pamela? I write about….Dogs.   Yes Pamela, Dogs.

Then I paused.  In the spirit for which the blog hop was intended, I held my tongue and thought, my blog is titled Heart Like A dog, what would a dog do?

Stalk the cat?

No, no.  Heart like a dog would give the cat blog a chance!!

Before I even had a chance to check out the blog, I received an e-mail from Kristin, Cokie’s mom. She introduced herself and Cokie of course and told me a little bit about herself.

1) She works in the film industry.  (Can you say Jealous? I’m more of a daytime star kind of girl, but I do know who Jerry Lewis is and yes, she’s working on his latest film!)

2) Her second full-time job is a Special Projects manager for Blog Paws!!  (Super excited about this, helloooo BlogPaws 2013 here I come!)

3) She’s a Twitter genius.  In fact, she has a whole section on her blog with Twitter tips.

4) Kristin has a great sense of humor.  She added me as her friend on Blog Paws and when I told her I’d already been snooping about her blog, she responded with “You’re nosing around my blog?? Well I’m gonna go rub my cheeks all over your! =^..^= Cokes”

5) She shares the love.  The day after we met, she asked her followers on Twitter to follow Heart Like A Dog.

I discovered we also have some things in common.

  • Just like yours truly, she recently moved her blog.  Although she moved from Blogger to WordPress, where I only moved to self-hosted.
  • She recently ran a photo contest on her blog.
  • She wears many hats, besides cat mom, blogger, twitter genius….she also is the co-founder/writer for The Anipal Times.

Have you checked out Cokie the Cat yet?  Well what are you waiting for.  Go on over, say hello and tell them the dog sent you.

And did I mention, this is the Pet Blogger Gift Exchange hosted by Something Wagging.  Go check out the other cool blogs and see how Blogville shares the love.

Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list…

Merry Christmas!

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Today is a day of traditions.

We’ll start our day with a nice walk in the woods.

Three dogs walking.

Three dogs walking.

 

Settle in with a cup of Irish coffee.

And enjoy our time with family and friends.

We hope your Christmas is all of this and more.

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Whatever your traditions are, take a moment to thank our service men and women, many of them aren’t with their families this year.

Christmas Eve

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It’s Christmas eve, hopefully the majority of you who ordered are receiving your Blogville Calendars today.  I apologize to our friends in Canada and the United Kingdom as I could not get priority shipping to you.

I know everyone’s busy, so I want to keep this really short and sweet.

First I’d like to thank Julie Melfi.  Without Julie this calendar wouldn’t be.  So when you get your calendars and you love them, stop by Julie’s blog and show her a little love. 🙂 (And if you ever need any graphic art work done, I highly recommend her.)

For those who didn’t order (or those whose calendar will take a bit longer) here is a picture of the cover.

You remember Kori and Ryder, the won the spot on the cover.

You remember Kori and Ryder, they won the spot on the cover.

 

Then I’d like to thank all of you who ordered.  We sold 43 calendars and collected $952.79.  (Money exchange from the U.K. made the odd amount) some people wanted to donate more than the actual cost of the calendar which explains why we collected almost $100 more than expected.  Thank you!

We found a great printer that printed and shipped the calendars for $285.85, I spent $98.78 to ship them out to all of you, which left our donation at $568.16!!

You may remember the proceeds were to be divided equally between Life With Desmond and Champion of My Heart.

Grab a tissue now, because I want to tell you what happened.

I reached out to both bloggers.

Lauren had known about the fund-raiser, but Roxanne had no idea.  “I did NOT know about the fundraiser. Thanks so much. We’re humbled and honored by your efforts.”

I sent her half the money via paypal and received this message “Thanks so very much. That will pay for one round of Lilly’s chemo injections and one month’s cyclosporine pills.”

I still hadn’t heard from Lauren and damn it, I knew she was online. 🙂

Then yesterday afternoon I got this facebook message,

“Hey jodi, yes I am aware if the fundraiser. I’ve left a few comments on your posts. Perhaps they went to spam? In any case, I think what you and everyone has done is incredibly sweet and thoughtful. My honest feeling is that I really think Roxanne should benefit from the entire amount. The troubles she is facing are so much more intense and heart wrenching than ours. We are OK; we are displaced and will be for quite some time–we would like to fast forward 6 months and move on, but she is likely wishing she could stop time if not travel back in it to before the vaccine. Her vet bills are not going to be covered by insurance the way our house is. I really want it to all go to her. I would, however, love a copy of the calendar if possible. Again–thank you so very much.”

So I sent the rest of the money to Roxanne and am sending Lauren’s calendar out this afternoon.

I didn’t think you’d mind.

Isn’t this blogville family amazing?

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