National Shelter Appreciation Week!

by | Sunday | November 1, 2009 | 31 comments

It’s National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week! November 1-7 marks a week to honor the people who do so much for some of our most vulnerable animal friends. It is a tough and often thankless job.

Romeo, the wonderful cat fundraiser extraordinaire over at Romeothecat and founder of the pawparty on Twitter, has issued a challenge: do something. Anything.

So, I’m trying to come up with ideas. I was mulling a Brody calendar (or even better, a calendar of multiple pets we’ve come to love) but I don’t know if I could get that together in time for this event. The other idea is to do a blogathon- I commit to staying up for 24 hours and doing one post an hour, becoming less and less coherent as it continues. It’s like the jogathon from elementary school, except sedentary.

What do you guys think? Anyone up for this? Would I be stuck hitting my parents up to sponsor me just like in junior high? Any other animal loving bloggers (cough cough) want to make this a PARTY and do it too?

don’t make this one of those crickets chirping posts! I’ll make it worth your while if I get enough sponsors. Prizes! Bad poetry! Your burning questions answered! Brody pics on demand!

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  • http://twitter.com/AboutVetMed AboutVetMed

    I’m in! :)

    Kudos Dr V and to my pal Romeo the Cat (Pugsley, too!) for lighting a fire about the topic of shelter awareness.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Thank you for all your help!!

      • http://twitter.com/AboutVetMed AboutVetMed

        This is exciting – glad to be a part of this! :-D

  • marlene

    looking for a second baby soon…I’m all for a shelter dog!

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      That would be the best way of all to honor this week!

  • Lisa

    I like the blog idea — I’ll sponsor you! I love your entries anyway so the thought of reading ones that become less and less coherent with bad poetry included sounds awesome! :-) Gotta deliver on the Brody pics too, though – that would be one of my conditions for sponsorship…

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      OK, I’ll keep up my end of the bargain if you keep up yours! I’ll even do requests if you manage to convince me.

      It can be like those naughty sites where you pay women to pose for the camera, except G rated. :p

  • Gayle

    I think the blogathon is a great idea. Shelters rock!

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      They sure do!

  • Darci

    All about the blogathon…I agree with Lisa though, Brody pics are a MUST!!!

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      OK!

  • Tonya

    I’m in! Brody pics and incoherent posts are great incentives!

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Yaay! Thank you!

  • http://www.biscuitsbylambchop.com Annette Frey

    I’d love to hear more about the blogathon idea. You’d blog every hour and give away prizes to commenters every hour??

    At the very least I would be happy to donate dog treats to the prize pool! But maybe I can do more, depending on how this evolves. We should talk.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      I would blog every hour. People can sponsor just a flat amount or per post. I haven’t figured out how I’m going to work that but I assume I’ll ask people to donate directly to the shelter I’m blogging for, but that will work itself out.

      I’ll give away as many prizes as I have pledged to sponsors based on arbitrary designations I come up with at 2 am. :)

  • http://www.biscuitsbylambchop.com Annette Frey

    I’ll definitely donate treats. I have another idea. Do you have chat capability here? Maybe you can do a LIVE chat to kick off the blagathon. May bring many more people to the table. I would be happy to M.C., maybe with someone from a shelter participating too (have someone in mind who would probably be on board). I can recommend a free Chat platform if you don’t have that capability here.

    • Dr v

      That’s a great idea. I don’t think I have chat enabled…would have to be mac compatible…
      Guests are awesome! The more the merrier! I love it!

  • http://www.calmingcollars.com Deb Mendez

    Coming out of lurk mode to help the shelters! I’ll donate some Calming Collars if you’d like to use them as prizes. Just email me and we can work out the details.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      That would be amaziing! I’ll e-mail you soon.

  • http://www.biscuitsbylambchop.com Annette Frey

    If you want to e-mail me I can tell you more about the chat platform I use (SavorChat). It’s online so is Mac compatible (I use Mac too). There is a free version I use but if you want to have it branded and look like your blog site, that’s another option (don’t know that cost but probably not a lot). My e-mail is annette@biscuitsbylambchop.com.

  • Lisa

    Can’t wait to hear the details. I’ll contribute $5 for every Brody pic (accompanied by a story or creative caption) up to $50. Wish I could do more…

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      That is AWESOME! Thank you! I’m really going to have to throw down then. :D

  • http://www.romeothecat.com Romeo the Cat

    You guys, THIS IS AMAZING! I love it. xoxo

  • http://www.ilovedogs.com/ Martha

    We can sponsor some yummy peanut butter flavored canine multivitamins. Let me know if you’re interested!

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      That would be great! Thank you!

  • Georgia Jewel

    I’m in…

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Hooray! Thank you!

  • http://annora.wordpress.com/ Tassia

    You have my support, Dr. V! :)

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Thank you soooo much!!

  • Boodlepup

    Great idea and I will gladly make a donation.

  • http://www.animeals.com Karyn Moltzen

    This is a great idea . . . I was wondering if you might mention another great shelter, AniMeals? We are a no kill adoption center and animal food bank in Missoula, MT. We have so many animals right now and need all the help we can get! Thanks.