Showing posts with label #pawpawty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #pawpawty. Show all posts

Mega Dudefest

Mai pals I just wanted to say a huge thanks to you all for organising the Mega Dudefest coming up on Sat and sun this week in my honour. It all started a few months ago when I found out that I was not very well and had a tumour in my bladder, at that time a few of mai dear pals said that they wanted to have a special event for me. I was incredibly touched and honoured to get so many messages wishing me well.

When I found out that I was poorly I did not want people to be sad because I have been lucky to have such a happy life full of love and good pals to share the ups and downs with. So it was fantastic when mai pals suggested that we have a pawty to celebrate, little old me. Of course you know I could not have a pawty without helping out some other anipals so at this weekend's Mega Dudefest we we will be helping two shelters.




The 1st one is a shelter that my great pal @emmythecat introduced me to, some of you may know that Emmy and her hoomans foster little kittens from this shelter and look after them until they are big and strong enough to go to a new furever home. Emmy was one of my very first pals on twitter, and she also inspired me to set up the pawpawty events after I saw the competitions she was having on twitter to help raise funds for Red Nose Day which is a big charity event in the UK. So this is my little way of saying thank you to mai pal @emmythecat for all her kindness on twitter and also for her good work looking after the foster kittys.


The 2nd one is a lovely rabbit shelter in Germany, which my pal @RettetKaninchen introduced me to. These guys provide a safe haven to abandoned, abused, and neglected domestic rabbits with the aim of placing them in a new furever home. As you all know I like to try to chase rabbits in the smelly field where I go for my daily walks ( don't worry I am too slow and a little blind now so I never ever get even close to catching one!) , so I thought I would be a good doggie and help the great people at this shelter help my little furry bunny pals. I hear that they are needing to fix a very leaky roof at the shelter so perhaps we can raise some funds to help with this.

So mai pals I am gonna have a great time at the dudefest this weekend I hope to see lots of you there. As for my health well things are doing ok at the moment, I have medication that I take every day to keep the pain away, and to help my liver cope with the medication that I have to take. I sleep a lot of the time, when I am not keeping an eye on the staff, because you know I have to keep them on their toes! All I know is that each and every day is a blessing and I hope to be around for a while yet to help save more less fortunate anipals.

One paw at a time mai pals

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Frugal Dougal 
Monday, May 31, 2010 | , , , |

Happy PawPawty Anniversary......What a year


Well well well mai pals PawPawty is almost one year old, yep on the 17th of March last year we held our very first 24 hour pawpawty. This is the paws wall created by the lovely @emmythecat for the event. There are some pals on there who are now over the rainbow bridge so to you mai pals I say Sláinte, you are in our thoughts often.

Back then in 2009 we only had about 15 pwizes to give away, now we have over 50 each month thanks  to all you kind pals for donating great stuff.

We also did not have so many great DJ's we had not even thought of having a fancy menu or barktenders to serve drinks and noms, and we had to bark and hiss at the spammers and norty peeps ourselves cause the Sekurity team had not even been invented! Now thanks to pals like @fergusthedog,  @javethacat , @georgetheduck , @snick_the_dog we have whole teams of anipals who help out each and every month.

I want to say a huge thank you to each and every one of you who have helped make all of this possible, your passion and creativity continues to burn bright. Every week I hear of great new ideas and events that are helping animal charities all over the world. Together we really can help animals one paw at a time.

What a year, what a lot of fun and games we have had and of course what a lot of money we have raised, in total we raised almost $25,000!

So it seems only fitting that we get out the green outfits again and have another St Paws celebration, I know the PawPawty is a few days after St Patrick's day but the Irish ( my staff is Irish so I can say this) usually party for days anyhow.

So with the luck of the Irish we will have another great PawPawty and heres to another great year of helping animals one paw at a time.

More Soon
FrugalDougal

PS remember you still have until the 15th March to nominate your charity or shelter to be the recipient of this month's PawPawty, just post a comment on Nomination blog post .
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | , |

Anipal Winter Olympics PawPawty


Well mai pals hot on the heels of the very successful #rudypawty yesterday where we raised almost $600 for Maine Coon rescue in memorial of our great pal and barktending master @rudyCKat, its time to get ready for the official Feb #PawPawty.

