For some reason people are mass-sending me entries for the contest at the last minute!!!

 I’m going to get all the entries up by Friday, then give another whole week to vote…

ANY ENTRY RECEIVED AFTER 5 PM EST TOMORROW Thursday September 2nd WILL NOT QUALIFY.

But — you are more than welcome to come back for the ThoughtsFurPaws October Contest (gifts courtesy Fun Time Dog Shop) and the SUPER-SECRETIVE-SUPER-SWEET Holiday Contest for November and December…(one hint – Holiday Contest winner (1st place) gets a gift valued at $189.99…)

Sooo… again, here are some more August Photo Contest entries, and read the older posts (here is another one to review for voting) to review the rules of the contest.  The remaining entries will be posted by Thursday, and voting ends at 9 pm EST SHARP on Friday, Sept 10. Winners will be announced on the 12th as I will be out of town…

*Full-grown animals are UNFORTUNATELY not being posted as this is a KITTEN and PUPPY contest only; all prizes are oriented as such.

8 week old Great Dane Frank

Frank at 4 months

8 week old Travis

Clancy

Emerald

Foxy

Gator

Jasper six months

Peebles

Sadie

Pretty Puppy Bear

Tika

Tika II

Sweet Praline

The August Kitten and Puppy Photo Contest lasts a whole week longer, so let’s keep those cute pet pictures comin’ in.

And don’t forget to vote, vote, vote!! I’ve only gotten like 10 votes so far, and half of them are for the same animal!!

Here are some more cute kittens and funny dogs/puppies for the contest… actually, it seems this is turning into another dog and cat photo contest for pets of any age… some people just send in pictures of their pets as they are now… oh well…

Let me know in the comments or in an email who YOUR favorite is!

Andy, Banks and Oliver

Bella

Aries

Anne

"Fi Fi the Wicked Frenchie Witch"

The Famous KC

Peanut

Putty Tat

Sammy vs Dumbo

Chloe

Daisy and Deeogie

Thomas Fiddlehead and Lewis

This is a picture of one of the July Contest winners… Diva. Here she is — all pooped out from fighting over her Porcupine toy and all those treats with her brother Dexter…

Diva and Dexter Too Tired to Tug Anymore...

The August Puppy and Kitten Photo Contest is in full-swing mode now…

Here’s the first round of pictures!

 * Remember, you can vote for up to three pets in a comment or an email to me at thoughtsfurpaws@gmail.com. You CANNOT send 3 votes for the same animal. *

Bailey

Bailey and Toffee

Ginny

Iris

Koko Bean

Koko Bean II

Logan

Oliver

Rumble the Shar-Pei

Angie Kitten

Get your votes in today or this week via email and comment! If you see your pet on this post, don’t forget to send all your friends and network here to vote! More cute puppy and kitten photos to come later this week!

It’s time for Funny Friday pictures again!! Okay so it’s actually Saturday when this is being published but Ive been super busy this week…

These funny cats and dogs photos  and cute pet snapshots are from all over the place-- some are my friends’ pets, some from Facebook, a few from those forwarded emails, and of course, some from my fellow blogger friends’ (PSST–that’s you Life With Dogs), etc… so thanks for the cute pet pictures everyone!

Taken at volunteer event @ Ohio Basset Rescue

Cute little cuddlers

I'd LOVE to know how he got up there...

Life With Dogs posted this on Facebook...

Nothin' like a Bulldog in a Baby Carriage...!

My Fave Life With Dogs Photo

Myniece Lily in the window-her fave spot:)

Yet another Life With Dogs Fave...Neil you are just too good...

I WANT THIS KITTEN!!!

Rescue Kittens from somewhere...??

What a GR-eat shot!!

From ASPCA site...cutie pie!

So tell me — who’s your favorite? I can’t decide…

Some of you may have heard these famous, funny or serious pet dog and cat quotes before – at least one or two of them - but a good friend of mine sent them to me as a “cheer-up-Charlie” note on Facebook last week.

So here they are: the most popular of ALL the funny cat quotes, dog quotes, pet loss quotes, and all animal quotes throughout history. Some famous animal quotes, mostly dog quotes and cat quotes, were not sent to me but taken from the ten million books I own on pets, cats, dogs, pet care, funny pets and animals, etc (and some that I know by heart as a rescue volunteer):

“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” – George Elliot

“Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you later!” – Mary Bly

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” – Andrew A. Rooney

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” — Gandhi

“All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler

“To err is human. To forgive, canine.” – Unknown

“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives!” – Sue Murphy

“No heaven will not ever Heaven be, unless my pets are there to welcome me.” – Unknown

“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat!” – Ogden Nash

“If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to Heaven, and very very few people.” – James Thurber

“I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine

“A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue.” – Author Unknown

“The dog represents all that is best in man.” – Etienne Charlet

Introducing the August Puppy/Kitten Photo Challenge!

It’s that time again — PET PHOTO CONTEST TIME!!!  I want to announce the August Photo Contest.

It starts RIGHT NOW and I will accept ONLY TWO entries per email pleae.

This is a KITTEN & PUPPY PHOTO CONTEST only, so please don’t sendpictures of your babies unless they’re 6 months old or younger! The entry deadline is next Friday, August 20th at 7 p.m. EST. I will then allow the whole next week for voting. You can vote once through comments (you can vote for three pets only), and once in an email.

