Tivi Has A Home

Tivoli has a forever home at last!

Remember Tivi? We posted on him on March 1. He is a 7 1/2 year old neutered Shar Pei/Pitbull mix that was picked up after being horribly abused and burned.  He lived at a shelter in Oregon since June 2008 getting lots of loving but waiting on a home of his own. Tivi is so cute we just want to reach out and hug him.

You can watch the introductory video done by a local station in the shelter's area by clicking on our original Tivi post here.

Tivi's human Jon has a Tivi photo blog at tumblr. We hope you will stop by to view the photos of his homecoming and first days there. For those of us who have a home, it's really exciting to see a special dog like Tivi finally get one too.

We don't see any way to leave a comment on tumblr. But Jon does check Tivi's Facebook page "Tivi has been ADOPTED!!!"

Have a purring and tail wagging day.

PS - Blogger is still canceling our scheduled posts. Anyone else using the new post editor? Or just having the same problem?

Happy Easter 2010

Happy Easter!

We hope you will all have a special day with family and loved ones. And most of all, we hope that each of you that celebrate Easter will reflect on the spiritual significance of the day. 

We are going to spend some quiet time tomorrow so we're posting this early.

If you aren't already aware, the blogosphere's Zoolatry Human's mother passed away Friday. We send condolences to Ann and her extended family.  Please stop by Zoolatry to leave a comment and for the link to the beautiful memorial page she has made for her mother.

And if you can spare a moment, we hope you will pop over to visit Pet Blogger Support Saturday . The Funny Farmers are the featured blog this week.

Romeo and Awards

Romeo is having another National Hairball Awareness Day promotion! They are accepting a few more kitties to help display a badge throughout April. For every badge posted, FURminator will donate a tool and cash donation to Romeo's May FURPOWER organization. You will also receive a tool to either keep for yourself or use as a giveaway on your blog. He is accepting cat bloggers into the promotion through Wednesday April 7.







Romeo is also participating in Cats Against Clay.  Cat bloggers wanting to participate in this fun  would display this badge through April and May.  Romeo will be accepting cat bloggers into this campaign for the next two weeks.







We have been given a couple of awards recently and we need to post them before we lose them again. Tut, tut, Jan is moving everything around on our her computer and we can't find anything. Actually, neither can she.




We got this award from the Kool Kittie Krew. Thanks, all of you, for such a beautiful award.
 

Noll's Nip was correct. We have gotten the Sunshine Award before but we're still thankful they gave it to us now.







And we were tagged by Old Kitty's blog. Old Kitty recently went to the bridge but there's a very happy and grateful new kitty named Charlie who needed a home and got one that lives there now. 

We started this post so long ago we've forgotten what the tag was and we have to go now. Blogger was having epileptic fits and wouldn't let us do a post, so we're way behind schedule. But we wanted to be sure to thank Kook Kitty Krew, Noll's Nip and Charlie of Old Kitty's blog for thinking of us.

Biggie and Roxy

Hi, it's finally my turn to do a post. I'm Cotton, the oldest furry here since Crystal left for the bridge.. I didn't realize what a responsibility it is to be the oldest. Or how hard it is to type. This makes me appreciate Percy a lot more. He has always done most of our typing.

Today we all want to introduct youz do .... sorry, I'm still a hunt and peck typist.  I'll have to slow down.

Today we all want to introduce you to a non-profit organization started in 2006 in Durham, NC by Amanda Arrington and a handful of volunteers. It's called the Coalition to Unchain Dogs.  Aside from their obvious goal of releasing dogs from living on the end of a chain, they --

Build free fences for people who chain their dogs.
Educate the community about the detrimental effects of chaining on both the dog and the community.
Help groups around the country to start free-fencing programs and to lobby for legislation to help chained dogs.
Lobby for legislation which disallows or severely restricts tethering of dogs.
Provide free spay/neuter for every dog they build a fence for.

The group covers a larger area of NC now and encourages others across the country to work toward local legislation to release dogs from chains and to start a similar volunteer program to help owners who can't afford fencing.

There are a number of slide shows of dogs they have helped, but we decided on this video of Biggie and Roxy, now neutered and spayed -- respectively -- so they won't have any more litters.they just look so happy to be free, don't they!

Note:  If the video area goes white and reloads a time or two, hang with it. If they don't fix these new blogger templates, we're going to take an axe to this one! 



If the video doesn't play, click here.

You can learn more about the Coalition to Unchain Dogs by visiting their website.