You all voted the Anipal Winter Olympics as the theme and I am glad to see that lots of you have been already getting into the spirit of true olympians by taking part in the #teddyolympics. What a talented bunch all those teddy's are mai pals. 

So the Anipal Winter Olympics starts at the usual times on Saturday 20th February and goes on for a full 24 hours.

Why not come along and join in the fun and games, and help another great shelter The Pet Samaritan team in Salt Lake City Utah, are recipients of this month's PawPawty event and they also have the support of @romeothecat 's Furpower network so we should be able to help them with some much needed funds.

If you want to donate a prize, help out at the #PawPawty then please get in touch with @frugaldougal.

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Frugal Dougal
Sunday, February 14, 2010 | , , , |

CALLING ALL ANIPALS



Anipals, I am  Zack, (also known as Zack the Hack). I normally don't get to address you pawsonally, but I have decided that I need to rally the  troops to help mai pal Dougal get some more votes in this Shorty Award thing that he has been nominated for.

Now our Dougal is a very hard working doggie as any of you who have been to a #PawPawty will know, he keeps us awake on a regular basis tapping away on the computer thing. So we decided to ask him why he does all of this stuff and what it is all about. Here's what he said...Oh and he had to answer in 140 characters or less just to make it a bit more fun!

Zack: What is all this  #Pawpawty nonsense?
Dougal: Its a monthly 24hr virtual party to have fun, win pwizes, meet new people and to raise funds for animal charities all over the world

Zack: Sounds a bit crazy to me who comes along to such things?
Dougal: Well we have lots of animals, kittys, woofers, furries, as well as ppl who care about animals, we even had @GodzillaofJapan turn up at  one

Zack: Sounds interesting so how much moula you raised then?
Dougal So far in less than a year we have raised over $23000, for over 20 different shelters all over the world , thats a lot of bowls of cat food

Zack: So how does it all work?
Dougal  Anipals nominate charities, donate prizes , donate funds, win prizes and generally have fun at the same time, we love to pawty on down

Zack: So what's a DJ, CJ, or FJ?
Dougal Every pawty needs music so we have Dog Jockeys, Cat Jockeys, Furry or Feathered Jockeys, we have Bunnies as well but don't call them BJ's!

Zack: How do they play music?
Dougal Simple when you know how they use Blip.fm to create a playlist and then tweet the tunes, sorry am I getting to teckinal fur ya mai pal?

Zack: I heard that you have drinkies and noms as well?
Dougal: Of Course we have a great team who create tasty morsels to tempt our taste buds, as well as gallons of drinkies to make the pawty rock


Zack: Why do you you all dress up? I have seen some weird outfits
Dougal: We love having fun and dressing up is part of that, we have some great pals who know how to use pawtoshop who help us pick our outfits


Zack: Does it not get a bit mad at times?
Dougal: It is hard to keep up but we use apps like tweetdeck and tweetgrid to make sure that everyone can join in and see who is at the #PawPawty

Zack: Ever get any gatecrashers?
Dougal: Well we have a great sekutiry team who report all those nougty ppl who turn up half dressed or worse and pretend to be B R I T N E Y

Zack: So why do you want to win this Shorty Awards thing?
Dougal: Simple mai pal if more people join in it means more creative ideas, more amazing connections , more donations, and more animals saved

Zack: What will you do if you do not win?
Dougal: I will carry on my mission of saving and helping more animals one paw at a time, after I have dunked my head in a bucket of bacon beer BOL

Zack: is it true that being a finalist means you got an invite to New York
Yep , but I will be sending the staff to New York, as I really hate airplane food and I've heard it's kinda hard to go wee wee mid atlantic

Zack: Ok so what do we need to ask everyone to do?
Dougal: We need new votes from pals who have not voted before so pls ask everyone you know to vote, if they care about animals we need their vote

Ok Dougal thanks so much for that Shorty Guide to the #Pawpawty, just so everyone knows the timeline for the final vote here are the details from the Shorty Awards Site


Congratulations to all the Second Annual Shorty Awards Finalists!
From Monday, February 1 at noon EST until Friday, February 5 at noon EST, you'll be able to vote among finalists. You can also keep voting in any of the community categories.
All nominations will count as votes for the final round. If you've already voted for a finalist, there's no need to vote again unless you want to update your reason.
The Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences will use a combination of criteria to select the winners, including the number of votes, the reasons given in nominations, answers to the Shorty Interview (which you can still take here) and the content of the finalists' tweets.
If you are a finalist, please fill out this form so we can get in touch with you.
Get your tickets now for the ceremony on March 3 in NYC.


