It’s another Furbulous Furiday and weez gunna be sharin’ another pawsumly adoptable kitty wiff ya’ today. It’s also Blog The Change day here in da Blogosphere. As wiff most of these things we see, mommy gets so busy makin’ notes to member we furget to grab da badge. But dat’s okay, we can still tell ya’ ‘bout it. Member meez challenge to you in meez New Year posty? Well weez been tryin’ to do dat ourselves this year by shariin’ kitties located in da Pauls Valley Oklahoma Animal Shelter. And of course we share all our furiends post wiff adoptable anipals. We have noticed more of our postys bein’ shared and we wanna fank you all from da bottom of our furry and human hearts. Now, let’s see who be visitin’ us today.
Well meowllo there Pudder. You sure are a beauty. Can you tell everypawdy a little about yourself?
Pudder: Y thank you girls for featuring me. And thank you for the compliment. I’m a polite adult girl here at the Pauls Valley Animal Shelter in Oklahoma. The shelter peeps say I’m about 5 years old give or take. I’ve had all my shots and the white coat folks say I can’t have any babies, which is good, cuz there’s so many kitties needing homes without adding to that number. I’m a dilute Tortie with long silky furs. A little brushing goes a long way to keeping the mats out of my furs, and I love it. It’s a great time to bond with my human. I get along well with kitties, doggies and kids of all ages. I’m calm and submissive but don’t want to be bullied. I had a home once with a human who loved me very much; she even took me to the groomers. But because of something called money problems I ended up here. I don’t understand what happened or why my human gave me away, because I’m very sweet and have a lot of love to give. I’m ready to start over with a new purrson. Do you girls think there’s someone out there that wants to take me home and spoil me and love me forever?
Yes Pudder we sure do. Thanks for stoppin’ by today. Sissy and me will be purrayin’ yous furever home comes soon. Pudder can be adopted fur a measly $50.00 to da right inside only home. You can find out more about her by callin’ da shelter at 405-238-1303. You know we can’t save them all, but ifin we can change da life fur one shelter kitty, we did good. Maybe you can’t adopt Pudder or any other anipal, but you can still be da change fur shelter anipals in your area. Volunteer, or check wiff your local shelter and/or rescue, they are always in need of supplies. Again me challenges you to be da change fur a shelter anipal today and everyday throughout this year. And fank you fur sharin’ Pudder and helpin’ to spread da word on this Furbulous Furiday. As we do every Furiday, weez joinin’ Rascal and Rocco fur da Pet Parade.
We be feelin’ really purretty today. It’s National Dress Up Your Pet Day and we just had to purrticipate. Bein’ Service Cats we offen go out wiff mommy. We are so fankful to awnty Jennifer and grand awnty Peggy fur our pawsum stroller; but just cuz we be zipped in dusn’t mean we don’t still need a harness and leash. We don’t always wear them, like when we go fur a stroll round our partment or sumfin’, but they’re in da storage compartment on da stroller just in case.
Last year mommy also discovered dat me is much calmer durin’ storms and fireworks wiff meez harness on. So sumtimes me wears it just round da house. Me luvs meez harness. And last year we got sum cute harness dresses from a furiend dat we really like. Mommy wuld luv to have more choices fur us, but even fur us, “clothes” ain’t cheap. MOL Mommy sez dusn’t seem to matter how much material goes into da makin’ of an outfit, they all be over purriced. Anyways, hope you enjoy our playin’ dress up fotos today. Me has to go now, mommy and me be workin’ on meez car fur da Cardwood Derby at Cat Scouts. See you soon.
Do you like to dress up? Or Duz your human like to dress you up? And fur da humans, do you dress up your fur babies? (We know this is a controversial subject among da cat peeps, but we think ifin da kitty likes to get dressed up it’s okay. We rarely wear hats, cuz we don’t really like things on our heads.)
Well as you can see by da title weez takin’ da Pet Blogger Challenge hosted by Go Pet Friendly. We had a lot of reflectin’ to do afur this post, so dat’s why weez getting’ in on da last day. While readin’ fru da questions we thought this was a gweat tool fur all bloggers to ask themselves maybe even a kupple times a year. You know it’s easy to get off track sumtimes and wiff life getting’ in da way, it’s hard to refocus on your own. So we plan to keep these questions close by and refer to them often to see whether or not weez meetin’ our goals. Now, let’s get on wiff da challenge.
