Saturday, April 18, 2009
The Animal Rescue Site is hosting a special challenge for eligible Petfinder.com member shelter and rescue groups. The grand prize is a $20,000 grant, and they will be awarding many other grants to rescue groups with the most votes — a total of $100,000 in grants for animal welfare organizations.
Geez! Think how many pugs Central Florida Pug Rescue could help for $20,000!
To help CFPR win the grant, you just have to vote for them each day. The contest runs from now until July 26,2009. Voting is free, but it is a little tricky, so I will do my best to explain. When you click the image below you will be taken to The Animal Rescue Site. Once there, you will need to click on the “Click Here to Give - It’s Free Button. By doing that you, The Animal Rescue Site sponsors will make a donation to provide food for an animal in a shelter. Very nice! Now here is the tricky part. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for the banner in the middle that says “The Animal Rescue Site 100,000 Shelter Challenge. Click the image. On the next page that appears, scroll down until you see the “Search and Vote for a Shelter” box. In that box type in “Central Florida Pug Rescue” for the Shelter Name and select FL for the state and click the Search button. Just below the search form, Central Florida Pug Rescue’s listing will then appear. Click the vote button next to their name. Now for my favorite part, to confirm that you are in fact a person you will need to type in the name of the animal that appears on the next page. Once you have done that your vote has been counted!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
This week’s flashback: Chef Henri
My little taste tester.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
There is a doggie door just to your left. Feel free to use it any time.
The girls are also nicely framing one of the best things we have ever bought - a top entrance litter box for the cat. Why so much excitement over a litter box? Well, when the boys were puppies they picked up the nasty habit of fishing in the litter box. It was disgusting and keeping them out of the litter box while giving the cat free access to the litter box became a real pain. Then I discovered a top entrance litter box at Petsmart one day. It is essentially like a plastic storage container with a hole cut in the top. With a $30 price tag, we passed on buying the box the first time we saw it and tried to make our own. The sturdiness of the lid was a big issue after we cut a hole in it and since I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize the cat’s litter box experience, we shelled out the $30 bucks for the real thing and it has absolutely been a perfect solution to our problem.
Lucky for us, the cat isn’t too picky about her litter box design.
And speaking of the cat, she is probably the one that uses the doggie door the most!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
In the comments of yesterday’s blog post, Linda had the idea to post a few before and after pictures of Sol. Sol has most definitely been through a lot since she has been with us and much to my surprise she has only been with us for a little over three months. It seems much, much longer than that! (And I mean that in the nicest way.) So, I went through the photos and picked a picture of Sol for each month she has been a part of the OBP pack.
December 2008
Sol came to us on December 29, 2009. There wasn’t much time left in the month, but we did get a few pictures of her when she first arrived. This photo was taken on her 2nd day with us.
January 2009
This picture was taken on January 4, 2009 after Sol had a few more days of OBP livin’ under her belt.
February 2009
This picture was taken on February 24, 2009. At this point we knew about Sol’s cancer. Nine days later she would have a mandibulectomy to remove the tumor from her mouth.
March 2009
This picture was taken on March 6, 2009. Sol had surgery on the 5th and we were able to bring her home the next evening. Hard to believe she had part of her jaw removed the day before.
The next picture was taken on March 20, 2009. Just a few weeks after her surgery and Sol has adjusted perfectly.
April 2009
Taken on April 6, 2009, Sol is sprawled out doing what Sol does best - keeping a close eye on me while I’m in the kitchen.
