Thank you all so much for the great competition entries, we had lots of fun reading all of the names and reasons you guys came up with for naming the little proize pooch.

So without further ado..... the winner is drum roll....

@pumpkinpuddy

Who said that the name for the pup should be Treasure.

Thanks again for all the entries to the competition and a special thanks for all your donations for A Chance for Bliss we raised a total of $765 for the shelter who do so much good looking after all manner of animals who without them would not have any hope.

Thanks to all of you

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Mai pals as you all know we are having a special Pyjama Pawty on the 14th /15th May but as it is a mini pawty most of da anipals in the Uk and Europe will be asleep when it is happening. So we are having a special competition that everyone can join in before or during the Pawty.


The pwize is a very cute handmade doggie, he has a brown and cream tweed pattern body with a cream face and a black nose, he even has a little black tip on his tail! You can see him in the picture above with a couple of his pals, he would make a lovely pal to snuggle up with while you are in your PJ's.

All you have to do to enter the competition is to leave a comment on this blog with your suggested name for the little chap, remember to tell us why you have picked the name you decide on. We will then select a winner on the 15th after the #bwPJpawty. So go on what are you waiting for.

If you want to find out more about the Shelter we are supporting at the #bwPJpawty you can visit the Chance for Bliss website. They really do look after all the golden oldies just like me! And for those of you wanting to find out more about Bark World you will find lots of information on their site.

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Well mai pals it is time to reveal who the three lucky shelters are this month. As you all know we had three chances for your nominated shelter or charity to be a recipient of some extra funds. So we did a random selection and here are the results. 1st drawn as the recipient of the monthly PawPawty to be held on the 22nd and 23rd May is English Springer Rescue who were nominated by  @MrKiplingwoof. 2nd drawn as the recipient of the mini PawPawty to be held on the 14th-15th May is A Chance for Bliss which was nominated by @petiethecat and @danapixie. 3rd drawn as the recipient of a special $100 donation from mai pal @mattiedog is Hope Animal Shelter which was nominated by @PuppyaGuineaPig. Thank you to everyone who nominated shelters this month. I only wish we could help all of them, they are all very deserving. Please take a minute to have a look at all of the great shelters who were nominated this month.
http://www.amazoncares.org	@amazoncares
http://www.slonchs.org/index.html	@flicka47
http://orphans-of-the-storm.org/	@Kailey2004
http://www.kaninchenrettung.de	@Derrik_v_T
http://www.strayrescue.org/	@maggietkat
www.karmarescue.org	@marthasmith
http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/	@mattiedog
www.pinupsforpitbulls.com	@luckydogtreatco
www.englishspringerrescue.org.uk	@MrKiplingwoof
www.karmarescue.org	@IrietheJRChi
www.achanceforbliss.com	@danapixie
http://www.humanesocietyny.org/	@GiorgioMaltese
http://www.westmilfordanimalshelter.org/	@CathyKeisha
www.felineranch.org	Brenda Barton
http://animalrescueleaguelaurel.com/	Gatofan2891
www.felineranch.org	@felineranch
www.tabbysplace.org	tabbyplace
http://www.hongkongdogrescue.com/public/index.php	@felissahadas
http://www.hhforcats.org/	@JennyRosePetal
http://www.haws-animals.org.uk/	@emmythecat
http://www.soar.designimpact.ca/	@LaurenEgier
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/VA102.html	@KeAloha_Kitty
http://www.reddogfarm.com/	@SedgefieldVet
http://www.suncoastbassetrescue.org/	@badandy
http://www.thepetprojectmidwest.org/	Becky Mollenkamp
http://www.achanceforbliss.com/	@Petiethecat
http://www.hopeanimalshelter.net/	PuppyaGuineaPig
http://www.arfontario.com/	Jodi Tuckett
http://animalovers.org/	Kim Clune
http://www.booboozoo.org/	@grrrkitty
http://www.wearethecure.org/	@midgethemutt

Remember if your shelter is a registered charity in the USA that looks after kittys then you can also nominate them over on @romeothecat 's site to be in with a a chance of being his monthly furpower recipient.

Look out for more news about the PawPawty events on the site.

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Look at all that glorious pinkness chickness chickfestness a huge thanks to mai pals @trailerparkdogs for creating yet another great pawswall, you guys all rawk!

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Well mai pals it is time to make sure you have your nominations in for this month's pawpawty!

You have until the 7th May to get paws busy nominating your charity or shelter! You can nominate on the main PawPawty site nomination page. (If you are having any pawblems with this page please leave a comment on this blog post, or DM me on twitter)

The even more exciting news this month is that we have an extra mini pawpawty on the 14th May which is you chance to find out more about the BarkWorldExpo Event , as well as all the usual fun and games! The staff are hopping over the pond again to be a part of this event, they seem to spend more time in the USA than home with me at the moment. Grrrrr I don't mind really because it means that I get more supwizes! You can follow @BarkWorldExpo for all of the latest updates.

One of the shelters nominated for the May pawpawty will be the recipient of the funds raised at the Mini PawPawty which has a Pyjama Pawty Theme, so get your best jammies ready! You can reply to the Twtvite to let us know you are gonna be there.

Another shelter nominated for the main May PawPawty will be the recipient of the funds raised at the 24 hour pawpawty, we have not decided on the theme for the main pawpawty so get your thinking caps on! You can reply to the Twtvite to let us know you are gonna be there.

As if that was not enough good news, I am so pleased to tell you that mai pal @mattiedog who was voted Best of Twitter in March has persuaded his staff to make a donation of $100 for the next 5 months to one of the shelters nominated for a PawPawty. This is Mattie's way of saying thank you for showing your support for him and all of the anipal community, thanks so much Mattie. I think Mattie musta been  selling all the panties that the shibberingcheetos have thrown at them every time they play!

So there you go 3 chances for your shelter to get some more funds this month!

1. Main Pawpawty we expect to raise around $1200
2. Mini PawPawty we expect to raise around $500
3. Donation to one other nominated shelter of $100 from @Mattiedog

What you waiting fur? Get those Paws busy nominating!

We will announce the recipients of all of the funds on Monday 10th May.

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Frugal Dougal

Mai pals I am so sorry that I forgot to announce the winner of the Bissell Spot Bot Pet competition that we ran on the blog a few weeks ago as part of the Be The Change Blogpawty.

So without further ado.... Drum Roll....

The winner is @busybuttons who wrote this wonderful poem as her competition entry.


Thanks to everyone else for playing along, you can read all of the entries here keep your eyes peeled for some more great competitions coming very soon.

And of course a special thanks to the guys at Bissell for donating this great pwize!

Frugal Dougal

Mai pals it is with great sadness that  I listened as the staff read an article that was in the Daily Mail today about how in the UK we have got really really good at not having lots of stray dogs running around the country. At first I thought this was a good thing and then the staff did explain that it is because all of the unwanted doggies ( and kittehs and other anipals) are being rounded up, kept for a maximum of a week and then "put to sleep".

I have been involved over the past year with lots of charities all over the world and often thought how good it was to have "no kill" shelters and charities which will not put any anipal to sleep under any circumstances. All the while I was thinking that was how most of the shelters and charities operated in the UK , after all we are meant to be a nation of animal lovers.

Then I find out that all we have got good at doing is making the pawblem go away by rounding up all the unwanted animals and basically KILLING  them, thus making us
a KILL when the pawblem gets too hard to handle nation.

I am ashamed.

I am not gonna take this lying down.

I am gonna do something about this.

I am gonna save more anipals.

What are you going to do to help me?

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FrugalDougal