Today I’m showing Part 2 of the Ask Dr V series. I believe, though I haven’t checked it against the itinerary, that I should be on my way to the Ngorongoro Crater as we speak. Unless a chimp shoved me off the mountain earlier in the week, in which case these pre-published videos will be on a whole new level of macabre.
Which, by the way, my shade would find utterly hysterical.
Before I left, I spent a few minutes answering some of the great questions you submitted for the Ask Dr. V segments. I was on my way to a PTA meeting and had a few minutes to kill, so I figured why not. This was way more interesting, by the way.
Do you have a clear understanding with your petsitters or boarding facilities when you leave on a trip? Would you want them to make that call for you?
With our surf lesson postponed until today, I didn’t want to waste this week doing no preparation at all with Brody. So we practiced getting acclimated to the board at home and in the pool.
I’m not a surfer myself, so I got on the board to get a feel for the balance involved. It’s quite a lot of work. With practice, I’m sure we’ll both improve, but in the meantime, I got him to sit on it for a few minutes and that alone is pretty cool.
Hope you like Part 2 of Hang 20!
It’s a new day, the sun is shining, and this blog is up and running! YES!
I can’t think of a happier way to celebrate than to talk about our participation in the upcoming Surf Dog Surf-a-thon on September 11th. As you know, Brody and I have given surfing a shot a couple of times, but it’s been very casual.
So when Eukanuba asked if we would be interested in being sponsored by them to participate, I said “Heck yes!” and then, “But only if you don’t have any performance expectations.” (more…)
We were a pretty tech-heavy crew in Peru with the April Amazon Cares trip. One of the items I packed was a Flip camera, which unfortunately chose to poop out entirely about one week into the trip. For the first half, though, it was a cool camera to have since I could set it up on a tripod and just film a half hour of activity.
I put together about 40 minutes of footage from 2 clinics the first week in Iquitos. I then sped up the footage so you can see all of this in two minutes’ worth of video, which once I actually started talking during the voice over wasn’t nearly enough time for someone as chatty as me to say all I could say, but that’s OK.
When we watched it in Peru we thought this view of things was pretty interesting. I hope you do too!
We now interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging to bring you the long awaited infamous CAT LITTER EATING POST.
I ate cat litter.
I made up recipes.
I filmed it on video since Ustream wouldn’t work. In hi def (ugh)
I had to edit it because YouTube won’t load anything over 10 minutes. It still needs more editing, but that will take several days.
I even added a jingle. A JINGLE! If that isn’t worth a couple bucks donation I don’t know what else to do. I am too old to go for naked blogging so this is the best it gets, guys.
Thank you to Drew and World’s Best for the raw ingredients and the support!!
I just posted two really kind of depressing posts, didn’t I? Well, how about we lighten it up a little with a continuing recap of the BlogPaws event. The mood brightened considerably after the morning keynote.
After that experience, I slunk into the next session with notebook at the ready. First was “Building your Brand and Platform Through Blogging” with Michele Miller of WonderBranding and pet lifestyle expert Charlotte Reed.
They were great. I took notes about funneling and branding to women and all of that, but what I remember most is Charlotte’s incredible memory and ability to speak to a person, ascertain their needs, look across the room and say, “You need to hook up with Jennifer over there; she blogs for Richmond’s dog scene.” It was pretty awe-inspiring. I am terribly shy (I really am!) so I am always impressed with anyone who can walk in and own a room.
Then I sat in on Tracie Hotcher, author of the Cat Bible and the Dog Bible and Penny Sansevieri of Author Marketing Experts for “Book Publishing in a Digital World.” Tracie begged, nay, implored all of us wide-eyed aspiring authors to for the love of all that is good in this world not pen a “I didn’t save my dog, my dog saved me” memoir which was of course the book I was going to write, since that is what dog lovers do. “Emmett and Me” was the working title, that or maybe “My Dog Emmett”.
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