You don't have to leave Blogger to avoid Google+ issues

Mom and I have been spending the afternoon redesigning my blog a little and working on our blog reading. After reading George the Duck's post about Google+ and their real people policy AND because mom was already having problems because they kept thinking she and I were the same person, she decided she had to solve the problem.

We did one simple thing - we changed the Google profile for her email to her and not me. This did not mess up my blog. It didn't even change my blogger profile. There is also no link back from my blog to mom's Google profile. So all fixed and no future problems.

For my pals that have left for Word Press - please be sure and add an RSS button to your blog so I can subscribe to you. Or, add an email subscription link. Mom has a terrible time keeping up with reading blogs but she always reads her email!

In fact, for my pals still on Blogger, did you know it is really easy to add an email subscription link to your Bloggie? It is easy to set up AND you never have to do anything. You can see how many people have subscribed to you that way. We were sorry we checked today because it hasn't been that successful but then we have been very bad about posting lately. I'm sure many people prefer Google Reader but for peeps like mom and me, it would be nice to add the email subscription.

If you use Blogger, all you have to do is go to the design page, click ADD A GADGET where you want it and the Email subscription gadget is on the top of the list!

Oh and let me know if you like the new look. I'm still working on some color issues.

Oh Oh Mom Got a New Camera

Mom is kind of a geek. She swears she is not a total full fledged geek because her technology knowledge is somewhat limited. But boy does she love her gadgets.

So she got the just released Sony Cyber-shot Emor-R camera for work and of course had to practice with it at home so she could learn how to do it. It's 16.2 megapixels and like her old Sony does video and still shots. In fact this one does HD video.

This camera has a real cool tool for doing panorama shots - those really wide pictures. She says this is so cool because you make the picture by moving the camera from left to right. The camera does the rest.

In this one you can see me in the far right corner.

Mom says my bloggie is too narrow to do the pictures justice but I think you can see what she means.

It also lets her take 10 pictures in a burst - like one after another which is really helpful when shooting pictures of me.

This is a great series showing me doing a shake-off after coming out of the pond.

One more burst series - this one of me jumping in the pond to chase a stick dad through. I think these still shots are more fun than the movie pictures.

 

My apologies in advance because you will probably be seeing lots more burst series and geeky thinks on my blog thanks to this new camera. 

I'm not like my mom and dad

Some say that people start to look like their pets. Well, I don't think it's happening with my mom and dad.

We get along great and I think we really understand each other but there are differences:

I like to eat cat poop and they don't

I like to roll in smelly things and they don't

I go the bathroom outdoors and they don't

I walk on four legs and they walk on two

I speak DOG and they speak HUMAN

They wear clothes and I DON'T (don't even think about one of those Howloween costumes mom, although avatar costumes are okay)

I have to wear a leash outdoors and they don't

I could go on for a long time here. Matt Beswick over at  Pet 365 Blog put together a cool infographic that shows some of the more important differences. Click on the poster to make it big enough to read (my bloggie isn't wide enough to do it justice).



Dog Anatomy graphic created by Pet365, a UK pet supplies site with a fantastic collection of dog coats, collars and leads. Click here to view the full post.

Help Lynchburg Virginia Win the PetSafe Bark for Your Park Contest

Dear Pals I am asking for your help today. One of the cities here in Furginia is a finalist for the PetSafe's Bark For Your Park Contest. Lynchburg is in the center of the state and the people and their dogs have been working hard to get a dog park there since 2008. 

They are one of the 15 finalist communities and had to enter a video. Here it is.

The winner will get $100,000 which will help make this dog park a really special place. 

Between now and August 3, Lynchburg's video will compete with videos from 14 other localities across the United States. The public can vote for their favorite video, and the entry that receives the most votes will be declared the winner. Contest rules allow supporters to vote once per day, per voting site.

PetSafe's Bark For Your Park Page

PetSafe Facebook page 

So, unless you live near one of the other fourteen cities, would you help support the people and dogs of Lynchburg Furginia? 

And let's hear it for PetSafe being a great corporation willing to donate some of their profits to build dog parks!

I'm Baaaccccckkkkkkk!

Can you believe it has almost been two months since I posted? Shame on mom for being too busy to help me but I think the worst is over for her.

I have been very busy. First, there was my third birthday. Mom made this cool video of the fun we had but then we never blogged it. After this video some men came and cleared all the growth around the pond so you'll notice a real change in future videos.

She put together a slide show of the still pics from my birthday too. Mom is really loving Animoto!

My birthday was May 28, and then mom's was the very next day and that pretty much finished off May.

In June I got a new sisfur named Alexis. If you remember my sisfur Majel who went to the bridge last August you will see why mom and dad could not resist her. She's also a white kitty with a calico tail. And FINALLY I have a kitty that will play with me! This little ball of fur came into our home and took over, putting the other kittehs in their place. I love it!

 

Here she is taking a nap in mom's bag from Doggy Baggage. I can promise you some more posts featuring my new pal Alexis. Dad has been a videoing fool! But she sure is cute so can you blame him? And below is a better picture of her sweet face.

Right after we adopted her, mom, dad and I had to go to one of her parks, Hungry Mother State Park, to celebrate the Virginia State Parks 75th Anniversary and so mom could help train the supervisors who work with the kids in the Youth Conservation Corps. Since Alexis had not gotten acclimated real well yet, we decided we better bring her with us (I hate to think of the other three kitties being tortured by her for the week we were gone). We had a great time at the park. We had a cabin right on the lake and I got to go swimming of course.

Here I am on the front porch of our cabin and a view of the Hungry Mother Lake from the cabin porch.

Now that the big anniversary celebration is behind mom, she is a little busy with the Youth Conservation Corps and planning next year's Virginia State Parks marketing, but she is used to that level of busy.

Mom's work has daily contests until Labor Day (September 5) so you should check them out.

Dad Says I'm a Real Hero

Yes this is the Anipal Super Hero #pawpawty and we are all dressed up as Super Heroes. I am dressed up as the Greatest American Hero for the pawty.

But this week dad says I was a REAL Hero!

On Thursday I smelled smoke and I knew it was dangerous. So I had to convince dad that there was something wrong. First he thought I was telling him I had to go out but he reminded me I had just been out. But I just got more and more agitated and would just not leave him alone. I was whining and started trembling. I think the trembling was what did it.

So dad got up and when he walked in the other room he smelled something burning. He ran downstairs and there was two feet of smoke up at the ceiling all the way down the stairs. My grandma had left a pan on the stove with three hot dogs in it. All the water had boiled away and the hot dogs were ready to burst into flames. Smoke was pouring out of the pan. Grandma was asleep.

Dad says I may have saved the house from catching on fire and maybe even burning down so I am a real hero! Maybe I was a Dalmatian in another life!