Today’s Animal Shelter Appreciation Winner!...

The Knitter Extraordinaire

As you all know, I’ve teamed up with Big Paw Designs and Peoplepets.com to encourage everyone to find ways to celebrate our local rescues and shelters and to let them know how much we love and appreciate all they do! So do anything you can – no matter how big or small – to show them you care.

Hmmm...feels cozy.

Jessi Sensabaugh of Lynchburg, VA is hand-knitting soft comfy pet beds for A Place to Bark in Portland, TN. Jessi, who is cat staff to Kitty and Tripsie, says she is going to send along food and other supplies as well.

What a wonderful way to give! I am sure those sweet animals will appreciate cozy little hand knit beds and they are sure to be very popular nap spots! Pugsley and I would definitely fight over who would get the knitted bed!

What are YOU doing this week to appreciate your shelter? Send your story to me at romeo@romeothecat.com, along with a photo, and you might be featured too! Every day, we’re selecting a winner to win a Rescue Mom or Rescue Dad car magnet or sticker, courtesy of Big Paw Designs.

Today’s Shelter Appreciation Day Winner...

Bubba naps (left) while Pinkerton takes a rest from playing with shoestrings!

I’ve teamed up with Big Paw Designs and Peoplepets.com to encourage everyone to celebrate our local rescues and shelters and let them know how much we love and appreciate all they do! So do anything you can – no matter how big or small – to show them you care.

Artist Patrice De Avila of Portland, Oregon, mom to Bubba, Pinkerton and Loki, is donating artwork to the Harlequin Haven Great Dane Rescue to sell or auction as a fundraiser.

She is also donating the design and printing costs of business cards to Persian and Himalayan Cat Rescue, the organization that rescued Bubba and Pinkerton.

Patrice has pledged to spend the week educating friends and family about shelters and rescues and everything they do for the animals – and for us all!

Finally, Patrice is extremely generous and donates to animal rescue on the 5th and 20th of every month. This month she said she’ll donate double on the 5th in honor of this special week.

Wow! Those are some wonderful things to do and great ideas for everyone to consider.

What are YOU doing this week to appreciate your shelter? Send your story to me at romeo@romeothecat.com, along with a photo, and you might be featured too! Every day, we’re selecting a winner to win a Rescue Mom or Rescue Dad car magnet or sticker, courtesy of Big Paw Designs.

Today’s Shelter Appreciation Winner – ...

Dr. V.

As most of you know, I’ve teamed up with Big Paw Designs and Peoplepets.com to encourage everyone to celebrate our local rescues and shelters let them know how much we love and appreciate all they do! So do anything you can – no matter how big or small – to show them you care.

We’ll be featuring your stories of kindness and giving here, at the Big Paw Designs Blog and on Peoplepets.com.

Wow! You guys are amazing. I cannot believe all of the wonderful things you’re doing to support and appreciate your local shelters – from delivering dog food to blankets to fostering. AH-MAZING, I tell you!

Today’s featured “do-gooder” is Dr. V., a veterinarian in sunny San Diego, California who blogs at Pawcurious . She has pledged to do a 24-hour Blogathon this weekend, from Friday evening until Saturday afternoon. Proceeds from the event will benefit her local shelter, the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA.

She’s going to do one blog post an hour and her sponsors and donors will be eligible to win fun prizes throughout the event. Her trusty “assistant,” Brody, will be there too. And, the best news is she’s a very

Dr. V.'s muse, Brody

So mark your calendars and go support Dr. V. this weekend!

What are YOU doing this week to appreciate your shelter? Send your story to me at romeo@romeothecat.com, along with a photo, and you might be featured too! Every day, we’re selecting a winner to win a Rescue Mom or Rescue Dad car magnet or sticker, courtesy of Big Paw Designs

Super Excited to Share...

I am so happy to announce a fun (and worthwhile!) event that my friends at Big Paw Designs and I have cooked up.

Next week, November 1-7, is National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week. Big Paw Designs, Pugsley and I are asking all of YOU to show your local shelter or rescue how much you appreciate them by donating your time, money, support or goods. It can be as simple as donating a bag of dog food, taking them your extra old towels or playing with kittens for an hour. The point is to do something. Many of you do things on a regular basis anyway so tell us about what you do to support them and that certainly counts too.

We all know the wonderful people who work and volunteer at shelters work their tails off day in and day out. We often take them for granted so let’s show them our appreciation!

Our challenge to you is to go do something between now and November 7th and then email us about it. We’ll feature all of your good deeds every day here and on the Big Paw Designs blog and maybe some other places as well (we’ll let you know where; could be exciting!)

And, in addition to featuring you, all submissions will be entered into a drawing for your choice of a Rescue Mom or Rescue Dad car magnet or sticker, courtesy of Big Paw Designs. We’ll choose a new winner every day!

Imagine what we can all do if we each do a little bit. We are so excited to feature all of your wonderful activities. My friend Bailey the Bichon did something similar for her birthday last year – her requested gift was that everyone do something nice for their local shelters. It was a great birthday hit. And very worthwhile.

Go Shelters! Go Rescues, Go YOU!

xoxo