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31 Jan 2013

Thursday Again! Yea! A New VBP Blog Hop!

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

I get really pretty excited when it’s time to start a NEW VBP Blog Hop Week.

I use VBP lots of times all week long. You will notice I use a “paw print” next to all my words I think of as VBP. I have placed the Paw Print on my side bar if you prefer to put that next to your VBP words instead of the initials “VBP”…just a thought…

Once again…purrlease grab the badge below and put it on your VBP post. Once you have PUBLISHED your post, come on back here and click on the blue linky face at the bottom of this post, and enter your PUBLISHED VBP post. That’s it…You will then be joined in our hop. You can also chose to do your VBP post over the next 6 days and STILL enter the hop!

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And you know by now, today is also the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop…sponsored by Pepi Smart Dog.

This is the really marvelous thing about VBP…I can DO BOTH!!! My Thankful Thursday post also has my VBP words. Hmmmm…that’s something else to be Thankful for…I can do both…

Now…I am ALSO making this post my contribution to The Society of Feline Gardeners…started by Miss Jonesie, a ladycat of renowned gardening knowledge . Jonesie can be found at Cory Cat Blog most days if she is not out in her garden.

This garden report is why I am thankful on this Thursday. I still have flowers, and green things…and we have lots and lots of finches at our feeders because they like to live here in the Winter. I am so thankful we still feed the birds and have pretty flowers to share with you all.

My garden has been floundering these last few weeks…we finally have had rain, very cold and even freezing snaps. So my garden is more brown than green right now.

But, I sent Mom out with our camera to grab some photos of what IS blooming and looking pretty right now…we have a lot of blooming Camellia shrubs…at least that is what we think they are…this one is so pretty…that bright pink petal looks fake, huh?

…this is one of the more mature blooms of that same plant…

…we have bright sort of coral/pink…

…and then we have very, very soft pink…

…we think these are Azaleas….

…and this one is sort of purple…

…and then we have two mystery type plants…we know this one is some kind of bulb flower coming up, we are excited to see what it is…

…and this is some kind of like grass, or ground cover…it is uncovered now after the gardener cut back all the over growth…who knew there were all these other plants????

Next Thursday I will show some other stuff we discovered in this yard once so much of it died off from cold snap and then the gardeners started to finally cut it back…Mouses!! We never knew what all was out there!!

Until my next Thursday Gardening Report to Jonesie…

Paw Pats, Savannah

REMEMBER THIS IS THE VBP BLOG HOP!! GRAB THE BADGE AND JOIN WITH THE LINKY

30 Jan 2013

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Not Wordless…Accepting Rumpydog’s Challenge

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

I am accepting…

The Rumpydog Animal Welfare Blogger Challenge!

Rumpy Dog and DeDe offered all paw bloggers a challenge, click here for their post about it. The Animal Welfare Blogger Challenge asks us to write a post about something we can do now, to change just one thing in our life, how we are living it today, that we know negatively affects animal welfare…one thing…hmmm…easy!

Well, maybe not…but we can all at least try.

Rumpy said:
“The idea behind this challenge is simple: A change in action is the result of a change in thinking, and this challenge is designed to make you think about what actions you take in your daily life that negatively impact animal welfare.”

First, Mom wants to tell the peep ladies who read my blog something that they may not know.

Mom: thanks Savvy, I won’t take up too much space. Almost 18 years ago I needed to be put on hormone replacement due to having a full hysterectomy. I thought ‘fine’…what are my options. One of those would have been a drug called premarin. I did my research on that drug and the others they suggested…no Google back then…so I consulted with my sister in law who is a Nurse Practitioner (almost at the level of a doctor in USA).

I learned that premarin was made from the urine of pregnant mares…yes…it means thousands of mares, horses folks, across the world were bred, and bred and bred so that their urine DURING pregnancy could be collected to make this drug. Shocking you say?! Then next ask “what becomes of all those foals??”

They are auctioned off, usually to meat packers …that is what I learned. I said 18 years ago…nope, nope and absolutely nope…give me a drug that is made from plants!! Not animals. I hope my choice all those years ago made the difference in some mare and/or foal’s lives. Here are some foals rescued from slaughter in Canada. Look at them, they are living breathing animals.

Click on this link to learn more from the ASPCA about this practice:
http://www.aspca.org/fight-animal-cruelty/equine-cruelty/premarin.aspx

Click on the following links for more information:
http://www.horsefund.org/pmu-fact-sheet.php
http://tuesdayshorse.wordpress.com/category/premarin-horses/

And, oh yeah…this is Savvy back again.

So, Mom and I read my very good furriend Easy’s blog today, click here, and he gave us more ideas about what we can do TODAY to keep on making a difference for animal welfare. His post motivated Mom to visit the PETA site Easy notes in his post…and she then went to her bathroom and tossed out, with my snoopervision, all the products she had that were on the “tested on animal” list. And those companies won’t see our business again: Redken hair shampoo and conditioner and anything made with the name “Olay”.

Purrlease…accept Rumpydog’s challenge…do a post about what action you will take NOW in your own personal life to improve animal welfare. Look in your mirror just like we did…

Paw Pats of Appreciation, Savannah and Mom Linda

Posted in Savannah's Life Experiences and tagged blog for animal welfare

28 Jan 2013

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Monday Meowsie News…

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

Gosh, where do I begin…I have been doing some kind of risky stuff lately…I know, I know…it amazes me too that I am still finding lots of new things to do…

First, I don’t go into Dad’s office, upstairs, when he is in it…I have my second potty pod in there and he has a window seat where he puts my night time snack…I do use my potty pod and get my snack when he isn’t in there.

But, one day Dad and Mom were having a “Dad and Mom Meeting” in his office…I walked in, threw myself down, facing DAD…and hung out with them for about 15 minutes… I thought I should snoopervise the meeting after all…and once it was over…I just casually walked out…

…snoopervising and catfacilitation…very hard work…

…then one night, I was having the best ever nap on the couch with Mom…Dad always turns on the gas fireplace for me…

…and I heard something unbelievable on the TV…so I sat right up and watched TV with them for about 20 minutes…

I can’t recall what channel was on, but it was really, really riveting…

Finally, the bestest news of all…look what Dad captured on camera…yup…this is me…letting Mom give me soft tummy pets, over and over and over again…Dad took like about a dozen photos…

…you can see…I was really getting into it…

…then I got a teeny bit scared…so I gave Mom “The Look”…

…smart Mom…she just kept it up…and I relaxed into it again…this was a really, really big deal…

Sorry the photos are blurry, all Dad had was his iPhone…but at least we have proof…I do like a soft tummy pet…at least from Mom…(sorry Dad…maybe later on, ‘Kay?)

Paw pats, Savannah