Write a Post, Help a Dog

Write A Post, Help a Dog!

I saw this on Books and Things blog http://melissawatercolor.blogspot.com/  and just had to help out.  I have two beautiful Weimaraners and love them so much.  It always makes me so sad to see a homeless animal and I wish I could take them home.  Well at least this is one way we can help.

Deets:

Pedigree is resurrecting is insanely successful Write a Post, Help a Dog program. In 2010, 391 bloggers wrote about the program and with each post, Pedigree donated 20 pounds of its Healthy Longevity dog food to shelter animals. In all, 7,820 pounds of food was donated to two shelters renowned for their care of senior dogs: Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco and Castaway Critters in Harrisburg, Pa.

How you can help in 2011

Simply spread the word about Write a Post, Help a Dog 2011 and once again Pedigree will donate 20 pounds of food for each blogger's post. Here's all you need to include in your post:

• The Write a Post, Help a Dog program is aimed at raising awareness and food for the more than four million dogs that wind up in shelters and breed rescues each year.
• For each blog post mentioning the Pedigree Foundation from now until midnight ET on September 3, Pedigree will donate 20 pounds of its new dry Pedigree recipe food for dogs -- its best recipe ever -- to a shelter, because every dog deserves leading nutrition.
• The Pedigree Foundation -- a 501 (C)(3) nonprofit organization is committed to helping dogs by providing grants to shelters and rescues and encouraging dog adoption. This year the Foundation has already raised more than $376,570 against its goal of $1.5 million to carry out its work to fund grants that not only help shelters operate, but to further shelter innovations.

The Pedigree Foundation depends on charitable contributions from individuals to carry out its mission to help dogs find loving homes. In addition to writing a blog post, here's how you can help:

• Donate online at http://pedigreefoundation.org/donate.aspx
• Apply for a shelter grant from the Pedigree Foundation by completing a form atwww.pedigreefoundation.org
• Purchase Dogs Rule Gear at www.dogsrulegear.com where the proceeds go to the Pedigree Foundation to help loving dogs find a home. SPECIAL OFFER: Get 10 percent off Dogs Rule Gear by using the promo code BlogPaws10 from August 22 - September 30.

Then, link up to our Blog Hop below, hosted by the Pedigree BlogPaws bloggers to help spread the word about Write a Post, Help a Dog.

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Spring Carnival Winners!

Thank you all so much for the great comments!  This was my first giveaway and it was very fun!  I wish I could give everyone the prize, but of course I cannot afford that.  However The winner of the comments  is

krysykat said..

Thank you for the giveaway!!
I am a GFC follower- Krysta Banco

The number generated for the winner was 92.  I'm sorry, but I couldn't figure out how to put the actual widget with the generated number in my post(I'm sort of new at this).  Anyway Congratulations Kryskat! 

Katia M won the other card from the follower drawing!  Congratulations!

I will be participating in the Splash into Summer Hob at the end of the month with a$25.00 gift card, So come back soon!

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MISS Rimmers Review Carnival Blog Challenge

Over at Miss Rimmers Review, she has a challenge called, It's a bad world.  It is focused on Dystopian fiction and she wanted us to answer a few questions about it and then post our answers.  So, here are my answers.  here is her link:http://www.missremmersreview.com/

First I have to admit that I have not read any Dystopian Fiction.  But, If I win this then I will have no excuse!  She asked why it is so popular, what does the popularity say about our society and what implications it has on our society?

I think that the reason it so popular is that it gives us hope, hope for a better future.  I believe we want to read about worse societies than our own,  because it allows us to see that no matter how bad conditions are, they could always be worse.  Maybe it helps us to feel better about our own.  I think the main implication it has on our society is that people want a better world to live in.

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Please scroll down for the Spring Blog Giveaway!

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Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell and Gaskell Reading Challenge

Title:  Ruth
Author:  Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher:  
Date:  March st 1998 (First Published 1853)
Version:  Kindle
Pages:  432

The first thing I should mention about this book is that it is the first time I have read a Elizabeth Gaskell novel, and it was so wonderful that I cannot wait to read another one!  This book took my breath away!  It was so beautifully written that I did not want to put it down.  Elizabeth Gaskell has a way with words that evokes such strong emotions in the reader.  Her words provide such imagery throughout the book that you can actually smell the fragrance in the air, and most importantly, to feel the emotions the characters are experiencing.

The setting is the mid 1800's in England and Ruth Hilton is a twelve year old orphan that has been signed over by her guardian to woman that has a sewing business.  The work conditions are deplorable and Ruth has no relatives or friends in the city.  Ruth is extremely beautiful, however she does not believe that beauty has much value.  Her beauty causes the other working girls to be jealous of her, therefore she is an outcast which makes her even more lonely.  She misses her parents and longs for someone to care for her.

One Sunday, after church she notices a boy playing near a stream.  The boy falls in and is close to drowning.  Ruth screams until a young man comes to help her with the child.  The young man's name is Mr Bellingham and he is immediately enamored by her beauty.  They begin to go on walks after church and become good friends.  One day, Mr Bellingham talks Ruth into going for a long walk to the house where she was born, because she misses it very much.  On the walk back, it begins to get dark and a coach approaches and in it is the woman she works for.  The woman tellsRuth that she cannot have such loose girls working for her and that she is not to go back to work.  Mr. Bellingham convinces Ruth to go traveling with him.  And the rest is history!


You will fall in love with Ruth.  She is such a sweet, loving person that you just have to fall in love with her.  She has an extremely difficult time making her way in the world.  It is interesting to read about the differences between then and now, and to see just how the female has risen above such terrible ideas of how a woman is supposed to act and what is expected of her.

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