1. How long have you been bloggin? And fur any new readers tell a little about your blog.
Our furst posty was February 18, 2014. Yep we’ll be celebratin’ our 2nd blogoversary soon. Meez blog was a happy accident. Sis Lexi and me are da latest of mommy’s Service Cats and boff of us are bottle raised rescues who have a story to tell. We learned real quick tho’ dat our daily services kuld get boring fur our readers as we purrform da same tasks everyday. So our blog is a lot of our everyday activities, mixed wiff reviews and everything dat goes along with havin’ cats in your life. There’s health, diet, fun, adventure and so much more covered in our blog posts.
2. What is the one thing accomplished in 2015, either on your blog or because of it, that made you most proud.
This one be really hard cuz we think da blog has been one of da bestest things dat has happened to us. Because of da bloggy we got to go to BlogPaws in Nashville. And sissy was so sick at da time, it was da kick in da furry behind she needed to bounce back. Me thinks da one thing we are most purroud of is havin’ all of you as readers, visitors and furiends. Ifin not fur da blog we wuldn’t have you. And in 2015 we added more of you to our family. Fur dat we will ever be grateful.
3. Which of your blog posts was your favorite and why? (include a link)
Well we wrote several educational posts this past year and are very purroud of all of them. Me thinks da ones we did ‘bout Sterile Cystitis are probably da ones we be most purroud of. We shined a light on a very serious illness in cats dat often go unnoticed, undiagnosed, and often cause da most twubble fur cats and their owners. You can read those here.
4. What is the one thing you’ve done in the past year that has brought more traffic to your blog?
Well the only thing we can see that brings people to our blog is commenting on others. We do have a lot of readers dat come from Facebook, but many don’t leave comments. We wish they wuld, cuz we so luv inneractin’ wiff our furiends.
5. Which of your blog posts got the most traffic this year? why do you think it was so popular?
Well our most pawpular post last year was sis Lexi and mommy tellin’ ‘bout her VET visit to find out what was wrong wiff her. This post revealed dat sis lexi had CKD/CRF and you can read it by clickin’ da link below. Now sum of ya’ have trubble readin’ da cat speak, but the post has mommy splainin’ in human speak what was done. As fur why it was our most pawpular posty? Well we like to fink it’s cuz so many luv us and care ‘bout what be happenin’ wiff us.
6. What is one blog you read religiously – other than your own – and what makes it such a good read?
Mee-Ow this is another hard question. We follow so many blogs and read a lot we don’t always comment on. And truth be told we try to read them all everyday whether we comment or not. Weez just not sure we kuld pick just one. We read sum fur fun and a daily laff like Easy’s blog. And sum fur adoptable kitties like Animal Shelter Volunteer Life and Brian’s Home; which we also read to keep up wiff all of them. And then…you see? We kuld go on and on, cuz every blog we follow is a gweat read or we wuldn’t be followin’ ‘em. We luv all our furiends regardless of where they are or what social media platfurm they use. We try to keep up wiff all of ya’.
7. What resources do you rely on to enhance your technical, writing, photography, social media or other skills that improve your blog?
Well we use da innernet of course. Google, Yahoo, Bing and several other search engines have become our bestest furiends since getting a catputer. But mommy also has a lot of books on carin’ fur cats dat she refurs to offen. And mommy was a VET tech, animal twainer and rescue volunteer fur many years, so she also draws on past sperience. Mommy is a bottomless pit when it comes to learnin’ and she tries to learn sumfin’ new everyday. As fur da fotography pawrt, well she’s tryin’. MOL
8. What is the best piece of advice you can give to other bloggers?
“Be True to Yourself!!! You can’t please everybody all the time.”
Dat’s purrobably da bestest advice we can give to anypawdy, blogger or not. As long as you’re bein’ true to who you are, you can’t really go wrong. And member, you can’t purrlease everypawdy all da time. We have used cat speak from da beginnin’, and have had an occasional complaint about it. So we have tried to make our writing and cat speak a bit easier to read, but we also have to stay true to who we started out as…cats in social media. And when we started duin’ reviews we determined to only share items we use or have tried ourselves. And no matter da outcome, we wuld always tell da truth. Your trust is very purrtant to us and we don’t want to lead you astray.
