Well mai pals as the staff jet back to to the UK it is time for you to get your nomination in for the March #Pawpawty recipient. It is real easy all you have to do is make a comment on this blog post telling everyone who you are nominating and why you are nominating them.

As an extra special incentive this month we will be giving the anipal who nominates the lucky shelter or charity one of the exclusive shorty award pins that we got at the event this weekend, so what you all waiting for get nominating.

Nominations close on the 15th March, winner announced on the 16th and the monthly #Pawpawty is on the 20th and 21st.

I am just gonna have a little sleep while the staffs fly over the pond, tweet you all tomorrow mai pals.

"The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter. These unique awards are for the Twitter community, by the Twitter community. Online voting is public and democratic, culminating in an awards ceremony that recognizes the winners in 27 official categories as well as those in brand new crowd-sourced ones."

They are not like some of the contests where people who were clever with a PC could set bots up to vote 24 hours a day. These guys are actively watching out for any dubious activity, they are legit and the winners get invited to an awards event in New York.

I was so pleased for the whole of the animal community on twitter when you guys got me to be one of the five finalists, but the contest is not over yet!

In order to stay in the game we need to be in the Top 5 on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 11:59:59 pm Pacific time so please please continue to ask your friends to nominate me.

You can vote for as many people as you like in as many different categories, but your vote only counts once ( as far as I can tell by the rules) so to keep me in with a chance of winning, you guys need to get your pals who have not already voted to vote for me.

Of course I would be thrilled to win, but even to stay in the top 5 until the closing date would help highlight the wonderful work that we do every month for animal charities all over the world. Something which is only possible because of your tremendous support, caring and love that you have all given right from the start almost a year ago.

So while it is not cool to beg, I do it with all of the best intentions, help me get there so that we can continue this great challenge to change the world for animals one paw at a time.

Here is the link to take you straight to the page to vote for me @frugaldougal

While you are there why not show your support for two other great pals of the PawPawty events, @bztat and @zackrabbit

Thank You all so so much from the bottom of my doggie heart.

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Frugal Dougal


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watch out if we stay in the Top 5 through to Friday we will have a special thank you mini #PawPawty for all you crazy Pawty anipals

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.

Yep thats right mai pals, it is time to get nominating for the recipient of the November PawPawty funds.


I did receive some Nominations but due to some technical problems with a few of our Mac's we do not have access to any nominations that were made in the last month( we lost them all!!). So if you want your favourite shelter or charity to be in with a chance of being selected then here is what you need to do.


All you have to do is leave a comment against this post giving the name and if possible a link to the charity or shelter that you want to nominate, if you have time why not tell us all why you think they should be the PawPawty recipient.


We will then arrange for a televised (now that the staff have worked out how to do You Tube) draw to take place where the recipient will be selected by yours truly. We thought this was a better way of selecting the charity as we do not want anyone to get repetitive paw injury from having to vote ( like we did in September).


You have until the 6th of November to nominate, and the draw will take place over the weekend of the 7th- 8th November. 


Please remember that we like to support smaller charities who do not have a massive advertising/marketing  budgets or hundreds of thousands of people already supporting them.


So what are you waiting for get busy with the paws.


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Frugal Dougal