Wordless Wednesday

"I am the Fabio of kittehs...Rrrr-RAWR!"

PFFFT! Silly Television!

What do you do when the cable channel changes their schedule on you just hours before the show starts?

We apologize for anyone who tried to watch Jingle All The Way last night so's they could play in our Treasure Hunt Contest...
Mommy kept checking to confirm and she saw the schedule on their web site go back & forth from 6 PM CST to 7:30 PM CST.

In the end,  Jingle All The Way did not air when we said it would on our bloggie, and we's sooo sorry about that! So...because of that, we're extending our contest through next weekend when both shows air again.

Straight from hallmarkchannel.com, here's the schedule for Friday December 2 (pleez don't change it again, Hallmark Channel! *kitteh smiles*):

6:00 PM	hoops&yoyo Ruin Christmas - When Hoops, Yoyo, and Piddles wait up to catch Santa in the act on Christmas Eve, disastrous consequences follow. Will Christmas or Santa ever be the same? Only if these comedic friends save the day.
6:30 PM	Jingle All the Way (2011) - A spirited Husky puppy looking for a home at a Christmas tree farm instantly bonds with a young boy visiting with his parents. Unable to keep him, the boy rides away, and the pup embarks on a snowy journey to find his friend again.

Thankful Thursday

Since today's Thanksgiving...and in just a few short weeks, I celebrate my "gotcha" day with Mother & Daddy...

I wanted to share all the things I'm thankful for.

A wonderful family (well, except for Faraday, sometimes)...
Food to eat, a warm place to sleep...
And a lovely back yard to play in.

*sigh* oh, okay and even my own purrsonal bodyguards who shadow me when I go out to keep me safe. *grudging look at Mother*

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Wordless Wednesday (cue "Jaws" theme...)

Backstory: Petfinder's Foster a Lonely Pet for the Holidays

Hi all! *wiggles pink toenails in hello*

I asked Mother if we could blog about Petfinder's "Foster a Lonely Pet for the Holidays" because it's very personal to me. You see, that's how I found my Forever Family! And Mother was excited to do it because she knows - and works with - the people who were instrumental in making this a great new national tradition!

It all began many years ago when a lawyer in suburban Kansas City wrote a bedtime story for his kids. It was about a special boy who heard his hometown shelter needed to find temporary homes for its animals over the holidays.

The story also told how his small act of kindness inspired and motivated an entire town to extend their peace and goodwill to animals that year, too! That man's name is Greg Kincaid, and his story, "A Dog Named Christmas," was first published 3 years ago this month.

Someone gave a copy of Mr. Kincaid's book to a really nice man that Mother works with - Brad Moore, president of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. He fell in love with it - first because it's an awesome story but also, Mother says, because it's a hometown story and we're big about supporting hometown talent!

Greg's book became Hallmark's 2009 Holiday Hall of Fame movie (and if you never got a chance to see it, set your recorders for Sunday December 4, because at 8 AM EST it's playing again on the Hallmark Channel).

But that's just the beginning of the story! Hallmark then partnered with CBS and Petfinder.com to launch a new program that winter, based on the concept in Greg's story: the idea to foster a lonely pet for the holidays.

This is a wonderful idea for several reasons. Not only would this make it easier for shelter workers to have a holiday of their own (fewer pets in the shelter = less time they need to work), but it also gives animals a few weeks away from the stresses of a shelter environment.

Did you know that there is such a thing as shelter stress and that it can weaken an animal's immune system?

Veterinary News wrote about shelter stress and its affects on cats in particular in an article this past July. They quoted Dr. Michael Moyer, President of the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), as saying that a shelter environment "means stress, and stress means relapse of latent viruses ... [and] supportive care for weeks in order to convalesce."
 
Please consider participating in this year's Petfinder's Foster a Lonely Pet for the Holidays program. You'll be giving a wonderful animal a few weeks' reprieve, lightening the load for your local shelter, and - who knows? You just might discover your foster friend is someone you just can't part with. (It can happen - just look at me! *giggle*)

Fabulous Fall!

*squee!* ooh I just LOVE Fall! All those lovely leaves to roll in! 

(and I *do* mean ROLL...!)

oh look! It's Allie's best side! *snicker*

(Almost) W_rdl_ss Wednesday

But Motherrrrr.......

When I said I wanted a roll in the hay, I meant it Literally!

Gee...what did you think I meant?