So mai pals thanks for reading this little interview I did with the CDO of #PawPawty Mr Frugal Dougal himself. Round here he is just a little dog, but now we know he has a big heart. So why not take a few minutes to vote for him, Oh and we hear he has a few pals who are also in the running so go on while you are there please show BZTAT , ZackRabbit and VAstateparks some support as well.

More Soon
Zack The Hack
Monday, February 01, 2010 | , , |

Viva WAG Vegas PawPawty Update


Mai pals as you know we usually have a draw for the monthly PawPawty charity , and I just want to say thank you all so much for the nominations. You can see them all on the pawpawty blog comments.

However following the terrible news about the earthquake in Haiti I have had a number of requests to help out the animals in Haiti in some way. So this month’s Pawty will be helping the The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) who have formally agreed to head up a coalition of groups to address the needs of animals in Haiti following the earthquake that devastated the country.

You can read more about the work they will be undertaking on the IFWA site and also on the WSPA disasters blog. I have set up two widgets, one for UK donations and one for USA donations, that way if you are a tax payer in your individual country the charity will get extra tax benefit from your donations. The donation widgets are on this page on the right and also on the PawPawty Site.

I have set the limit at $500 and £500 but I am sure that we will be able to raise more than this to help the animal relief organisations working together in Haiti. 

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Frugal Dougal
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | , |

Who will care for the Animals?



Anipals I have felt great sorrow and concern for the people of Haiti following the devastating news of the massive earthquake which they have suffered. Most of us will never have to go through anything like this in our lifetimes and I feel extremely contrite having posted so many messages complaining about the snow and general bad weather conditions in the UK. What is a bit of snow and ice compared with conditions and repercussions that the people in Haiti face.

My perspective has changed.

Therefore I would like to dedicate the PawPawty this month to helping the animals in Haiti. It is difficult to get information at the moment about the best way to channel funds but a number of you have pointed out that there are a few teams getting ready to go and help the animals. I would like to help fund their mission.

Of course all of you who have nominated a charity for this month's PawPawty may be disappointed, however I feel their need is greater than any of us could ever imagine.
I can assure that all of the charities or shelters already nominated will be entered into the draw for the February #PawPawty so you nominations will not have been in vain.

I am hopeful that the anipal community will share my view that at this time we should look to the greater need of others in this tremendously difficult time.

Frugal Dougal
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | , |

I'm all Shook Up


Hey mai pals it is time to sort out all the details for the first official #PawPawty of 2010, and it is gonna be a good one.

We have already had a few themes suggested, but I fear it would be cruel of me to not go with the wonderful suggestion of @perrythebirman and @fergusthedog for an Elvis theme. The King would have been 75 this year if only he had sought some help from others to help him with the demons that plagued him.

So in his honour we will have a big Elvis  #PawPawty Viva Wag Vegas style. So I know you aint nothin but a hound dog but I don't want to hear you crying all the time. Lets have some great dressing up costumes, you can go to town it is Vegas after all!!

We still have the important matter of deciding on the charity/shelter we are supporting this month so if you want your shelter or charity to be in with a chance of being the recipient of the Elvis #PawPawty then please post a comment on this blog post detailing who you want to nominate.

Dougal will then pick the recipient and we will broad cast the result.

If you have already e-mailed Dougal about the charity you want to nominate then please check below to see if we have got your charity/shelter listed. If we have forgotten, then please remind us, we are both getting a bit older these days and sometimes miss an the odd e-mail.

The #PawPawty is on the 23rd and 24th Jan ( 24th and 25th if you are in Aussie or Kiwi Land)  so we will have to pick the recipient no later than the 19th so get your nominations in  you have ten whole days to nominate your #PawPawty recipient.

If you want to get in touch privately then please contact Dougal  on his e-mail Woof(at) FrugalDougal(dot)(co)(dot)(Uk).

Get your paws busy with the pawty costumes and don't forget to nominate your charity.


