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Monday, October 11, 2010

Twinkie Says | A Tiny Dog PSA

Anti-Smoking Public Service Announcement

Smoking . . .

. . . can be dangerous to your health.

PSA-over


*** About Furry Tails, our ongoing contest***
All the information can be found on yesterday's post: Pet Photo Contest
Hurry up and join us. Anybody can take a "crack" at this one.

Twinkie


Sunday, October 10, 2010

Pet Photo Contest: Furry Tails

The verdict is in. The vast majority of you voted for a tushie pet photo contest. I decided to use a politically correct name for our contest in order to avoid those who lurk in the shadows outside our children and pet friendly pet blog-dom. From now on, Show Us Your Tushie shall be referred to as FURRY TAILS on this blog.

Are you ready for the rules? For both our sakes, I couldn't simplify them any more.

Furry Tails Pet Photo Contest

The RULES

Click on the tab at the top of my blog titled: PET PHOTO CONTEST SUBMISSIONS. You will find an easy to use form where you can type in your pet's name and upload his or her photo.
All species (excluding humans) are welcome!!!

One catch:
Our wonderful sponsors at Clean+Green by SeaYu, cannot ship their free giveaways overseas, so they've requested the participants to be from the US and Canada only. While I respect that, I still say, all are welcome to participate, but if a non-US or Canada resident wins, then the next runner up gets the wonderful prize. 
UPDATE:
A furry friend, Richie, asked "if I was lucky enough to win, could I nominate my prize to someone in the US?"
Absolutely! If you win, you are certainly allowed to nominate someone in the US or Canada.

***REVISED DEADLINES***
Pet Photo Contests Submissions end: Sunday, October 17th midnight
Voting polls open: Monday, October 18th - Sunday, October 25th
Winners Announced on this blog: Tuesday, October 27th

The PRIZES

For their free giveaways, Clean+Green by SeaYu is offering three cans of their most popular product:
Clean+Green Dog & Cat Carpet & Upholstery 




If you chose to blog about your entry, whether it's about the process of toning your glutes, your new exercise regime, or even your need for votes to help pick out the winning shot, please share with me your link, as I won't have time to go around all my friend's blogs. Thank you!


As with all our contests so far, I would like to wish everyone good luck, the Twink way!

Sorry about the magnifying gl-ass, but ass you can see, I had no choice.

GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY MOONINGS!!!
Twinkie




Saturday, October 9, 2010

Clean+Green by SeaYu | Product Review

A product review for animal lovers made by animal lovers who also care about our environment. Review o-ver. Okay, maybe not so fast.

Two characteristics of our times are the increasing environmental consciousness and an obvious trend to really care for animals. Clean+Green targets the eco-friendly pet lover. Welcome to the animal blog-dom SeaYu! Where were you all this time?

Clean+Green's eco friendly products come in a variety of formulas, each product ozone safe, water soluble, biodegradable, and free of fragrances and masking agents. It is pet, child, and environment safe. Clean+Green is non-toxic, non-carinogenic, and is recyclable.

I'm writing this review from the standpoint of a rather large mixed cat dog household. Why is that so special? Not only are there ten pets sharing one roof (not including periodical rescues and fosters), but as we all know, cats and dogs don't always get along. The way this is mostly manifested is by MARKING! Every new fur-ball introduced to a mixed household necessitates the use of hard labor on the humans' part. So far, since my house is predominately "green", I've been using vinegar to neutralize pet urine at it's root. I do not like using harsh chemicals, on the other hand, I did cave in and bought ... whatever they sold at the local pet store. Not only did I feel guilty, most products didn't even work the way the label said.

As I type away, most of my furniture is outdoors, on the patio chairs. The cats went wild recently when I tried to introduce a family of four to the existing pack and tribe. There was little blood shed. There was lots of urine however. Now, as many animal lovers, I've been accused of overdoing it. I do not like to be criticized, so I made it one of my life's missions to get those people to zip it. The one thing that I focus on is odors! Whenever a friend stops by, they are put under the sniff test. I ask them to sniff hard and tell me if there are any lingering odors. So far, I've managed, yet, most of my furniture ended on the covered patio.