** YOU CANNOT VOTE THREE TIMES IN 1 EMAIL FOR THE SAME PET***

And please remember the warning I posted about “vote-stuffing” last month… you will unfortunately be disqualified or, if I’m in a good mood, pushed down in the rankings if you attempt this again***

RULES/PROCESS:

1. This contest, again, is being judged by reader votes/comments. You can vote for up to three pets in a comment and up to three in one email – but not the same pet three times. Entries that do not follow this procedure will be disqualified.

2. Send up to 2 WEB-COMPRESSED JPEG,  or GIF files to thoughtsfurpaws@gmail.com. You can also just paste the photos into the email body.

3. Please put “AUGUST PHOTO CONTEST” in the Subject Line.

4. It is VITAL to include the names of your pets. *** Entries received without the pets’ names will not be considered as it gets entirely too confusing with the number of entries we get with no pet name ***

5. Send your network to the post your pet(s) appears on to vote in the Comments. Or repost the post your pet appears on, put in on Facebook, Twitter, Share This, etc, to get your followers to vote!

6. Voting ends on Saturday, August 28 @ 9 pm EST.

7. Winners will be announced (either 3-5 winners) on Sundat 8/29!

PRIZES:

** The August kitten and puppy photo contest has tons of cool prizes, including one hand-held Bissell Spot-Bot, perfect for puppies learning to be house-trained (retails value $129.99) Furminators (retails value $49.95), PetSmart gift cards (Retail Value $25.00), boutique puppy shampoo, puppy “accident” cleaning products from Clean and Green by SeaYu, pet photo albums, toys, treats, and a special surprise for the human!! ** WOWWEEEE

– Needless to say, you don’t want to miss out on this one So start sending entries to thoughtsfurpaws@gmail.com ASAP! Thx!–

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A Gift for Mom Too - A BEAGLE Book!!

On another note, the reactions I received from last month’s winners are overwhelming; you can even read about Shiloh and Shasta’s exciting package-opening, plus I put some pix of them opening the package in this post. Their owner was also SUPER-STOKED about the Beagle book I included for her, Dog Park Diary.

We Opened It! Wow- Look at all this stuff!

The first place winner was so grateful for the Bissell Vac that she was crying because she and her fiancee are in such bad financial straits and to get a box of play things for their rescue efforts was the best possible “picker-upper.”

The owner, Amber, of Simba and Murphy said: “My fiancee and I both work for newspapers and are underpaid obviously but we are dedicated volunteers to pet rescue. The Bissell vac is hands-down the most amazing pet hair pickup tool Ive ever used. It get EVERYTHING – even stuff you can’t see – and we use it on the couches and bed too! I had never thought of trying a Bissell cleaning product but from now on am a Bissell fan! Thank you for your generous prize – it was too much – it literally brought us to tears.”

Looks like help was given where needed! All-in-all over $450 worth of prizes were given last month…

So – REST ASSURED THAT YOU DO WANT TO WIN THE THOUGHTSFURPAWS.COM PRIZE OFFERINGS BECAUSE THEY’RE EXTREMELY VALUABLE!!

Get your August Pet Photo Contest entry – whether cute kitten picture or funny puppy photo – in now!

How a Bowl Should be Licked:
(How sweet the owner grabbed a camera instead of chasing the stray puppy away…!)

“Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains un-awakened.”

*Tomorrow’s problems, will always be a bit worse then today’s, so live day by day… it’s less stressful that way!

First–check out the national press release that went out about the unparalleled Petties Awards here.

“Voting Now Open for DogTime’s Pet Blog Awards”

“‘The Petties’ will crown the best of the best in the pet blogger community — Winners to be announced at BlogPaws 2010 West in Denver, September 9-11, 2010”

The DogTime Media community has more than 460 pet bloggers and over 500 publishers, allowing it to reach 29.5 million pet enthusiasts a month(1), making it number one in pets.

DogTime’s Pet Blog Awards opened for nominations on July 13th and received over 900 submissions. The top four nominees have been selected in four categories: Best Cat Blog, Best Dog Blog, Best Pet Blog & Best Cause-Related Blog.

SSooooooooo – who do you vote for? WELL DUH!!

Our wonderful friends at FidoFriendly, who run one of the greatest and most informative (and funny) dog sites on the ‘net are also in the running for the Petties, but as The Best Dog Blog. So please vote for our dear friends.

Whenyou go there to vote for ThoughtsFurPaws as Best Pet Blog, be sure to vote for FidoFriendly as Best Dog Blog!

(Remember you can vote until August 20th.)

I assure you – after you compare blogs - you’ll realize how relevant, timely and AWESOME Fido Friendly’s site/blog/magazine are!

Fido Friendly describes it like this: “Similar to the Oscars, Dogtime’s Petties honor the top bloggers in a variety of pet-oriented categories.”

 Between now and August 20th, would you PLEASE be so kind as to keep the love going and vote for ThoughtsFurPaws and Fido Friendly as Best Pet Blog and Best Dog Blog, respectively???

*** All you need do is visit this link: Click here to vote for ThoughtsFurPaws and FIDO Friendly! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!! ***

Final nominees were selected based on the number of times they were nominated by their fellow bloggers and followers. Winners will be chosen from these nominees by the number of votes they receive from pet enthusiasts by August 20th. To vote, go to http://dogtime.com/petties.

“The Petties it truly an awards program for bloggers, by bloggers,” said DogTime Media CEO, Trevor Wright. “The pet community has some very passionate, entertaining, and influential personalities, and this is the opportunity for the best of the best to be recognized by their followers.”