More Soon
Frugal Dougal



Saturday, January 09, 2010 | , , |

You never know your luck


I recently posted a message on twitter asking mai pals what special prizes from London they would like to have a chance of winning. I got such great responses that I thought I just had to share with you guys.


@buttons_kitty  - How about some treats from London? Every-fur loves noms


@petcarebev - Interesting post cards! 


@hamishthecat - ohhhh!!! Let me think on that one, though mummy immediately says "gentleman's relish." blech. I don't like that stuff


@ellabellakitty - ummmm, like kinds of prizies would I like from London? Umm... Oes, I noes - TUNA! or @medusa 's oceanpie! Tuna aways AOK


@WTBeckham - crown jewel chew toys from buckingham palace - PAWPLEASE!


@princessgwenie -  Fish & Chips & shopping at Harrods for food in the food court!!!Drooling****


@kittehboi -  rattus rattus from the London Dungeon. MOL!


@perrythebirman - frugal mai dougal in a royal box!


@georgetheduck - McVitie's Jaffa Cakes QOL Typist says they're the bomb


@winecountrydog - some ale & mince pie fur mum, i think mum'd be easier to handle on walkies. BOL


@theotigsy - Us too! We want a Dougal-box too!! -T&T


What a great list of pwizes, I will do my best to get pwizes like this sorted out for some #PawPawty events although I think that Dougal in a Box might be a bit difficult to organise.


Thanks for all the ideas mai pals  & remember it is not long until the next #PawPawty on the 21st November. 


More Soon
Frugal Dougal
Friday, November 06, 2009 | , , |

Pawpawty Update


I have been busy catching up on my sleep since the #pawpawty and also making sure that all the pwizes are on their way to all you lucky winners.

Just a quick update to say a very big thank you to all of the wonderful anipals who helped make this pawpawty one of the best ever despite some pretty major technical difficulties. I have not fully resolved the problem with tweetgrid, but I will make sure that we know the situation before the next pawpawty. Thanks to all of you who tried to make things work by setting up new accounts, and registering on friendfeed. Hopefully we will not have to do this too much in the future, but it is good to know that we have a back up if twitter breaks again.

Theme
Well you all did me proud with the outfits that you were wearing, but I can honestly say that I have never seen so much bad big hair or such a weird and wonderful selection of clothes, did people really wear that stuff? Yep some our silly humans did.

Music
The DJ's did us proud with the great selection of tunes, a big thanks out to @flothecat, @dobie_evgeni, @hotMBC, @Hanseebundee, @cosmohavanese, @inigoflufflebum, @orangegene, @Chevy_boo, @Totallylamont, @Theotigsy, @Jorton, @Flicka47, @Morriscat, @Pandafur, @BunnyJeanCook, @Rustythecat, an extra special thanks to @fergusthedog for arranging the DJ schedule, he is a star for helping organise this part of the #pawpawty. If you would like to volunteer for a DJ slot at the next #Pawpawty please contact @fergusthedog.

Donations
Thank you so much to all you for the great pwize donations all of the details of the individual donors and donations made are on my website, and they will stay on there for the next week or so until we start the July #PawPawty planning process. I have already started to receive donations for the next pawty so once again a huge thanks to all of you for your support.

QuizMasters
The huge number of contests we have is only possible with the help of the great quizmasters, so a big woof to my pals @emmythecat, @sylviedog, @mishakidd, @brewskiebutt, @cosmohavanese. You guys are the best, thank you for all your help.

Charity
As you all know we were helping support the angelsforanimal shelter this month and thanks to all of your donations, we exceeded the target at the PawPawty. And the great news is that if you did not get a chance to you can still donate until the end of this month, so if you have any pocket money left over please consider a small donation, every little helps anipals who are not as fortunate as we all are.

Winners
All of the pwizes should be in the post very soon if they are not already on their way to you, if you want to feature on future blogs, please remember to take a photo with your pwize let me know so and I can post a special pwize winners selection before the next #PawPawty.

Security
For the first time ever we had our own security team led by Captain @snick_the_dog, the guys kept any undesirables out by putting the bitey on any spammers who tried to gate crash the event. They also helped keep us anipals in line, you know how it is sometimes, one to many barkeritas or niptinis. Read their fantastic report. A big thanks to @shawneeshep, @samsoncatt, @indy tiger, @GD_kenworth for all the peace keeping they did. And if you want to protect and serve then please contact @snick_the_dog or @Shawneeshep

New Events
We tried a new event at this #PawPawty a quiz called a #pawbquiz which lasted just over an hour and featured questions about cocktails, famous anipals, and the 1980's from @joecassels it was great fun and we will try to see if we can a quiz again at future pawties.

