I WON 1ST PLACE in WLTDO VALENTINE'S DAY ENHANCED Photo- Contest!

And I guess I will be reciving a Gift in the Mail, I did it even know about it! Now I have something to look forward to in the mail! Thank you so much for choosing me, I am Honored! And congratz to all the other winners!


This was very hard for all of us!! You are ALL so very cute!! Jackson.
HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS!!

MOMMY AND ME

1) MISSY.............http://www.dogster.com/dogs/540122/photo/3 062535

2) DAISYMAY....... http://www.dogster.com/dogs/482412/photo/2461560

3) SCOOTER........http://www.dogster.com/dogs/633225/photo/3317 731
And an honorable mention to Roscoe and his Dad!!

WLTDOVALENTINE'S DAY ENHANCED

1)MIA.............http://www.dogster.com/dogs/23 5160

2) TYLER.......... http://www.dogster.com/dogs/540131/photo/3286680

3) AWESOME........http://www.dogster.com/dogs/530080/photo/3309 929


WLTDOVALENTINE'S DAY NATURAL

1) DOUGLAS SISTERS..........http://www.dogster.com/pet_page.php?i=44419 6&j=t

2) TRIXIEMAE.................http://www.dogster.com/dogs/504086 /photo/2529751

3)GIBBON.............. http://www.dogster.com/dogs/238846/photo/2178989

February is National Heart Month! So Go Red For Women!

Go Red For Women celebrates the energy, passion and power we have as women to band together to wipe out heart disease and stroke.
Thanks to the participation of millions of people across the country, the color red and the red dress now stand for the ability all women have to improve their heart health and live stronger, longer lives.

For ways to prevent Heart Desease, More Information, or to take a Checkup go to http://www.goredforwomen.org/index.aspx

I WON THE PDPC WINTER BLUES PHOTO CONTEST!

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Congratulaions you guys, you did a pawsome job as did all the entries!"


Are Star: “Congratulations on winning the PDPC Winter Blues Photo Contest! Super dooper photo! Duffy”


And we got a great photo and Star for winning! Thank you so much for choosing us,what a honor to win! And thank you so much for are great gifts!

~*I HAVE BEEN LOVE TAGGED BY Vesuvius Lucy!*~

The rossete I recived: "“You have been love tagged! Please see my diary and choose which game you would like to play! Happy Valentine's Day! Love & Licks, Suvi”"

"Please tag five pups and send this on.

We have a thread going over on PawSpot for the month of February. I would like to have all of you get involved in doing your part in some way! You are of course, invited to join PawSpot and play with us, but if that is not your thing, please join us in this very worthy cause.

Here is the idea:


PawSpot is holding a Do GOOD Doggy Day. During the month of February, everyfur can help out to make shelters a better place for doggies and kitties around the country.

Pick something nice to do for a shelter near you!

Here are a few suggestions to help out:
-Volunteer to help walk, play, give baths & brush, or just help out at a shelter.
-Recycle bottles and cans and then donate the proceeds to a shelter.
-Donate hand made blankets or buy one for a doggy at a shelter to keep them warm and cuddly.
-Donate money!
-Host a fund raiser!
-Adopt or foster an animal in need.
-Write letters and thank you notes to shelters encouraging them and thanking them for helping animals everywhere!
-Search Goodsearch.com, and raise money for your shelter.
-Help out at adoption events, or ask to help organize one.
-Donate items that the shelter is in need of.

These are just a few things you can do to help out! If you can think of anymore than please go ahead with them.

I am going to pick my five and they can choose to play Valentine Tag or Do Good Doggy Day to send on!"

Love & Licks,
The Douglas Sisters


I tag:
Jay-Jay
The Black and Tan Clan
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Pennsylvania Poodle Pups
Gibbon

~*How to Go Green for your Pets!*~

Mom was watching on Dateline or something like that tonight. They were showing how the glachers were melting so fast because of us of corse. And how were scientists walked 5 years ago were there was ground is now water, or were there was snow is now green. And how the Penguin and other animal population has decreased by 50%.::o So mom went online to see how she chould help out more! And thought she whould share this with you! And hope you will try to help as well!

For more info go to: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/how-to-green-your-pe t.php

What’s the Big Deal?

Ah, the pitter patter of four-legged feet as they whip through your living room at overclocked speeds or uproot your prize gladiolas with manic fervor. But Snookiepuss and Mrs. Fluffypants are practically family, right? So why should they settle for anything less than top drawer when their health and wellbeing are at stake? Throw the planet a bone while you’re at it; we’ve got the goods on how to reduce your pets’ carbon paw prints—without making your wallet roll over and play dead.

