Mai pals I cannot believe it is almost the end of the year again! I have been dusting down my crimbo decorations and getting ready to trim the tree!  So for the final #pawpawty event of 2010 what else could we have but a festive theme!

So get your favourite santa, angel, or elf costume ready and join us this weekend for some festive fun and games! You can even come dressed as your favourite christmas decoration!

Instead of helping just one shelter this month we will be helping 6 shelters who are all part of the wonderful @santapawsdrive project created by @yourdailycute and her helpers @babypatches @thekittencrew and yours truly little old FrugalDougal!

We have already raised an amazing $1825 for the six shelters but we need some more help to meet our goal of sending each of the shelters $800 as well as a big bunch of toys and treats for all of the anipals who will be spending christmas  in a shelter.

You can read all about the shelters we are helping at the SantaPawsDrive site, there are three in the USA ,one in Canada ,one in the UK and one in Tenerife! All of these shelters were nominated by the anipal community on twitter or facebook and we would love to spread a little christmas cheer to all of the anipals in their care.

You can expect the usual great selection of prizes at the PawPawty and you can also be in with a chance of winning one of the great raffle prizes on offer from Santapawsdrive.

Hope to see you all at the weekend, I will make sure we have a huge supply of the Catnog and Dognog we have been serving at the SantaPawsDrive events so go on drag yourself away from the christmas shopping and help us help some shelter anipals one more time in 2010!

More Soon
FrugalDougal



Please note : All of the shelters nominated for a PawPawty in December will be included in the selection process for the January PawPawty so you won't miss out on a chance to be the recipient of  PawPawty funds in 2011!

Well mai pals all of the nominations have been received for the November Pawpawty and we have put all of them in a hat and picked the recipient of this month's funds.....Drum Roll.....

The Harry Pawter event will benefit The Last Resort Rescue, who are a great organisation in West Milford New Jersey. This is a little bit about them you can see more on their site




The Last Resort is a Non Profit 501c3 Animal Rescue dedicated to saving the lives of homeless, neglected, abandoned, and abused animals.
Our mission is to provide a safe refuge, rehabilitation, and permanent re-homing for all the animals that we rescue. 
Thousands of beautiful creatures each year are abandoned, neglected, abused and left to die by the people they trusted.
Our team of rescuers, vet techs, trainers, foster homes and volunteers  work diligently to bring these animals to safety where they can learn to love and trust humans again.
Through fund raising, education and community support, we can all make a difference in the lives of these beautiful creatures.
They need our help!!! 
We are animal rescuers, this is our burden and our blessing!   

They were nominated by @snowywestie, thanks so much for nominating them Snowy mai pal!

Remember you can nominate your shelter more than once and every nomination goes into the draw. We do a random draw as there really is no other way to select the recipient, each of the shelters, charities or organisations listed below are all very deserving and I wish that we could help them all.


Have a Heart Inc Palm Beach Florida nominated by @haveaheartfl

Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO) New Orleans nominated by @DoggieDog

Hope for Paws Los Angeles nominated by @cokiethecat

Those Left Behind Foundation Las Vegas nominated by @golden_books

Camp Cocker Los Angeles nominated by @campcocker

Duncan's Place Loveland Colorado nominated by @pumpkinpuddy

Casa De Los Gatos Tucson Arizona nominated by @puppyaguineapig

Spay Neuter SOS nominated by Spay Neuter  


Southside Animal Shelter  Indianapolis Indiania nominated by @doggiesandstuff

Healing Heart Sanctuary  Kanab Utah nominated by @hemmingwayscat


St Charles Humane Society  St Charles Missouri nominated by @heartprintspets

Please also remember that if you shelter or charity is in the USA and helps cats or cats and dogs then you should also nominate them every month on @romeothecat 's website as he has a furpower challenge every month so it is another chance for your shelter to be in with a chance of receiving much needed funds.

Hope to see you all at the PawPawty this weekend.

We have a Harry Pawter theme so get your best costumes ready for a spell binding Pawty.

More Soon
FrugalDougal

Well we never ever had a happy halloween card before so I was very pleased to get this lovely card from mai pal @hemmingwayscat, it is so cute.

We are almost all set for halloween, staff got a CD from the vets which has firework noises on it so we have all been listening to that to make sure that we do not get too scared when it comes to big bangs and spooky things later this week!





Staff have been so busy with work that they have been neglecting MY blog so I have given them a strict talking to and I expect to see some improvements over the next month!

Thanks for waiting for the 2nd Sponsor Sunday update, I am blaming that new puppy Ozzy for taking up so much of the staff's time this weekend he is a big handful for such a little pup! Anyhow more of that little baby terrier soon, he has been taking up so much time already so lets get on with telling you all about Montreal Critters or @mtlcritters as they are known to many of you on twitter.

