So many pet crushes, so little time.
Subaru Diane suggested a pet calendar update – what a great idea!
Calendar Orders
We are going with Cafe Press again this year. They raised the cost to us, and you guys swore a blood oath that you wouldn’t mind if we raised the price, so calendars will be $27 each this year. We have a Calendar A and a Calendar B again this year.
Availability
We’re sticking with the December 1 goal again this year as the first day to order calendars. They usually go out within a day or two after ordering.
Mock-ups
Hoping the mock-ups will be done by Monday, 11/29.
Verifying Your Info
I hope to be able to put up the verification links in the sidebar by Friday 11/26. Saturday 11/27 at the very latest. That is your chance to correct names that are misspelled, check to make sure that all your pets are indeed in a single calendar, make sure we have a heart if you have lost your beloved pet, and that there isn’t a heart if you are still together.
Organizing The Pet Photos
Pet photos are organized into individual months and then into Calendar A and Calendar B for each months. This is where we are now, and we are about halfway there.
Update on the Pet Rescue
An update from the pet rescue will go up soon – I asked them for an update so we can all see how our calendar dollars and donations are being put to good use! I have received the info from the pet rescue folks… but I haven’t had a chance to put the post together yet.
What am I forgetting?
SiubhanDuinne
Thank you, WG! This is a great help with planning. I can’t wait to see this year’s offerings.
Kalakal
That Bassett is off the scale cute
WaterGirl
@Kalakal: He really is. There are some great pics in the calendar.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kalakal:
Back in the 1950s there was a TV sitcom called The People’s Choice, starring Jackie Cooper. It featured a Bassett hound named Cleo who offered up her thoughts — zingers and mordant commentary — in every episode. Might have been my introduction to the breed.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne: I had a book based on it, and my brother taught me to read from it.
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
What a fun memory!
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes. I wish I had that book! Cleo was dressed up in various costumes. The one I remember the best is she’s dressed as an old-time movie director. So the first words I ever read were “Lights — camera — action!”
raven
So my wife’s local pet rescue stole the idea and the process was just as screwy as this one was!!! Here’s the cover.
zhena gogolia
@raven: Cuties!
WaterGirl
@raven: So what’s screwy about our process? I thought i had it pretty streamlined.
sab
So we got behind on errands today. All the kids got their Turkyday dinner from the grocery. So we didn’t euthanize the cocker. I think this is a good thing. We have been watching his diet to protect his kidneys. Now he can eat whatever he wants in his last few days.
Sounds heartless but it isn’t. Love the little guy but he is in pain
ETA We weren’t emotionally up to killing two loved pets back to back. Still crying about Mac.
raven
@WaterGirl: Just extending the deadline and ha.ving to confirm pics and matching the names. The boolebark group had the same issues.
raven
@sab: Aw lil dude.
sab
@raven: He still misses my late uncle. We love him, but he was a one owner dog.
WaterGirl
@raven: Ah, yes. I had forgotten I had extended the deadline. But I thought that would be seen as a good thing, not making it more complicated.
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raven
@WaterGirl: relax, it’s all fine
sab
Watergirl is amazing. How do you cheerfully put up with us?
HinTN
@raven: That cover is hilarious.
sab
@HinTN: I agree. Nothing today should make me laugh, but that cover did.
sab
My husband is heating up our pre-prepared thanksgiving dinner. I don’t know why he wants to do it now. Following the grocery instructions. This might be interesting. I might become superfluous.
raven
@sab: Last year we had a 20 year old doggie on the cover!
sab
I don’t know why people think bassetts look sad. That bassett looks shamelessly begging to me. But we had a bassett in my childhood.
Ruckus
@sab:
I agree, that’s begging face.
RedDirtGirl
Since I didn’t meet my dog Nola until last Monday, I couldn’t get her picture into this year’s calendar. But I can’t wait to send it in for next year’s edition!
WaterGirl
@RedDirtGirl: We can sneak her in. But you have to get me the photo today or tomorrow. Send me email and I’ll send you the upload link.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
Shit. I guess it’s too late to send in my snapshots this year…
eachother
I’ve ruined Katie. It was so easy. She is over 8 and had never been given or ever had, that I know of, had ice cream. I thought she should taste ice cream so I gave her a taste.
What a polite girl she was. Never begged closer than lying a discrete distance on the floor sending discrete eye messages.
A taste of the frozen elixir changed her boldness and position. One taste and every polite limit has been stretched. She comes at the sound of the wrapper and lets her nose boldly go where no nose has gone before.
One taste!
AJ
The real question is – will the calendar week begin on Sunday, like a bunch of silly people, or be ‘correct’ and begin on Monday, as all right-thinking people would agree?
WaterGirl
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.):
EVERYONE
Anyone can send me an email message I can send a link to upload your photos.
Your photos have to be uploaded by 4pm Eastern in order to be included.
Your email message must include:
your nym
the names of all your pets
whether any of them need a heart because they are gone :-(
WaterGirl
@eachother: “The first one’s free, and then you’re hooked.”