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It’s the second day of summer.. Not feelin’ it yet? Not really into it? Well, stop watching CNN (that oil spill isn’t going anywhere), turn up the sound, and watch this!
…now get out there and enjoy it, ideally with your dog(s)!
Some would say the bible says no, the past Pope said yes, but what do you say?
Now a church in Massachusetts is giving pets and their parents the opportunity to cover their religious bases, according to an article in USA Today’s Paw Print Post:
Pets and heaven? This church helps pave the way
Do pets go to heaven? A church in Massachusetts and a Guideposts author are among the believers who would say yes.
Calvary Episcopal Church in Danvers, Mass., will offer later this month its first “Perfect Paws Pet Ministry” aimed at giving area pooches and their owners improved odds at getting canines into heaven. The church plans to hold the service on the third Sunday of every month, complete with communion for the humans and special blessings for pets. Dogs will get special treats. For now, it’s only for dogs, but special prayers can be offered for other kinds of pets. Rev. Thea Keith-Lucas tells The Salem News dogs will have a say during service because barking won’t be banned.
Ask any animal lover in Denver what’s the biggest event of the year and they’ll tell you, it’s the Denver Dumb Friends League’s Furry Scurry. And it’s tomorrow, Saturday May 1st!
For those of you who aren’t local or aren’t familiar, let’s see, how can we describe the Furry Scurry?… It’s complete bedlam on a leash!!
This huge fundraiser helps DDFL care for more than 25,000 homeless pets every
year. The festivities include refreshments and demonstrations before, during and after the walk. A “Flealess Market” for pet-friendly merchandise and services offered by more than 100 vendors. That’s where we’ll be!
You can even enter the Pet/Person Look-alike, Best Pet Kisser, Best Tail Wagger and Best Trick contests beginning at 9:45 a.m. It all happens tomorrow at Washington Park – 1000 S. Downing St. in Denver. Registration begins at 7:00 and the walk commences at 9:00, Rain OR Shine!
We’ll be there for the first time in a few years and we’re pretty excited about it so we hope we’ll see you there – please stop by and say hello!
Better yet, order a custom pet portrait tomorrow and 20% of the proceeds will be donated to the Dumb Friends League to help rescue Denver’s homeless pets!
We were recently approached by Josh D’Alessio at Quio.me about incorporating our custom pet art in a very cool, clever eCard program. It’s not the typical, convoluted online eCard setup where you have to go online, register, log in, configure your card, enter the email, send it out and then your card’s recipient has to jump 
thorough similar hoops to pick up the card. With Quio (pronounced “Key-oh”) Digital eCards there’s a simple alternative to all this clicking and registering and logging in. Josh has created a program you just download directly onto your desktop so it’s just sitting there ready to go at any time like your own personal stationery. You can send eCards straight from you to your friends’ and family’s inbox with no middle man.
So when Josh asked if we would like to work with him we were flattered and of course and agreed. But then we asked if there was some way we could use the card program to help raise funds for animal cancer research. Many of you know we lost our beautiful Kylie to cancer and our very close friend lost her adorable boy, Trouble, to cancer around the same time. So we are always looking for ways to honor them. Josh was totally agreeable to the idea. We hope you’ll find it a worthy cause too!
Here’s how it works:
The program is super simple and FREE to download. Just click here: http://quio.me/download/papCards.exe
You get to check it all out and send two cards for FREE!
If you decide you love it, just click on the “buy it” option. Then for a very reasonable $20, 100% of our portion of the proceeds ($10) will go to Colorado State University’s Animal Cancer Center (ACC) to support their research and treatment center.
If for some reason you don’t love it, it’s just as easy to uninstall it so no worries there. But we hope in that case you’ll forward it to others who might really enjoy it. Oh, one limitation, the program is not Mac-friendly. But if you are Mac, you can still help out by passing this along to all your PC friends. And if you are PC you can now send a cute, colorful card to all the animal lovers in your life for any occasion!
