That darn capcha and the Saturday Blog Hop

I am really bored today. Dad and I went and played stick fetching and I went swimming but I am still raring to go and dad and mom keep telling me to calm down. I was at a loss as to what to write about today too. So, mom and I settled down to read our bloggie roll. It is not possible for us to keep up with every post from all our friends, but we do try.

 Just plain bored

We like to add a comment when we are inspired, but we read a whole lot more blogs than just the ones we comment on. REALLY.

I had never noticed before since mom does the typing but today I saw she had to do this weird thing when she posted comments - type these strange letters that make no sense. She says they are called a CAPTCHA and they are used to tell comments from humans apart from computers. I didn't even know computers read blogs!

Sometimes they look like this:

Mom says those are actually two real words but they also put that line through it to make it hard for the computer to read. Mom says sometimes it is hard for humans to read too!

This one is from mom's work bloggie. This particular one is easy compared to some that pop up. She says sometimes she has a hard time getting it right but believe it or not the spammers get through anyway!


Most of the blogs we follow are on Blogger and the CAPTCHA is not too hard. 

 
The Word Press bloggies are a little harder and look more like the official CAPTCHA in the first example above. A couple of the blogs we follow do not have one - my blog does not have one. I know we get a little bit of spam but Blogger has actually developed a pretty cool spam blocker that catches the most annoying ones now. We certainly understand why people like to have them and some people even moderate their posts (mom's work blog does that too).

We wanted to share with you some of today's CAPTCHAs!

asinsio
mismsh
singeop
trasis
enour
monrea
munroi
thermion
sizin
anden
imelays Harremoes

Sounds like a foreign language!

Be sure and check out the other bloggies on the Saturday Blog Hop!

Blog the Change - Feed Shelter Animals

Mom and I feel real strongly about anipal causes and we have been trying to find a way to help support these causes. Unfortunately mom works a gazillion hours a week so support that involves spending lots of time is hard for us. This doesn't mean we care any less though.

We were lucky to find a cause some time ago that even mom has time to help with - Freekibble.com.

Mom is also so busy that sometime she has trouble remembering to do things so FreeKibble.com is great because they send her an email everyday reminding her to click and help fee shelter animals. Better yet, FreeKibble.com is fun because there is a trivia question to answer to feed both dogs and cats (Bow Wow and Meow trivia). We have learned a lot with some of the questions. Fortunately you feed the shelter anipals even if you get the question wrong!

Mom and I especially admire that this great organization was founded by Mimi Ausland a not so ordinary eleven year old girl from Oregon.

Here is a great video from NBC Nightly News

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The easiest thing for us all to do to help is simply tell your friends to answer the Free Kibble trivia questions each day. All of us can be part of this great effort with this simple act.

Wounded and Saturday Blog Hop

Mom noticed the "wound" on the right (in the picture) when she took a picture of me with a treat on my head for sweet Sugar's ten second treat trick. Today she noticed the smaller one on the left. 

How could this possibly happen? How could my handsomeness be marred in such a grievous way? I have a suspicion.

I have many, many kitty friends (some of my best friends are kitties) and they will be tempted to say that if the culprit swatted me I probably deserved it.

But I have nothing but love in my heart and play in mind. Is it my fault he is a grumpy gus (you will notice I selected the only picture we have of him that makes him look grumpy)? All I do is go up to him and try to be friendly and whack!

Well Caesar is not the only potential culprit. Another possibility is crazy Sabrina. Since dad rearranged the room, she has a new hiding place and has turned into a sniper of sorts. Take a look at this sneak attack.

I guess I will just have to be extra careful with these deadly felines around. Anyone have any ideas to help get these blemishes to heal faster?

Shake Shake Shake then Hop Hop Hop

I am excited about the second week of Blog Hop and I am throwing my bloggie in the mix again, hoping to find some new cool blogs to follow and some friends who write the blogs.

But before we get on to the hop, I wanted to share this video mom took of me and my Busy Buddy Waggle (just happens to be on clearance at Nip and Bones and I have the medium/large one). I love this toy. Mom fills it up with my treats twice a day. She breaks the small training treats in half and also cut some things inside the waggle so the treats came out a little easier. I shake the waggle and treats fall out. You can see in this video how much I enjoy it. Sadly, mom only had her Blackberry handy and the light was low. She got a video editor software thingee she is just learning to use so she was able to add some light but it is not the best video.

Well, after the shakin' it's time for the HOP! Blog Hop that is:

Picture Contest

My friend Shawnee Shep tagged me for the Photo Contest. I think this is a cool idea. This is what I have to do:

1. Open your first photo folder
2. Scroll down to the 10th photo
3. Post the 10th photo and tell the story about it
4. Pass along to 5 other blogs

Well, I opened my very first picture folder which has the first pictures mom and dad took of me and this was number 10.


I was such a cute puppy. I was two months old in this picture and living in my pen while I was being potty trained. This was my "please I want to be on the bed with you" look. It usually worked.

Now for my five friends to tag for the contest:

Adore My Pets: I have to confess I just found this bloggie and I love it already!