1. Adopt from a shelter

Pet breeders have only one goal in mind—to raise large quantities of purebred animals for profit. They’ve also been pilloried for misdeeds such as overbreeding, inbreeding, poor veterinary oversight, lousy food and living conditions, overcrowding, and culling of unwanted animals. Why buy when you can adopt one of the 70,000 puppies and kittens born every day in the United States? Love knows no pedigree. Check out Petfinder.com to find your perfect match.

2. Spay or neuter your pet

Did we mention 70,000 puppies and kittens are born every day in the United States? That’s 15 puppies and 45 kittens for every hairless biped that slides out of a birth canal. And “multiplying like bunnies” isn’t just any old trope. We don’t need any more homeless animals than we already have. As a bonus, spaying and neutering helps dogs and cats live longer, healthier lives by eliminating the possibility of uterine, ovarian, and testicular cancer, and decreasing the incidence of prostate disease.

3. Rein in your pets; protect native wildlife

Always keep your dog on a leash when outside, and confine your mangy feline indoors. Topped only perhaps by habitat destruction, cats are the biggest, baddest bird killers of all time. Even wind turbines have got nothing on them. While you may poo-poo high cat-related bird-mortality rates as collateral damage in the great Circle of Life, domestic cats do have an unfair advantage. Unlike wild predators, house cats are always well fed, well rested, and in tip-top fighting shape. They’re also present in more concentrated (and rapidly increasing) numbers than say, the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike.

That aside, two out of every three vets, according to the Humane Society of America, recommend keeping cats indoors, because of the dangers of cars, predators, disease, and other hazards. The estimated average life span of a free-roaming cat is less than three years; an indoors-only cat gets to live an average of 15 to 18 years. If kitty needs to heed the call of the wild, an outdoor cat enclosure is a good compromise.

4. Swap out the junk food

Most conventional pet-food brands you find at the supermarket consist of reconstituted animal by-products, otherwise known as low-grade wastes from the beef and poultry industries—you know, inedibles you wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot fork. In fact, the animals used to make many pet foods are classified as “4-D,” which is really a polite way of saying “Dead, Dying, Diseased, or Down (Disabled)” when they line up at the slaughterhouse. Unless that can of Chicken ‘N Liver Delite explicitly states that it contains FDA-certified, food-grade meat, you should know that its contents are considered unfit for human consumption—but apparently good enough for your cat or pooch.

Now, since nutrition is one of the key determinants of health and resistance to disease, ideally you’ll want your pet’s chow to be comparable in quality with what we would eat.

Natural and organic pet foods use meats that are raised in sustainable, humane ways without added drugs or hormones, minimally processed, and preserved with natural substances, such as vitamins C and E. Certified-organic pet foods must meet strict USDA standards that spell out how ingredients are produced and processed, which means no pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, artificial preservatives, artificial ingredients or genetically engineered ingredients.

(Hemp dog beds from Earth Dog)

5. Clean up their poop

Scoop up your doggie doo in biodegradable poop bags so your buddy’s No. 2 isn’t immortalized in a plastic bag, while deep-sixed in a landfill somewhere for hundreds of years. Cat owners should avoid clumping clay litter at all costs. Not only is clay strip-mined (bad for the planet), but the clay sediment is also permeated with carcinogenic silica dust that can coat little kitty lungs (bad for the cat). Plus, the sodium bentonite that acts as the clumping agent can poison your cat through chronic ingestion through their fastidious need to groom. Because sodium bentonite acts like expanding cement—it’s also used as a grouting, sealing, and plugging material—it can swell up to15 to18 times their dry size and clog up your cat’s insides. Eco-friendly cat litters avoid these problems; a happy cat is a cat that doesn’t claw your face off.

6. Give them sustainable goods

Your furry friends can get in on some saving-the-planet goodness, too—and have plenty of fun—with toys made from recycled materials or sustainable fibers (sans herbicides or pesticides) such as hemp. A hemp collar (with matching leash) is a rocking accessory for a tree-hugging mutt. These days, you can even get pet beds made with organic cotton or even recycled PET bottles.

7. Use natural pet-care and cleaning products

You don’t use toxic-chemical-laced shampoos and beauty products, so lather up your cats and dogs (or ferrets, rabbits, or hamsters—we don’t judge) with natural pet-care products, as well. And if your cat horks up a hairball, or Fifi doesn’t make it all the way to the bathroom, clean up the mess with cleaning products that are as gentle on the planet as they are on your critters’ delicate senses.