I had washed my couch pillows and extra large seat cushions with detergent. Sprayed them with products, used harsh chemicals, odor neutralizers . . . and ultimately, I still had to leave everything outdoors for a prolonged period of time, just to be safe.

After treating my urine soaked pillows with Clean+Green Carpet and Upholstery, I saw the difference.
 SeaYu Carpet & Upholstery Cleaner, Odor Eliminator & Stain Remover

The directions on the spray can were clear: spray the affected area so that it is wet but not soaked. Clean+Green works by making contact with the odor. I knew I couldn't do just that. My problem had penetrated deeply. So, I soaked the pillows. The next morning we had lots of rain and the cushions were still wet. As soon as the sun came up the third day, I was stunned to find out that the urine odor was gone!

I love animals. I can't imagine life without my extended furry family, but I realize that without the proper product, my home too was bound to fall victim to nasty pet odors. Today, I am grateful say that I have finally found a product that works the way it claims while it is eco friendly.

The Clean+Green website has a store locator and lots of extra information. I also found that I can buy Clean+Green through Amazon, and I've already placed my next order.

What rating would I give Clean+Green by SeaYu? Almost a perfect ten. I'm very picky and found the aerosol spray to be a tad messy. This won't stop me from using this product in the future. I'm also going to order their Clean+Green Litter Box Cleaner and odor remover for extra clean air in my home. Another product I'm definitely getting as soon as possible, is their De-Skunk coat cleaner. There's a skunk living in my back yard and it's only a matter of time before my dogs get skunked, again.


I like being clean and green. How about you?


Clean+Green is so enthusiastic, proud, and sure about the performance of their product, that they offered to be the sponsors of our next pet photo contest. Three lucky winners get to see how well Clean+Green works.

T--

Friday, October 8, 2010

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Pet Photo Contest Info


The kittens are now a little over 3 mos old. The weigh over 5lbs and sadly they are all much bigger, heavier, and faster than me, Twinkie.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly



The Good
Puddles, the calico kitten
Puddles is mellow and sweet with vivacious outburst. She keeps to herself a lot unless she's in the mood to be petted. She's the runt of the litter, but when she gets a toy, beware; she'll growl and protect it. Most of the day, she lounges around looking beautiful.




The Bad
Charlie Chuckles (aka Trouble), the tuxedo kitten
The instigator! We probably shouldn't have changed his name from Trouble.  He is nothing but. He is unruly and obnoxious. He thinks barriers are to be ignored and rules created to be defied. He gets along with everybody in the house and loves to play ball with Frankie, the chiweenie. He is also a talker. He is this litter's shining star.


Charlie is climbing over a 6 foot barrier to get to us dogs.

The Ugly
The Smudge! (aka, Clorox), the muted tortie
Mama's girl! She is attached to her mom's hip most of the day. She's taken the semi-feral traits of her mom as well. She's hard to catch, and seems to only tolerate the rest of us. She hisses at all of us dogs and the rest of the cats. Up close, her face looks like somebody squirted her with bleach.




And their mama:
Farrah, the feral ghetto kitty
Still an amazing mother to her kittens. She's still nursing them as well. Because the kittens' adult teeth are coming in, when she nurses she often jumps up cussing and correcting them. She's really vocal. She's getting used to M who she loves to follow around. She's tiny and will not eat until her kittens are done. Even when presented with her favorite cat treats, she would rather give them to her babies.



The tribe is thriving, now I'm counting on M to protect us from the monsters that keep charging at us. Meanwhile, our home is adorned with beautiful squirt bottles strategically located in every room.


Pet Photo Contest Information

Show Us Your Booty!

It's going to be a bootylicious contest open to all pets. This time, I will kindly request that there are no human entries, pretty please. 
In the next couple of days, I will introduce you to our sponsors by posting a review about their eco friendly products.
I will post the pet photo contest rules and free giveways in detail right after that.
As always, if the topic inspires you, by all means, post about your booty and share with your furiends; I know that I was truly inspired by the Show Us Your Tongue hilarious posts. Oh, one more thing, if I get one more comment about Puddles' hiney, I'm going to have to break my rules and enter my own personal tush, and that's a threat! In any case, don't forget to take our Brown Newfie friends' brilliant advice: start doing your lunges.


