An Amateur's Musings on Dogs and Their People
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2011
I held back a little BlogPaws swag for a later giveaway. This is for all the ladies (and gentlemen) who appreciate a little beefcake with their Animal Rescue. You can win the 6 Pack 9 Lives Calendar Do you appreciate a guy who’s tough enough to be tender? Then I have the calendar for you. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2011
Two Little Cavaliers and Pamper Yourself in Pink have organized a Social Media Event in which you just might win a cash prize to share with your favorite animal charity. If you win, you will receive a $112 Cash Prize for yourself via Paypal and $213 will directly to the charity of your choice! All [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2011
It’s holiday time. When thoughts turn to Christmas balls, rum balls, and puppy balls. Or at least my thoughts do. Scooter gets a neuter. For nearly two weeks, I’ve been keeping a foster puppy from the Tompkins County SPCA. Our days have been exhausting, frustrating, and very, very fun. But tomorrow it comes to an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2011
Have you ever entered a 50/50 raffle? Everyone chips in a few dollars and a name is drawn from a hat. The money collected is split between one of the entrants and a charity. Promote, have fun, and help animals. Felissa Hadas over at Two Little Cavaliers is hosting a fun, social media version of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2011
While we’re waiting to receive the good news that Mel Freer’s missing foster dog, Lady, has been found, I thought I’d post a few links to happy ending stories. These aren’t dramatic stories about dogs who scale mountains and swim oceans to return to their families. They are just small, every day triumphs in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2011
Something Wagging This Way Comes is honored to be a stop on the Weight Loss With a Wag Book Tour. Author Peggy Frezon has recently published Dieting with My Dog, the true story of how she and her dog, Kelly, slimmed down together. Today Peggy’s stopping by to answer the burning questions we all want [...]
Posted in Reflections, The Puppiness Project, Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2011
Gretchen Rubin wrote in The Happiness Project about the year she spent “test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happy.” The Puppiness Project is my attempt to learn the same from Honey, my Golden Retriever. If you read enough dog blogs, you discover that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2011
Building a Better Blog Over at the BlogPaws Community, Dawn Miklich is hosting the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Challenge. With only one task assigned, it’s probably not too late to join. Come on in, the water’s fine. Unfortunately for me, the first task is one I find really tough–writing an elevator speech [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2011
I was gratified to see how many people entered my contest and told me why their dog(s) deserved to win. I wish I had a big bag o’swag for everyone who entered. The Winner of the Small-Medium Dog Swag Bag is Barb of the Sassy & Ginger Chronicles (and Chili Too!) Barb’s blog is new [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2011
In Honey’s First Peek at BlogPaws, I published this picture of my sweet girl posing with two enormous bags of ambivalence and tortured ethics–some people call it swag. I call it neuroses-inducing, plastic cr*p made by Chinese workers being paid pennies. There were some notable exceptions–which will be shortly on their way to some lucky winners. [...]
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