International Box Day 2011

Today is International Box Day.  It used to be International Cat in a Box Day since cats are known for usurping boxes to play in, but now it includes dogs or other furries in a box. We don't have a photo of Buddy in a box, but we do have one of him eating a box. 

This is Cotton back in March when the house was still cold. Jan emptied a box and Cotton decided it would make excellent lodging and moved into it for a week or two. So Jan put the hairy blankie Peggy made in the box for warmth and comfort.

Happy Int'l Box Day!

Percy and Bo Regards

Hey, Percy, here. While we're waiting for Jan to share a taste of whippie cream (as Puddles of 3 Doxies calls it), I thought I'd do a review on Bo Regards.

We're a little late with this, but we - I mean, Jan can't figure out how to hang the thing. The company hasn't helped with any ideas and the only person we can think of who might know the answer hasn't responded to our email.

Mark and Debbi Rath and Else Cunningham started Bo Regards to help pet owners prepare for an emergency, such as fire, weather or medical. Letting emergency personnel know there is a pet (or pets) in the house could save your pet's life. Many a pet has been lost when police and ambulance crew arrived and left a door open for the frightened animal to escape.  And pets often hide during a fire.

They sell Fire Safety Plaques to alert emergency personnel there are pets in the home. They come in burnished copper, burnished brass and burnished nickel.  You can also order a reflective sticker.

We thought these plaques a neat idea and chose burnished copper. However, when it arrived, we had - um, I mean, Jan had a problem figuring how to put it up. According to the site, "The plaque is designed to be easily mounted to the inside or outside of a wall or door; it can also be screwed onto the exterior of your home," so we - um, Jan figured it would be easy to install on a door or the gate of the dog pen.

But this is an O-L-D house and the only way it could be mounted on a door would be on the bottom half of either the front or back door. Well, who's going to notice it down there? If the holes were centered one top and one bottom instead of side to side, she might be able to hang it on the top half of a door, but she'd prefer not to try it.  Hanging it on the exterior wall is not an option since it would not endear us to the landlord.

So, dog pen gate it was. Except how does one hang a plaque on a chain link fence? She tried twists from bread bags but the plaque was too wide or not wide enough, depending on how one views the problem, to hang securely. It was impossible to secure it safely and any passerby could just help himself to the plaque by untying the twists - if a wind didn't blow it off first.

Sorry for the photo. The plaque is much nicer looking than this, but Jan had to stand under a shade tree looking into sunlight. Notice the twist ties? That's the tightest she could manage.

We think the plaque is a good idea; however, we would like to suggest to the company they offer more than one placement for the hanging holes. Surely there are other potential customers who would have a problem safely hanging the plaque on their own door or gate. Jan would have liked one hole in each of the four corners for the gate.

You can find fire safety tips and more information on these plaques by visiting Bo Regards, Inc.

At this time, the plaque couldn't help any of us since Jan couldn't hang it and it's sitting in its box.  So, if any of you are not handyhuman impaired and have a suggestion for how Jan could hang the plaque on the gate, let us know.  She knows there is something used to repair chain link fencing when any of the original "tiedowns" (?) break, but doesn't know what it's called or where it's sold.  She knows this much because Buddy found such a place in one of the old panels and tried to escape a while back.  Jan, a less than brilliant handyhuman, used shoelaces to hold the panel together until a nice man fixed it for her. 


We are not associated with Bo Regards and were not paid for this review, but a plaque was provided for testing.

Lulu, Lolly, Willyum and Molly

Hey, Buddy here, with some good and bad news..

We keep forgetting to mention our old friends Lulu and Lolly are blogging again after a time away. Unfortunately, it's now Lulu, Willyum & Molly and "angel" Lolly. We were aware Lolly was ill but hoped for a better outcome. We're sad for her loss. Her family misses her.

If you remember Lulu and Lolly, stop by their blog and say hello. If you've never met them before, stop by their blog and say hello, nice to meet you. We enjoy their posts and sense of humor. .   

It's a bit confusing, though, how they could ask for guppies for Christmas and Santa bring them puppies.  If Santa is getting senile, I will gladly volunteer to drop down chimneys to deliver packages if Jan will let me eat all the cookies and drink all the glasses of milk left for Santa.

Uh, Jan heard me mumbling as I type and yelled, NO WAY!  You can not have all that sugar and milk!  I can't imagine why she thinks they would give me diaree ... diarie ... the poops.

Our Gift to Jan

Hey, Cameron here. While Jan is busy elsewhere, I thought I'd borrow the computer to update you on yesterday's post. First, thanks to all our friends who sent a birthday message to Jan. She appreciated the nice messages, including the ones that hoped her desire for strawberries and whipped cream would be fulfilled. She was hopeful the Zoolatry girls would figure out a way to teleport some over here, but, alas, their teleport was down.

Our gift to her was that we were perfect furries for the day. Um, sort of perfect. Uh, maybe not quite. But we didn't ... Unfortunately we did .... Well, guess we should admit we were almost perfect furries yesterday. Jan was pleased with us, so maybe she didn't notice ... Never mind. We wouldn't want to bring anything she missed to her attention.

She did get to lunch with a friend earlier in the week. When the friend mentioned "birthday," the waitress returned to plop a hat on Jan's head. It was heavy! Can you guess what kind of restaurant they visited?

Yep, you guessed correctly - Chinese. :)

Sorry, I mean Mexican. I added the sunglasses so Jan won't get upset with me for posting her picture.

Jan walked to Ingles yesterday to buy a special food for Buddy. We hoped she would return with some whipped cream and strawberries, so we might have a taste of the cream. But she said they aren't in our budget, so she just came back with carrots and dog food. We were disappointed. We've never tasted whipped cream but other blogging furries say it's delicious.

Then Jan got a surprise. Her friend read our post yesterday and just before the booming storm hit, the friend's husband dropped off a special treat. In no time, Jan had her dinner prepared and barely waited long enough to snap a picture.

Yep, that's Jan's dinner. A plate with 3 thin slices of pound cake, fresh strawberries and whipped cream made with real cream. It looked a lot yummier in person but Jan was more interested in eating it than staging a photograph.

Since there's more in the fridge, we're hoping we'll each get a taste of the whipped cream today. Many thanks to the couple who provided the special "feast."

KC's birthday was Sunday too and her mom said she got a can of Evo's Duck Cat Food, which KC enjoyed but her mom thinks smells terrible. Maybe we should have gotten Jan a can for her birthday. It would be good protein. And surely she'd share that with us?

Have to run. The fridge door was just opened. I'm hoping Jan is planning a whipped cream snack for us.