Next PawPawty
I can't wait for the next pawpawty, which is is on the 11th & 12th July, so make sure you put the dates in your diary. If you would like to suggest a theme please post a comment on this post and I will arrange a poll in early July.

If you would like to volunteer to be a quizmaster or a donate a pwize please e-mail me at woof@frugaldougal.co.uk.

More Soon
FrugalDougal
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | , , , , , |

#pawpawty the day after

Once again we had the most wonderful time at the #pawpawty. It seemed to me that there were a lot of new anipals at this pawty which as you know is very good news for us anipals who love to make new pals and have fun.

There was a fantastic amount of dancing and everyone really seemed like they could not keep their paws from tapping. There are some films posted which we will leave on for a week or so just so you can relive your favourite moment.

Pwize Donations
The response from pwize donators was unbelievable and in total we had over 60 pwizes which meant that there was always a competition on the go and the anipals had lots of fun finding answers to questions, as well as finding out more about the charity we were supporting. And even better news is that we have already had some offers of new donations for the next pawty.

Margaret Green Animal Rescue
As you know we were supporting a UK charity Margaret Green Animal Rescue Centre at this pawpawty and at the time of writing this we have exceeded the target of £750, so a huge thank you to all who supported by donating.

Pawty Planners
The pawpawty is becoming more organised every time we do it and thanks to @fergusthedog and @cosmohavanese we now have a full range of fantastic DJ's who just love playing tunes to keep the pawty anipals dancing. Thanks to all of the DJ's who I will do a feature on later this week.

We also had some great quiz masters organising competitions so a big thanks goes out to @babypatches , @emmythecat, @sylviedog and @cosmohavanese. And thanks to @petiethecat for getting the word out about the #pawpawty on his blog.

We will be busy over the next few days making sure that all your pwizes are in the post so make sure you are watching out for the post man, and remember to take a picture and post it on line so we can see what you won.

Official #pawpawty website
If you want to keep up with all of the official pawpawty news please make sure you have a look at pawpawty.com which was created by the wonderful @sylviedog and @mugsydog. 

Trying to cash in on our success
The only twitter accounts that are in any way affiliated with any of the individuals who help organise and participate in the charity events on twitter, are our own individual accounts of course, and @realpawpawty. 

If you are in anyway concerned about any accounts on twitter who are posting inappropriate content or spam about, or to, any #pawpawty events. Please try not to engage in a conversation with them, as this only gives them more publicity. My policy will be to give them the cold shoulder and to DM @spam detailing the issue or concern. 

More Soon
Frugal Dougal
Monday, May 04, 2009 | , , |

Cool Tunes from clever anipals

Well well well what a clever lot of anipals you all are. First I want to bark a big thanks out to @fergusthedog and @cosmohavanese who have masterminded the barktastic, meowmagic, supersqueak DJ schedule you see above.

DJ schedule for the #pawpawty
The schedule has been created to make sure we have coverage for the entire 24hrs of the #pawpawty, it does not mean that you can't tweet songs if you are not on the list. Everyone is welcome to send out songs at any time.

You will be entertained by music blips throughout the #pawpawty. Many of the anipals have bliplists that can run continuously. You can access playlists from the DJ's blip.fm page by clicking on "playlists" in the Stats box and then "play" in the bottom left hand corner of the page when the playlist comes up

For anyone new to blip.fm
  1. Announce your blip list or playlist at the beginning
  2. Blip a new song every 10 minutes or so, depends what else is going on at the pawty, competitions and prize announcements etc
  3. Listen to the conversation for inspiration
  4. It's ok to reblip other anipals and ppls songs or add them to your play list its a compliment
  5. Above all have fun, its a #pawpawty, and if you get stuck just ask, your pals will help

To all the DJ's and CJ's
To all of you what can I say? You amaze me, thank you all so much for helping to make this probably the best #pawpawty ever. And remember to have some fun with your pals. See you all very very soon.
Sunday, April 05, 2009 | , , |
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