Happy mooning, furiends!

Twinkie

Thursday, October 7, 2010

S-ass-y Chiweenie

 Are you serious???


 I am confused! 

You really want a Show Us Your Hiney pet photo contest?


I didn't have those ass-pirations growing up, but by all means, I'm a rather agreeable chiweenie.
Happy moonings everybody!

Meanwhile . . . 
 Not again, Brindle-bum!
(I need some fresh air)


I am a teacup chihuahua and a lady. I refuse to share my booty shots, however, it appears that I'm a minority when it comes to voting for a body part for our next pet photo contest.

I ass-ume you've all guessed the answer by now!

Our next photo contest will be revolving around booties, tushies, moonings, dusters, keisters, arses, glutes . . .

Bottom line
We're going to be making (beeps) out of ourselves again.


Clarification: During the last contest, for obvious reasons, I had to exclude amphibians and those species with a well endowed tongue, there are no limits to the upcoming contest though. Even donkeys are welcome!

Warning: Perhaps you would like to carefully monitor your comments in the days to come. Who knows what kind of traffic we're going to attract.

Twinkie

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Wordless Wednesday & Sabbatical Cancelled

This is the photo I was originally going to share with you on Wordless Wednesday:

It's me, Twinkie, the teacup chihuahua, enjoying my sabbatical.

Meeep!
Change of plans. 

Before taking my leave of absence, I'd made a prior commitment to post a product review for an eco friendly company I discovered, and since they went through the trouble to mail me some of their products and since they also volunteered to give out not just one but THREE free giveaways, I have no choice but keep my word. 
True indeed, ladies and tramps, I am nuts enough to start yet another pet photo contest. All I ask of you is this:
Show Us Your Ears
or 
Show Us Your Hineys
?

This will be a combined pet photo contest once again. There will be no links posted on my blog since many of our contestants don't even have a blog. So, what do you say?

Oh, you want to hear about the giveaway! But you know me, I'm a tease and I love a good mystery. Stay tuned. A review and an announcement are coming your way soon. All I can say is that this particular eco friendly product works for mixed "cat dog" households, as for the rest of the pets, fear not, the contest will not only be limited to cats and dogs.

I look forward to your input as I try to figure out a way to make this contest easy and fun for you and me alike.

Twinkie



Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Pet Photo Contest Results

The Show Us Your Tongue Awards




And now, the moment we've all been waiting for . . .
the announcement of the Show Us Your Tongue Awards!!!

Boomer, the chihuahua, will start off the ceremony with our International Pet Photo Contest Anthem. Hit it, Boomer!






The 1st Yƶghund Pet Photo Contest Awards go to:
(drumroll)

 Teutul

 Zeus

Sugar
Gizzy

Sophie

I'm also going to include two runners up: Stuart (spelled correctly this time, please excuse my already fired spell checker), and Wrinkles.
If the top 5 winners do not email me at twinkietinydog (@) aol.com with a full name and postal address, or for any reason they do not want to collect their award, I will be contacting the two runners up in the order posted.

Because I've been unable to contact our winners on time for this ceremony, allow me to accept the award on their behalf.

"Pets and pawrents! Thank you! I feel so humbled to receive my award and coupons. Oh, thank you again! In my wildest dreams, I never would have imagined (although I frantically prayed) that this could ever happen to my tongue. And to the other nominees, I want each of you to know how totally wonderful your crushing defeat will make my tummy feel.

You know, when they first told me I could enter the Show Us Your Tongue pet photo contest, I just had to take a minute and laugh about how many worthy and freakish tongues I would be competing against. 

There are so many four and two legged (even three-legged) friends to thank. First off though, I'd like to thank you, the judges, their pawrents and furry friends. I would also like to thank Twinkie's colleagues, editors, family, and friends for writing her off, allowing this exquisite event to come together on such short notice. And finally, thank you to all the secretaries I have fired thus far. I couldn't have done it without you!
Thank you and good day!"
 


Today's ceremony has come to an end. We'll see you all at the after party.

This presentation was brought to you by Yƶghund. If that ain't a dog treat!




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