8. Pets, not fads

Sure, everyone’s ovaries ping when they see a five-year-old moppet cradle a tiny chick or a bunny during Easter, but nature dictates that baby bunnies grow up into rabbits, and little chicks into full-size chickens. Unless everyone involved understands that a pet is a long-term commitment that involves demands on both their time and money, you’re better off giving the kid a stuffed animal. Impulse buying (say, rushing out an grabbing the next available Dalmatian puppy after watching 101 Dalmatians) isn’t a good idea, either, as the large numbers of fad dogs that pass through shelters (often to their death) can attest. Repeat after us—especially you, Paris Hilton: Pets are not fads or fashion accessories.

9. Melt the ice, nicely

Use a child- and pet-safe deicer such as Safe Paw’s environmentally friendly Ice Melter. Rock salt and salt-based ice-melting products, which kids and animals might accidentally ingest, can cause health problems, while contaminating wells and drinking supplies.

10. Tag your pet

It might be a stretch to call inserting an electronic ID chip into your pet an eco-friendly move, but losing your buddy causes extreme emotional distress that turns you into nobody’s friend. Then there’s the paper waste from printing out Missing posters, the fuel cost of driving around your neighborhood trying to find them, the phone bill as you bawl your eyes out to everyone you know … well, you get the idea. Ask your vet for more info. For hanging tags, check out these recyclable (and recycled) aluminum ID tags and these WaggTaggs made from recycled silver.


Wanna Do More?

1. Compost their poop

American dogs and cats create 10 million tons of waste a year, and no one knows where it’s going, according to Will Brinton, a scientist in Mount Vernon, Maine, and one of the world’s leading authorities on waste reduction and composting.

Most of our pets’ poop either winds up in a landfill purgatory, where it’s embalmed practically forever in plastic bags, or sits on the ground until the next rainstorm washes it into the sewer where it can drift on down to rivers and beaches. You can compost the poop—just don’t use it with your vegetable garden, because the compost doesn’t heat up enough to kill pathogens such as E. coli., which could contaminate your homegrown produce and land up in your (very unhappy) belly.

If you have room in your backyard, you can bury an old garbage bin (note: far away from your vegetable garden) to use as a pet-waste composter. Or check out the Doggie Dooley. The makers of the Doggy Dooley also sell an enzymatic “Super Digester Concentrate” for your backyard pet septic system.

2. Be a pet chef

If you want to know exactly what is going into your furball’s food dish, or your pet suffers from allergies, you can always make your own puppy (or kitty) chow. If the idea of becoming a fulltime pet chef is just crazy talk, making the occasional meal or treat is completely doable. Those broccoli stalks left over from your last stirfry also make some tasty morsels for your pup.

3. Get crafty

Your cat will love you forever if you grow your own organic catnip or cat grass. Scrap yarn and fabric you might otherwise toss can also easily be transformed into pet toys with some basic crafty know-how. And they wouldn’t have had to be trucked thousands of miles just to get drooled on.

4. Get ticks off

While you don’t want to douse your pet in toxins, it is also important to keep the bugs in check. Pets can carry ticks, and ticks can carry Lyme Disease, a serious and poorly understood disease that attacks the nervous system. If you live in an area where Lyme Disease is a risk, be very cautious and seek sound advice on keeping ticks off you and your furry friends.

5. Offset your pet

Maybe Scruffy will only drink water from an electric-powered water fountain, or perhaps you have a self-cleaning litter box from before you went green—we all have corpses buried in our backyards. Why not purchase green tags, otherwise known as renewable energy credits, to offset your pets’ carbon emissions. Heck, buy ‘em for the whole family so no one feels left out. Or better yet, check if your state sells green power so you and your furry compatriots can go carbon neutral.


By The Numbers

1. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that domestic cats kill more than 39 million birds annually—and that’s just in Wisconsin.

2. There are over 66 million pet cats in the United States; approximately 35 percent are kept exclusively indoors.

3. Certain studies have shown that children who grow up with two or more pets are more than 75 percent less likely to develop allergies later in life.

4. Sixty percent of pet owners have a dog; on average owners have almost two dogs (1.7).

5.Over 5,500 puppies and kittens (compared with 415 human babies) are born every hour in the United States.

6. The U.S. Dept. of Health found that 28 percent of heart patients who were also pet owners survived serious heart attacks, compared with 6 percent of patients without pets.

7.In 1994, Time magazine estimated that as many as 25 percent of purebred dogs were afflicted with serious genetic problems.

8. Shelter workers nationwide are forced to euthanize an estimated 3 to 4 million homeless cats and dogs each year.::o



EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS! Eveing Recycleing!|$|=;

Today is the first time mom has ever heard me sing!