9. What is your vision for your blog in 2016? Do you have specific goals?
Well of course we wanna grow bigger this year. And we hope to post more adoptable kitties. We hope to get into a posting pattern so dat our readers will know when to expect a post from us. We also hope to educate more this year. Two years in and we really haven’t yet found our rhythm. Mommy is movin’ us closer and closer to a raw diet and we hope to share more ‘bout da advantages and disadvantages to raw feedin’. And of course we hope to continue to bring you lots of fun and adventure. And we so wanna go to BlogPaws again this year. We branched out and created a Zazzle store (which you can see by clickin’ da link under da foto below or in our sidebar) in the hopes of makin’ enuff money to pay our way. Weez learned dat might not actually happen as we don’t make a lot of money from da sales, but we can hope. And we hope to get our furst book written and published this year.
10. You have the attention of the Pet Blogging Community – is there one blogging challenge you would like help with or one aspect of your blog that you’d like input on?
We wuld purrobably say we need help wiff time management and growth. And we need to figger out what makes peeps share posts; specially when we share adoptable kitties. Da more they get shared da more likely it is they get adopted.
We think this challenge is a bit difficult and certainly makes one think. But retrospect is a good thing sometimes and like we sed, weez gunna be keepin’ these questions round fur a while to revisit offen. We hope we can learn from da past and move furward to a brighter and more fruitful year. Da one thing we are most happy ‘bout and purroud of is all of you. Thank you fur bein’ our furiends and visitin’ wiff us. Thanks fur your purrayers and kind words and fur just bein’ you.
Well meez been retrospective enuff fur one day so meez gotta go and play wiff sum nip toys and lighten up. It’s stormin’ out yet again, and playin’ takes meez mind off of it. MOL
Welkum to a furesh and fun filled Furiday. As purromissed me is gunna be featurin’ a pawsum and adoptable kitty; and showin’ off sum blooper fotos. Trust me we have a lot of those. MOL We hope to find a lot of ya’ jumpin’ on this blog hop band wagon this year. Dusn’t it sound like a lot of fun? C’mon, surely you or yous peeps take sum blooper fotos. Even purrfessionals have bloopers. Me kuld guarantee ya’ they wuld ifin they was fotograffin’ me. Mommy sez meez a camera hog who luvs to be fotograffed. But cuz me luvs it, me likes to stop duin’ whatever was so cute and caused da camera to come out in da furst place and pose or smooch da camera. Me tries to tell her dat you never know who might be seein’ dat foto. It kuld be mr. right, or sum big Hollywood purrducer. MOL
Today can’t be all bloopers. MOL
Anyways, we wuld like to introduce you to Kiki. She’s a purretty little black panfur girl at da Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Animal Shelter.
Hey there Kiki, how ya’ duin’?
Kiki: Meow girls, thanks for sharing me.
You know Kiki us older gals gotta stick togevver.
Can ya’ tell everypawdy a little about yous selff Kiki?
Kiki: Well Dezi, I’m a senior panther girl. I was born April 22 of 2000. I spent my life livin’ outside in a backyard. Now that I’m older I really do wanna live inside with a peep or peeps of my own. I’ve got some long white whiskers and the man in the white coat sed I didn’t have any diseases and can’t be havin’ any babies. I’m small and have big golden eyes. The peeps here at the shelter sed I can only be adopted to an inside only home. I’m sure happy about that. You know it gets cold outside and there’s lots of dangerous things in the dark. The shelter peeps are nice but I sure would like to have a home of my own with my own human to love. I know I’m getting’ on up there in years now and I’m not the sleek well kempt looker I used to be, but I still have a lot of love to give. And I really would like to be loved by somepawdy too. Girls, do ya’ reckon there’s somepawdy out there who could love me?
Kiki can be adopted from the Pauls Valley OK Animal Shelter.
Oh Kiki we just know there’s sumpawdy out there fur ya’. They just be waitin’ to take you home and spoil you rotten. Kiki can be adopted fur a mere $50.00. And you can find out more bout her and how to go ‘bout welkummin’ her into yous home by contactin’ da shelter at: 405-238-1303. You know in da rescue world little Kiki already has 2 strikes agsinst her; She’s black and a senior. But bein’ da savvy cats we are, we know there are lots of pawsum peeps dat wuld luv to have a little panfur girl fur their very own. Me and sissy sure hope she finds her furever soon. We hope you all will share and purray wiff us fur Kiki’s furever.
Now on wiff da bloopers hosted by da Lazy Pitbull. And as always, weez joinin’ Rascal and Rocco fur da Pet Parade. Me has to go now and make sum more blooper fotos. Sis Lexi and mommy be goin’ to da VET today, so keep ‘em in yous purrayers and weez’ll visit as soon as we can.
Me was on da move and big ole blur. MOLSis Lexi foto bombed me
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