Thank you so much for your help and support for this cause!
More info about ACC:
CSU’s Animal Cancer Center’s mission “is to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in pet animals, translating our research and knowledge to also benefit people with cancer.” In their pursuit of this mission, every penny counts! Visit them at www.csuanimalcancercenter.org.
A large part of the country is currently dealing with crazy, crippling winter weather again this week. Here in Denver we haven’t had the pile up they’re getting on the east coast, but we have had a new layer of the white stuff at least every few days for what seems like forever. But this week we noticed something unexpected…
First we saw the first robin of spring, then we noticed several of his friends. They were all hopping around in the snow, presumably looking for a snack, making a mess. But it was about 22 degrees so apparently they didn’t get the groundhog’s memo about the several more weeks of winter to come.
Then the next day, quite early the next day in fact, we hear a sub-machine gun being fired just outside the window! Fortunately it turned out to be just a woodpecker, hammering away on the gutters. Somehow however, it doesn’t feel fortunate to have no break whatsoever between shoveling snow and trying to ward off woodpeckers, which is a battle we often fight but seldom win.
So we thought a reminder might be in order that birds are beautiful creatures who offer the world beautiful song. And especially in the case of these exotic beauties we’ve had the fortune to work with, they often provide a much needed splash of color in the world!
If you have feathered friends of your own, please keep in mind that we can create a custom bird portrait for you too! And if anybody has any tips for humanely keeping woodpeckers away, please share!
Everybody knows Ben Stein’s a pretty smart guy, but did you know he actually knows the secret to happiness? Of course the answer was obvious… it’s dogs!
He’s a genius!
Celebrate National Dress Up Your Pet Day this thursday, January 14th!
PetStyle.com has suggestions for selecting your pet’s attire according to their personality and of course the weather. We suggest go beyond the bandanna and be creative, be elaborate, have fun with it!
We have been very resistant to the whole “social media” movement all along, but its a new year, a new decade, so we’ve adopted a new attitude about it… If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! ;)
So here we are on facebook
And of course, twitter.
And no, we have no idea what we’re doing, so please help us out! Become a Fan on Facebook or a Follower on Twitter and we’ll hook you up with a discount code for 15% off a custom pet portrait from Pop Art Pet!
According to The Daily Camera online, based here in Colorado, 80% of pet parents now report buy holiday gifts for their dogs and/or cats.:
It’s that time of year when the furry, four-legged friends get extra treats and jingle bells on their collars, and dogs 
even get a pass if they lift their legs indoors (because, hey, somebody put a tree in the living room).
Eight in 10 pet owners say they give their pets holiday and birthday gifts, according to a survey from the American Animal Hospital Association. Another 21 percent sometimes dress their pets, according to the association.
Marc Bekoff, a research scholar at the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver, said pets love the extra attention around the holidays, as their guardians tend to spend more time around the home.
“They don’t know it’s the holiday season, but they know something special is going on,” Bekoff said. “It’s a great time for bonding with your family .. it’s acknowledging that these animals have emotions and feelings. You want to treat them well, and by treating them well, you feel good.”
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So join the crowd, spend time with your furry family members this holiday season!
We found this on BoingBoing.net, one of our favorites, and thought it was amusing and very enterprising!:
Atheists who’ll take in your pets after the Rapture
Will sends us “a site of avowed atheists who will, for a nominal fee, look after your pet when you have taken in the rapture.”
We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you’ve received your reward. Our network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step up to Jesus.
We are currently active in 20 states and growing. Our representatives have been screened to ensure that they are atheists, animal lovers, are moral / ethical with no criminal background, have the ability and desire to rescue your pet and the means to retrieve them and ensure their care for your pet’s natural life.
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Without adding any potentially non-pc commentary, we have to admit.. this is a brilliant idea, and no matter which side of the issue you’re on it makes total sense!