She was bourd and just listing to music videos on her computer and when she got to Gwen Stefani "Sweet Escape", I popped my head out under the covers and made this little noise. Mom thought I was just yawning, and said that I was silly.

But then I came over and sat next to the computer and starting cocking my head, then all of asudden I started singing. Mommy chould it stop laughing, she has never seen me do this before. So she had to grab her camra and record it, she said it was to cute and funny to miss it! She said it was it as funny as the first time I was singing but it still is very cute!

If you whould like to see it, it is on my Dogster page, under my vidoes!

VOTE FOR KITAI ON CESAR MILLANS SITE!

Trying to help one of are great pals out!

Cross Posted From his Diary:
OMD OMD OMD! Mom and I are featured on Cesar Millan's- website!
January 5th 2008 12:49 am [link to this entry]
Mom is featured in the New Years Resolution part talking about my new spay and neuter fund. But there's a snappy picture of me in my winter scarf right next to the part about her. Mom's Quote Click Here

And I'm entered in the "Photo of the Year" contest! If anyone has the time to go vote for me that would be swell! I have some very tough competition. One is a copy of his book in OUTER SPACE! How can a scruffy mutt compete with that? OUTER SPACE!

Link to Vote For Me!

We didn't even know about the photo contest until our pal Daisy Muddypaws messaged me!

Vote Kitai!;c;

I got a Christmas Gift from my SPP and I found out who it- is!

I got the bestest SPP Christmas gift ever. I got this big box of goodies that I got to open for Christmas from my SPP. And I found out who it was, it was are pal Maggie Mae. (Love your Christmas Card by the way!)

She sent the bestest gifts to me for Christmas and all year! I got a bath robe, a swimsuit, a big fire hydrant treat, a bag of candy cane raw hides, and a very pretty bandana with my name on it. Which was really cool and the best part it fit!

My 2 sisters Missy and Lady also got a pretty bandana to! They say thank you, you did it have to do that, but it was really sweet of you and they love them! Thank you so much Maggie Mae you are the best SPP, I had so much fun getting gifts from you this year. You can see 2 photos on my page or follow the link to see gifts from all year! Thank you so much, I had fun this year! Love you!

*~*ChRiStMaS tAg*~* I'm it and YOU'RE next!!!

Christmas Tag is here!

I was taged by Denali ♥

Here are the Rules:

Because it's Christmastime there are are changes to the rules. Each player needs to write a short note to Santa Paws and list 5 things on their Christmas list this year. Tagged dogs must post the rules in their diary and their letter with 5 requests. Then choose 5 pups to tag and list their names. Let them know by pawmail or rosette that they have been tagged and to read your diary for the instructions on how to play. AND... since it's Christmastime give them each 5 bones or treats.

My Letter:

Dear Santa Paws.
Hi Big Guy. I'm Mia and let's not pretend here... I have NOT been a bad girl but not a good girl either. I'll admit that I've done some things that have "put me in the dog house" BOL and I continue to do them. What can I say? It's so much fun being naughty! I'm never bored... *winks* So, Big Guy, if you can apreciate the fact that I'm an honest pup here are 5 things I would like for Christmas:

1. For all the shelter cats and dogs to find a nice loving home!
2. Good health to all are dogster and non dogster pals!
3. For are Foster Kitty to find a nice loveing forever home!
4. Bones big are small I can chew on them all!
5. Finally ... a nice new comfy bed for me and my sisters!

Thank you for taking time to read my note, Santa Paws and remember... I WAS HONEST WITH YA!

~*Mia*~

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I helped mom Bell Ring today, Missy helped mom make Nursing- Home Ornements, oh and she is naked....

Me and mom voulnterd to bell ring every Friday. Today was are fist day doing it, it was alot of fun.

Yesterday Missy helped mom make ornements for the 5 nursing homes they are going to go to. Mom is going to hand out ornements and Missy is going to be giving some loveing to the nursing home residents.

OH AND MISSY IS NAKED! Mom chould it get her in to are normal groomer and took her to someone else this one time. She told her to leave her ears and face. But she did it, it was all gone, every last hair, mom wanted to cry.

She told Missy it whould grow back though and she was still very pretty!

But about the Bell ringing, mom put a jacket on me so I whould it get cold. And we greeted everyone and rang the bell, and thanked everyone for donateing.

Everyone thought I was just the cutest thing ever. Mom actully had one person ask if I was for sale! Can you belive that, mom whould never have done that though. But it was lots of fun and I can't wait to do it again.