Wordless Wednesday

Hope For Paws at BlogPaws!

Eldad & Audrey Hagar

Most of my regular readers and pals know about Eldad and Audrey from Hope for Paws. Mom interviewed them at their home, helping me with an article about them for The Anipal Times in 2010. 

At that time, they had just rescued a now famous little blind dog named Fiona. You've probably seen her video. It's completely viral - tons of newpapers, magazines, and TV stations have picked it up and run with it the last few weeks. I'm such an insider - I had such a jump on Fiona's story, her video wasn't even ready in time to be included in the article - but I did talk about her!  ; ) 

Eldad, Audrey and Fiona

Eldad showed Mom a video he was editing of a little dog he'd just rescued. She didn't realize until he mentioned it halfway through, that the little blind dog in the video was sitting on her lap. If Fiona's video affects you, imagine watching it with a clean and happy, but still blind Fiona licking your face. 

I was Editor-in-Chief of The Anipal Times, and we organized a Twitter Party (#ATPawty) with Hope for Paws as its beneficiary. We raised over $2000 in 24 hours towards Fiona's eye surgery to restore her sight in one eye. Yay!

Now, as a Special Projects Manager at BlogPaws, I'm very excited to have arranged for Eldad and Audrey to be at this year's BlogPaws Conference in Salt Lake City in June!

Eldad will be joining My Favorite Pup Jasmine and Paige the Border Collie (and their moms) in a presentation about "The Power of YouTube."

Lauren Girard and Paige the Border Collie

My Fave Pup Jasmine and CJ Jackson

And this is just ONE session of One day. Check out the conference program for info on all the awesomeness that is this year's BlogPaws!

You won't have a better (certainly not a more fun) educational or networking opportunity if you're in any way involved or interested in animals, animal products, or pets in social media - or even if you just want to hang out with us wild and crazy animal lovers and meet all your online pals!

I'll even make it even easier for you -- > Use this code for a 20% discount on your BlogPaws registration: BlogPaws2012-Cokie

And you can bring your pets! 
It's a no brainer. See you there!

Cokie

Who's Got Giveaways!? I DO! =^..^=

I have 5 more weeks of Natural Balance sponsored Giveaways promoting Tillman the Skateboarding Bulldog's Animal Planet show, "Who Let the Dogs Out," which is sort of an "American Idol" for pets!

Tillman and his friends are searching every week for the most talented dog in America, and they have a reality TV team following them around, filming everything so we can watch! It's totally fun check your local listings for times in your area, Saturday mornings. 

Last week's winner @pepperpom

This week's Giveaway is for a set of Tillman and Rose toys AND 50 pounds of Natural Balance pet food! If you don't need the pet food, you can donate it to a friend or a No Kill shelter or rescue.  ; )

To enter, you just have to tell your friends to watch "Who Let The Dogs Out!" This is on the honor system, so leave a comment below with your email address or Twitter ID* telling me how you're spreading the word about "Who Let The Dogs Out" - on Twitter, Facebook, on your blog, by email, on the phone, etc.  ; ) 

That's it! A random blog will chosen to win. Contest ends at 11:59pm PDT Wed. Mar 28h. Winner will have 48 hours to respond, or I'll have to pick another winner. 

(*You have to leave your Twitter ID or your email address in the comment, even if you know I know it, to be entered!) 


If you win and you're outside the US or Canada, they'll send you the toys, but you'll need to donate the pet food to a friend in the US or Canada. 18 or over (like me). Void where prohibited.
Good Luck!

   Cokes

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Wordless Wednesday

Taken last week on my 18th birthday with Mom's Laker purple toenails. 

Don't forget to enter my weekly Natural Balance Giveaways and watch Tillman the Skateboarding Bulldog in his 'American Idol' for pets, "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT," on Animal Planet on Saturday mornings. 

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My 18th Birthday GiveAway!! =^..^=

This week I'm celebrating my 18th birthday! 

(I'm a '94 model Flamepoint Ragdoll.)

Mom's Patented Kitty Ear Massage

For this auspicious week, Natural Balance is letting me choose the Giveaway Prize open to all my Anipals!!

This is what I've got for you:

Stuffed Tillman and Rose Toys

A "Who Let The Dogs Out" T-Shirt

AND

A Tillman Skateboard 

(Guaranteed to make you a hero to your dog or the teenager of your choice!)

Check out a clip from this week's "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT"

To Enter:

1. Leave a comment below with your email address or Twitter ID - EVEN IF YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW IT (Mario & CathyKeisha)! MOL!

In your comment, please wish me a Happy Birthday (Ha!) and tell me who you would give the Tillman Skateboard to - or if you'd keep if for yourself.  ; )

That's the mandatory part.

Here's the optional part, which is not required, but which I would really appreciate if you would do:

1. Follow @TillmanSkates (and @cokiethecat!) on Twitter.

2. Tweet, Facebook, Blog or Email your friends to watch "Who Let the Dogs Out" on Animal Planet Saturday mornings - and you watch it, too!!

3. Tweet, Facebook, Blog, Email or Sky Write telling your friends to hang with Tillman on Twitter on Saturday mornings from 6-11am PDT (hashtag: #TillmanSkates) to talk about the show and possibly win prizes - Tillman is very generous with the prizes at his Twitter Viewing Pawties!

Contest open to all countries (yay!) but you have to be 18 or older (LIKE ME!) (Void where prohibited - wherever that is?)

That's it! A random blog will chosen to win. Contest ends at 11:59pm PDT Wed. Mar 21. Winner will have 48 hours to respond, or I'll have to pick another winner!

Good Luck!

Cokes

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Thankful Thursday Giveaway! 100 lbs of Natural Balance Pet Food!

Thankful Thursday is changing it's format for a while, but for a wonderful reason! My buddy Tillman is filming a new TV show for Animal Planet, called "Who Let The Dogs Out!" In my last post, I mentioned that he's going around America, looking for America's Most Talented Dog, which is awesome enough...

His sponsor, Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Pet Foods, is going to be doing more giveaways on my blog! Every week until April 19th, we'll have a new winner who'll receive 100 POUNDS of Natural Balance pet food!! That's a winner a week for 13 weeks!

Complete terms and conditions here.
Enter using the Rafflecopter form below.

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This post was sponsored by Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc.