Here is all the vital information you need for the Dogs Dinner PawPawty
Please use the hashtag #dogsdinner when tweeting so you can be seen by others at the event
You can see all of the great prizes on offer on the
You can check out the Menu created for the event by @flicka47
The Barktender and DJ Schedule so you can see who is on Duty is here
If you can spare any pennies to donate to our charity this is the link
To read more about the Dogs Dinner Charity check out the link
We hope you have fun at the event, if you want to be in with a chance of winning prizes please make sure you are following @frugaldougal who will be quizzing and our@dougalsden account as we will be acting as backup if Dougal gets thrown in twitterjail!!
Due to the continuation of accusations and postings from people who just seem to want to keep the recent issues going on and on I have been forced to remove all comments from my blog.

I have also been threatened with legal action if I do not remove specific comments so I have decided to remove them all.

All of this on the same day as sweet @petiethecat went to the bridge.

I would like to thank all those who posted positive messages about wanting the pawpawty to continue, right now that looks extremely doubtful.

I am not posting this to get a response from anyone on any forum so please let this go now for everyone's sake.
The events of the past 48 hours have left me sick to my stomach, having been accused of many things in my time I find myself in a very difficult situation.

The anipal community is one that I have loved and treasured over the past few years but recent events have made me question the rights and wrongs of my actions.

It tears me apart to see friends hurt and upset by thoughtless and unthinking tweets which once said can never be erased.

The pawpawty movement stood for a community united in one belief!

"that we could make the world a better place for those who had been forgotten or neglected or mistreated"

Yet I have been faced with a torrent of abuse in my quest of trying to resolve a situation that had already got way out of hand.

I have never stated that anyone has stolen or misappropriated funds from any of the #pawpawty events, indeed it is impossible for anyone to do this as the funds go direct to the shelters. Or in rare occasions to my paypal account via chip in before being transferred over to the shelter or charity in question.

What people choose to promote on their own time lines with or without the #pawpawty hashtag is nothing to do with me and I cannot be accountable for any of that.

And so it is with a heavy heart that I am calling a halt to all #pawpawty activity for the near future. I am not at all sure if there is any future for the #pawpawty events and all they stood for.

What I do know is that things cannot continue the way they are. We all must take time to reconsider our involvement, commitment, motives and values.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people from all over the world who have supported the #pawpawty and the anipal community, you all know who you are and without your support none of the great work we have done would have been possible.

Life is too short to spend it fighting, I have no energy left to fight with anyone about what I choose to believe to be right or wrong.

A wise old man once said something to me that has stayed with me ever since:

"Do you know what you believe in? Do you know what you stand for and do you know what you want and how you can be a part of it?"

I know what I believe, I know what I stand for and I know what I want to be a part of.

I know all of that, and my open question to the anipal community is what do you want to be a part of?

Just to be clear there will be no official #pawpawty events until notified on this blog.

I sincerely apologise to all of the organisers who have been busy getting things ready for the March #pawpawty and to all of the DJ's Barktenders, Security and Prize Donors.

This is totally my own decision right or wrong based on what I as an individual am feeling following the events of the past 48 hours.

I hope that we can come back from this stronger, wiser and more determined than ever to help all of our pals everywhere who desperately need us.

Until then mai pals.
We have not been on twitter much this weekend, as it was Mothers's Day in the Uk we decided to take care of mum as she was having a tough day thinking about Grandma.

This morning we checked twitter and saw a number of messages about some suspected fake chipin account where someone is asking for funds. I have not had the time to go through all of the details but suffice to say the usual amount of issues have reared their ugly heads.

Former friends not trusting each other, accusations flying all over twitter and blogs giving various sides of a story. In the end we may never know the truth about any situation where someone asks for funds.

It is all to easy to set up a fake website, make it look real and con trusting people into donating funds for what seems like a worthy cause. It is even easier to set up a chipin linked to a paypal account and tell the world of how you may soon have to have your dog or cat put to sleep or be homeless because you cannot afford your rent or pay your vet bills.

From my point of view all pawpawty events have been for totally legitimate shelters (NOT INDIVIDUALS) I made this point a long long time ago when I was asked to create an event for an anipal I do happen to know personally who had found themselves in an unfortunate situation being unable to pay large vet bills.

As hard as that was to refuse I did, the events run under the banner of #pawpawty have never supported an individual, always an organisation which has been researched before to ensure it is legitimate.

I have watched the situation which has unfolded over recent days time and time again on twitter, it always ends in tears as hurtful words once tweeted can never be removed totally. It is very sad that this happens and people who were friends are no longer friends and members of the community are driven away because of views they expressed supporting one side or the other.

Chip In was only used by the pawpawty events when the shelter or charity selected is not on one of the registered charity donation sites. This can be down to a timing issue in that the charity are not set up yet on one of the properly vetted and registered sites or it can because the charity did not even know about the likes of firstgiving or justgiving.

Many of the shelters we have helped are very small organisations so we have used chip in to get funds to them as most of them will usually have a paypal account set up to receive donations. In doing this we have demonstrated to many people the ease at which funds can be requested. Unfortunately there will always be some people who spot an opportunity to con people. Chip in is a great tool but in the wrong hands it can be misused for personal gain.

For this reason it saddens me to announce that from now on no pawpawty events will be able to support a charity that is not legally registered in the country of origin as a charity. This means we will no longer be able to lend our support to smaller charities which are not registered with either First Giving or Just Giving or the equivalent in the country of origin.

For the same reason we will no longer retweet requests for help for any fundraising that is being carried out using a chipin as a means of donation.

This action will of course do nothing to stop individuals setting up their own chip in, asking for support and being open to answering questions when raised about the legitimacy of their fundraising. At the end of the day anyone who has a paypal account can utilise the services of Chipin to ask for whatever they want. It should not be wrong for anyone to do this. But if you choose to donate to any non registered charity or individual then that decision is yours.

However it should also not be wrong for anyone to raise a question about this and voice concerns about possible issues. After all no one would be happy that their hard earned cash had been donated to some scammer, and if one of your friends thought something was wrong would you not want them to tell you? And anyone who is falsely accused should be more than happy to supply any additional information to confirm the legitimacy of their situation. Actions such as leaving twitter and engaging a wider community in a witch hunt against the person seeking clarification do nothing to assist their case in my opinion.

I was once accused of being a scammer by a group of individuals who said they thought it was 'funny' that the pawpawty events came round once a month when money might be getting tight and they were suggesting that I was using the funds to top up my own bank account. I was very hurt given the amount of time I have spent helping charities all over the world. However I had to get over that hurt and demonstrate that all of the funds raised went to the charities. Anyone who is legit should be willing and able and able to do the same.

Pawpawty is a great way for like minded people to get together to raise some funds for animals in need. It was never and will never be about helping individuals who have money problems, however heart breaking their story may be.

If you see a request for help being tweeted using any of the recognised hastags then it has to be up to you to check if it is for an organisation that has been mentioned on any of the pawpawty or nipclub blogs. We cannot control the use of hashtags and therefore as individuals we all must be responsible for checking ourselves.

Nothing can put right the current situation and I am very sad that some friends who have supported the pawpawty events in different ways will either leave twitter or at the very least never take part in a pawpawty event ever again.

I hope that we can move on from this situation and continue to support the great causes who need our help so very much.
Love this infographic from Dougal's Den!

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Google Pet Searches Infographic created by Jasmine Bould at Dougal’s Den for Dougal’s Den.



Mai pals it is with a very heavy heart that I have to give you the news that I will not be able to take part in this weekend's PawPawty. My mum got a phone call early this morning telling her that her mum has passed away overnight.

It has been a tough morning for us all because my mum's mum (grandma) lived over in Belfast so mum is having to sort out some flights and all of the usual things that need to be organised. It was a real shock for us all because mum was only just talking to Grandma yesterday afternoon when she was complaining about the tennis results ( Grandma so loved to watch tennis ).

From what we know she went to bed and just passed in her sleep so at least we can take some comfort in the thought that she went peacefully.

So Mum will probably have to get on a plane sometime in the next 24 hours to go over to help sort things out.

Now you know she is always running late with #pawpawty organising and she has not had time to sort out the quizzers and the quiz schedule so we thought maybe if we just asked everyone who wants to be in with the chance of winning a prize to leave a comment on a blog post that we will organise later today we could then pick the winners totally at random sometime after the pawpawty when mum has some more time to do things.

Mum will try to say hello at some point during the PawPawty this weekend but if she cannot make it please do not let that stop you from having some fun and raising some money for our shelter.  We will organise another blog post for the #pawpawty prizes later on today.

Grandma loved dogs and cats so we are sure that she will be surrounded by a whole crowd of loving anipals over the bridge.

Thanks for understanding mai pals.

Dougal and Lynn
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