Mario's Meowsings: I love Mario's writings.

Boris Kitty - 4 Paws for a Cause: We got our #SciFiPawty prizes this week. Dad is addicted to the BuckyBalls that Caesar won. Not a kitty prize anyway (although he got some treats in the package). I won the three stuffed urban legends. Mom and dad really liked them so given my history with plush, they are on display where I can't reach them. It's ok because I also got my Baby Patches Nip and Bones prize this week.

Love Always Bear: I always wait for Bear's latest installments

and last , but not least

The World's Most Stunning Cat: Well based on the bloggie title, Cathy Keisha is not humble but she is pretty stunning.

Mom has been so busy this week because at work they are switching email. She doesn't do the actual IT work but she helps all the users get ready (including emailing 280 users their new passwords). She has even been neglecting her work Twitter, Facebook and blog, so you know where I've been - out of touch. No email this weekend while the tech people do their thing, so mom and I are looking forward to catching up on all our favorite bloggies! Oh and the #puppypawty!

The Sunshine Award

The Shibbering Cheetos have awarded my bloggie the Sunshine Award. I am not sure if I am more honored to win the award or to have it bestowed upon me by the most famous anipal band in the universe. (I would have said "world" but after this weekend;s SciFiPawty, it's definitely the universe).

The award goes to a blogger who fills your like with sunshine. After this winter, we sure need all the sunshine we can get! And, I am so honored that I was selected. The rules for accepting the Sunshine Award are as follows:

1.Put the Sunshine Award flower logo on your blog or within your post

2.Pass the award onto 12 bloggers who fill your life with Sunshine

3.Link the winners within your post

4.Leave a comment on their blog letting them know they've received the Sunshine Award

5.Post these instructions so they'll know what to do!

The logo is in this post and I am going to put it on the side of my blog in a place of honor as well. The next part is hard because some of my favorite bloggies that we read all of the time and enjoy have already won the award. In fact, I noticed today that the flower pictures were popping up all over my bloggie roll. I have made the best effort to not select bloggies that have already been honored but if they haven't accepted the award, what could I do. I even checked out a couple of my pals who also won to make sure I didn't pick their honorees. As mom and her government people would say, I did my due diligence!

Here go my 12 favorites (in no particular order):

The Shenanigans of Shawnee the Shepherd by @ShawneeShep - I think Shawnee's was the first bloggie we started reading on a regular basis and it was because we saw on Twitter about the big trip to deliver @BusyButtons to her forever home. Then we started reading about all of the wonderful hiking Shawnee does with her mom so it is our absolute favorite blog. Mom got to meet Shawnee and her mom on her way home from the Shorty Awards. I was so jealous. Shawnee and her family also do a great job with product testimonials and mom and me are working to be better bloggers with them as role models.

Confessions of the Plume by @BabyPatches - Baby Patches is a really sweet kitteh but I love her best because her momma has my most favorite store - Nip and Bones. Mom buys me really cool toys there. I love reading about the Chief Kit's duty at the store - kind of a behind the scenes look at running a business.

Albert the Cat's Blog by @Albertthecat - Well, no one would say that Bert is a cheery bloke but his escapades and the way he talks about his family always make us laugh. And, he seems to be an anipal that can write posts as long as mine.

Teeny's Friends by @TeenysFriends - While I had been following Teeny for a while on Twitter, I got to know him better when we were both DJ's for the Winter Olympics Pawpawty. I learned more about all the work Teeny and his organization does to get toys to needy anipals. Even a shelter animal's life can be made better with a toy! So he brings lots of sunshine to needy anipals not just me.

Call Me The Breeze by @Kittehboi - I love his bloggie and his Yellow Snow post still makes me chuckle. I was also taken with his tribute to Laika, the first Russian Cosmonaut. I am glad there is a space program but I don't like the idea of sending animals to space without being able to get them back home.

Rockum Sockum's View On Things by @RockumSockum - We love reading about Rockum's large animal family. There is so much love in that house. I like that each animal gets their day out with mom and a couple of double cheeseburgers too.

Shelter Diaries - I actually don't even know if they are on Twitter. This blog does not bring us happiness. In fact it always makes mom and me cry. Like just now when we looked at the updates on some of the posts. But the sunshine goes to the animals at the Shelter in Texas where this man volunteers and brings love and kindness to animals, many of whom are eventually euthanized. We wish we could adopt them all. It is hard for us to read about it but this man goes back time and again and I know his heart must break.

Fido & Wino by @FidoandWino - Shauna just moved their blog from Blogger to Wordpress with their very own URL. We love reading about Mickey and Kayloo as well as Shauna and her husband.

Cleo's Day by @GrouchyPuppy - I never really thought @GrouchyPuppy was that Grouchy (certainly not in Albert the Cat's league), and we really enjoy Cleo's bloggie. Cleo introduces us to a lot of Grouchy's friends which is fun. Besides, I really enjoyed the post about the dog hair song.

