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My First Blogiversary Pawty!!

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LET’S GET THIS PAWTY GOIN’!!!

In case you don’t know what you just walked into…this is my First Blogiversary Pawty…I have not missed one post for one single day for 365 days as of yesterday…so LET’S CELEBRATE!!

First order of business in my book is a great big humongous…

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Without all of you…I would not have continued to write, interact, research topics about animal rescue; nor would I have become involved in our paw social media groups that always find ways to rescue more and more furriends around the world…I am so humbled to be part of this community…

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However..I have been a bit stressed that maybe NO ONE will come to my FIRST BLOGIVERSARY PAWTY!!

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First and foremost…let’s get right to the impawtant GIVE AWAYS…I entered everyone’s names into Random.org…so all this is RANDOM!!

WHO WON THE HAND PAINTED WOOFIE AND CAT STONES!!!!!!!!

Well, as I “am” a “cat”…you can imagine that the contest was fierce over those cat stones…but…you are NEVER, EVER GONNA BELIEVE WHO WON THEM..

…go on GUESS???….GUESS???…WHO???

APAWS!!   APAWS!!  APAWS!!

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…don’t ask me…ya gotta talk to Easy as to why this manly mandog wanted those kitty hand painted stones…but they are his!!

Now, for the Woofie Stones…WHO??? WHO???…

APAWS!!   APAWS!!  APAWS!!

Scylla, Socks, Fenris and Tuiren…and yes…Mr Who

Alasandra, The Cats and Dogs

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…ummm…my apologies to Miss Alasandra…I could not find a photo on your bloggy with EFURRYBODY except this one…shuffles paws back and forth…hope this is OK???purrrrs…Concatulations!!!

Now come on over and Pawty, Pawty, Pawty…

Easy comes to the pawty

…ahem…koff, koff…Ok…we kind’a got off to a rough start…some furriends had a teeny problem in transport…but here is what you can all look forward to…

and of course I have all the noms and beverages you can pawsibly desire…heh…heh…

Lastly…I am once again so humbled by the generosity of this Paw Community…you are so gracious and caring…and kind…PURRlease allow me to share a few Special First Blogiversary Cards sent by such kind and thoughtful furriends…thank you all…

..from Nellie…

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…and from my Mentor Sammy..

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Paw Pats, Savannah

Monday Meowsie News…

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As I said last Monday…”I hope you will all find the focus of my next couple of posts on Monday Meowsie News  exciting, moving, amazing and thought provoking.”

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“Most of you know I was helping, with my Mom, to Save The Royals…they are 3 adult cats who were left suddenly without their huMom, known to many as QM Rose (QM for “Queen Mother”)…click HERE for the first post.

The remaining posts for this series are:

Part Two: The Back story…Where It All Started..The Royals Roots

Part Three: The Power of Paw Social Media

Part Four: The Joyous Ending As Told by Emily, Marigold and Brutus

The Back Story: Lessons Learned

LESSON ONE:  Virtual furriendships/friendships have great meaning, importance and provide much needed support in times of need.

  • 2006: two very good human friends, ML, Missy Blue Eyes, and her friend Deb, Taylor Catsssss, rescue a Mama Cat and her 4 kittens (Houston,TX SPCA Shelter).  They start a blog to help promote someone adopting this family…Grace And Company
  • Miss Rose, in New Jersey, sees the kittens and asks for two: Brutus and Marigold; Rose and The Royals 
  • Miss Marilynn sees the kittens and the Mama and asks to adopt all 3…Mama Cat Grace and Audace and Ruse…she continues the blog called Grace and Company over time.

…ML’s bloggy…

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…Miss Deb’s bloggy

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…and Miss Rose’s bloggy…

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…and the bloggy created to rescue Grace and her kittens…

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And so, the connections started that will eventually save 3 adult cats AND see that one human has a humanitarian ending to her final resting place.

…all because of peeps who are called “Paw Bloggers”

 Fast forward…several years…

  • Miss Rose adopts a cat named Beau when his huMom dies…Beau lived his last years well loved by Miss Rose…she will be paid back in full upon her own death as others step in to rescue her beloved Emily, Marigold and Brutus
  • ML moves to Maryland area to be near her dear friend Deb
  • ML and her KC cat become involved as Coordinator and RePURRtor for the Cat Blogosphere
  • Miss Rose remains in close touch, virtually, with ML…they may never have met in person but I am too new to paw blogging to know for sure
  • Somewhere in this time; after ML moved to the East Coast—Miss Rose makes sure her landlady knows to call ML if anything happens to her and her cats need care.  Thank Ceiling Cat that ML had paperwork signed by Miss Rose that named ML as the person to be informed. Miss Rose’s family had already abandoned her, so it was good that ML was there for her.

 February 10-19…2013

  • At some point ML learns of Miss Rose’s death on February 10 and by the 19th, she has The Royals moved to a shelter/kennel…no one knows where for sure at this point
  • ML lets people know that Emily has an adopter, but needs transport and that Brutus and Marigold need an adopter
  • Many donations are given to ML’s bloggy from the USA and outside the USA to help ML support the humanitarian placement of Miss Rose in her final resting place

LESSON TWO: Keeping FURRamily safe if something happens to our Guardians

  • Mom and I hope that we all learned how impawtant it is for FURRamily Guardians to make sure someone will care for us if our HUfamily is lost or incapacitated.
  • Click HERE to read from one source about steps you can take
  • Mom and Dad have already changed their will to make sure I am cared for if anything ever happens to them when they are off on one of their “Get-Aways”…and they made sure there are funds to care for me.
  • I know I won’t live longer than Mom and Dad…but they both know…life delivers the unexpected…

Thank you Miss Rose and ML for providing us these Lessons to Learn…

For those who may never have known The Royals over time…here are some PAWSOME photos…ENJOY!

Paw Pats, Savannah

peeEss…Mom Linda and I apologize if we  have left out any of this Back Story…and we regret if we misrepresented any history in any way…we are only one year in Paw Blogging and our hope was to capture the “back story” as others have told us.

Cultivation (VBP) Is Charming (VBP)

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Another Thursday, and another VBP Blog Hop gets started…just check out my post title…I got right to it!!

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I have lots to share with you…and it is mostly about gardening…I so want to tell you that I am doing this as part of Jonesie’s Feline Gardeners’ Report…but I cannot put up that graphic because we had so many spam replies last time we used it…weird, huh?!

If you are still having some thoughts about how to manage the VBP Blog Hop…just click here

Now, about that gardening report…I thought you might all enjoy seeing some of the foliagepaw Mom and Dad saw on their Maui holiday…

As you all know by now…Word Press will also incorporatepaw_15px.jpg my photo above into the gallery…but hope you don’t mind…here goes…

And of course, I want to join the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop today…and most of you know I have so much to be thankful for…but I can’t say it today for sure…I need validationpaw that The Royals are safe…and we should have it by Friday…but for The Royals, and their Mom Rose, who joined all her kitties before The Royals at The Bridge,…I am thankful for all who have made this pawsible…

Be sure to join our VBP Blog Hop…just grab this badge…and include it in your VBP post…then once published…come on back and enter your VBP post using the blue frog linky tool…

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Be sure to come back and use the froggy linky tool to enter your VBP post sometime over next 6 days…


And join the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop too…I know we all have lots to be appreciativepaw_15px.jpg of…just sayin’…

Paw Pats, Savannah

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