King's Meow by my brofur @Caesar_OSkeezix - Okay so this one is a little self-serving. There is no secret that there is no love lost between me and my kitteh sibs through no fault of my own. Well no fault that I can control since I can't help it that I'm a dog and I'm big. So I am hoping this will be a peace offering of sorts. I must say I am still laughing about Caesar in his Jabba the Hutt costume.

The Days of Johann, an agility dog! by @JohnannTheDog - I thoroughly admire all that agility stuff and now that they are opening up agility events to doggies whose papas were rolling stones like mine, I aspire to learning the agility stuff. Well, just as soon as I learn to stop jumping up on mom.

Lou, Mama's Boy by @LouPeb - Since I have been on Twitter I have run into a number of dogs that look a lot like me. Lou was the first one I noticed. That's why I started with the "Papa was a rolling stone" comment (ok it's a musical reference since I'm a DJ - "wherever he laid his hat was his home" meaning he really got around and had a lot of families). I enjoy reading about Lou and his sisfur Pebbles.

Well that's my award winners. Now I need to post on their bloggies they have won and give them the rules.

Honest Scrap Award

I am so thrilled to have won this award I am writing my blog within ten minutes of the notification! Thanks so much to my good friend @CathyKeisha, World's Most Stunning Cat, for bestowing this great honor upon my humble bloggie. Cathy is a fellow DJ and music lover.

About the award

I actually did a Google search on the award because I am a curious dog and there were more than 7 million entries. I am actually pretty good at math so since the award requires you give it to 10 more bloggers (although I saw some places where it said 7), I could see it could grow geometrically. But nowhere could I find (or figure out a search to find) where it all started. I do know that it is wider than the anipal community.

Wherever it started, the award is given to "bloggers who put their hearts on display as they write from the depths of their soul."

The requirements for the award are to

(1) Highlight the award on your blog and link back to the person (or cat) who gave you the award. Not only am I dedicating this post to the award, I have permanently added the award to my side column. And I can't thank @CathyKeisha and her wonderful blog enough.

(2) Tell everyone ten things about yourself that no one knows

(3) Bestow the award on ten other worthy bloggers and make sure you tell them they have been so honored.

Ten things about me

Since I write from my heart, I tell you folks a lot about myself so I have been racking my brain to try and come up with things you don't know. Here goes:

1. I bark too much. Any person or animal I see approaching the house or come near the door to the room I am in gets barked at. A lot.
   
2. I jump up on people. Mom tried very hard to break me of this habit but dad likes it so I still do it. Mom keeps telling dad that they can train me to only do it if invited but no luck yet on that.
3. When my mom comes home from work I go crazy for five minutes including jumping and running around the room like a crazy dog.
4. I am a shameless food beggar. Lately I have added a pitiful whine. This is one thing mom and dad does right. They do not reward this behavior. For some reason I keep doing it anyway.
5. I don't really like to ride in the car. I like going places I just don't like the trip there. When I was a puppy I stayed on the floor of the passenger side under dad's legs and it was okay then but when I got too big for that it wasn't fun anymore. On long trips I get better after about a half hour.
6. I pull at my leash something fierce even though I have a head collar.
7. I hate to get my picture taken.
8. I like to eat cat poop. Mom and dad have gated the doorway to the bathroom where the cat littet box is so the cats can get under the gate and I can't get in.
9. I only follow my obedience commands when there is a treat involved.
10. I lick my mom's fingers when she is trying to type on the computer and I want her to play with me instead.

Award Worthy Blogs

In no particular order, here are the next winners of the coveted Honest Scrap Award. I apologize if you have won before. I did do a search on your blog to check.

1) Confucious Cat: I only learned of his blog and #Purrs4Peace because I was DJing at a #pawpawty one Sunday at 3 p.m. That week we were purring for the plight of racing greyhounds. Now I join in every week.

2) I only hesitate to bestow the award on the next recipient because he may get mad at me. But what the heck - you are certainly putting your heart on display when you try to talk folks out of reading your blog. Yes, the next recipient is Sir Fudge Esq. He's not for everyone but he tells it like he feels it.

3) The Shenanigans of Shawnee the Shepherd is great about sharing his wonderful park visits. Since my mom is in the park business, this is a blog we both enjoy reading.

4) My friend Dolly's blog is also great. The Little Dog Speaks is honest and compassionate. She speaks her mind. I really loved her 2009 in review blog.

5) Next is Boris Kitty: 4 Paws for a Cause. Of course I love @BorisKitty but I also love Edgar!

6) I enjoy Mulder the X-Kitteh but he hasn't been posting a lot probably because of his chemo and all those pills he hates to take.

7) Petie the Cat has not been blogging much either but he has had health challenges as well. He and Mulder are great fighters and I admire them.

8) Next comes Fido and Wino This blog always makes me and mom laugh! We love reading about Mickey and Kayloo and their mom Shauna.

9) Call Me the Breeze is another one of my favorites by fellow DJ @kittehboi.

10) Last but not least is Rockum Sockum's View on Things. He has an absolutely amazing family and I love reading about it and seeing the pictures.

Thanks again for this great honor!