Montreal Critters are the on line store for all things small and fluffy based in Montreal Canada they are caring pet owners and have years of experience with small exotic pets.


How long have you been supporting the PawPawty Events as a Sponsor For?

Montreal Critters has been sponsoring PawPawty events for over a year. We initially discovered St Patricks' Day PawPawty and we were moved when looking at the Green Wall entitled "Bark if you're Irish!". It was such an amazing idea, with such a great potential (or should I say paw-tential :-). We participated in the following event and from then on we became a happy regular sponsor.

Why do you like to support the PawPawty Events? 

In times where every company is jumping into the social-media wagon, we are trying to be authentic. We created montrealcritters.com from the ground up with the intention of supporting animal shelters and rescue organizations — that's one of our core values, not an afterthought. PawPawty events are a perfect match for companies and individuals looking to have a direct impact in the lives of many animals in need, both around the corner and all over the world. Plus, you get to have fun and meet the most diverse and interesting anipals in the Twitterverse. It's great!

What is your favourite PawPawty Memory?

There are so many good memories... I tend to get emotional when I look at the PawPawty walls and when a PawPawty finishes with @FrugalDougal's Champagne Chicken © . That's when you know that, as a group, we've made a significant difference. I also remember getting super excited when a local animal shelter that we nominated was accepted as a recipient for one of the events. It felt great!

Anipals are so creative — there are many inspiring moments at every event. I often catch myself laughing out loud while looking at the avatars or at the event menus. And a few days after the events, when we receive our PawPawty mugs, memories come back and we laugh some more.

What animals do you have?

We currently have 3 cats, 5 guinea pigs and a fish — all of them adopted. On top of that, we regularly foster small animals while we find a permanent home for them. We usually end up keeping the ones that have been seriously neglected or need time to be re-adapted, so our home is constantly being modified to host new fluffy critters.

Note from Dougal - Check these beauties out !!

Pooky

Dumbo & Jaguar

CoCo

Charlotte

Winston

Sweet Pea

Mr Poof

Nibbles

Cheeks

Tell us a bit about what your store? 
Montreal Critters is an online store specialized in products for small pets, serving pet guardians all over Canada. We started montrealcritters.com with the intention of helping animal rescues while offering a nice selection of healthy, specialized products for small pets. We help rescues in many ways: we regularly donate food, toys and treats to many shelters in Canada. We also to increase public awareness and subtlety promote animal adoption through our monthly newsletter, Twitter and Facebook. And of course, we participate in every PawPawty event!

What do you love most about twitter?
Twitter's best feature is without a doubt its 140 characters limitation. Such a constraint forces us to be very creative. PawPawty events would not have the same rhythm and interactivity on other social networks, I believe. Another great example of what can be done within such a constrained framework is @ZackRabbit's cooking show – isn't it inspiring?

What do you hate most about twitter?
Having to rely on many different tools to participate in an event is sometimes annoying. But the new Twitter seems to provide a much better experience. We'll give it a try at the coming PawPawty event.

What is your favourite animal charity and why?
We don't have a single favorite animal charity. We've worked closely with a few local no-kill shelters such as Montreal's Jiggley Piggley Farm  and Ottawa's Ferret Rescue . We've also collaborated with Quebec's Rabbit Rescue. Montreal's Eleven Eleven Rescue is also worth mentioning — we admire their energy and dedication.
We keep on discovering new great groups at every animal adoption event we participate in. Our hope is to be able to help them, so we'll be nominating groups for upcoming PawPawty events!

What is your ideal PawPawty theme?
There have been so many incredible themes already.  Our favorites were the Halloween, Sci-Fi, and 80's PawPawtys. Future themes? Maybe there should be a Back to the Caves PawPawty! Whatever theme ends up being selected, you can count on us being there. :-)

A big thank you from me and the staff goes out to Montreal Critters for all of their continued support of the PawPawty events and for taking the time to share their story with us, and for showing us all of their lovely furries!

Woof Woof

FrugalDougal

Well I cannot believe it is this time of year already! The leaves are falling from the trees and the shops are full of pumpkins! Yep that's right it is almost time for the Howl-o-ween PawPawty all the details about the charity will be on the website soon as well as the links to the donation site. We are supporting Romeothecat 's charity this month so we will let you know the details as soon as he announces the recipient!

I know how you all love to dress up and so do mai pals at Petsmart and when the staff met up with them at Blogpaws they had some great costumes with them because they are having a special competition for the 6th Annual Halloween Photo Contest. You can enter the competition via their facebook page so be sure to check it out they have some great pwizes.

As a special treat they donated two costumes to the staff and you can see me below modelling both of them, honestly do I really look like a fairy tail princess cheerleader? Oh the shame...the only saving grace is that the outfits are both pink which as you all know is one of my favourite colours.




The things I do for charity !! I think I need to get myself a new agent, a dog of my standing should not be asked to do such things BOL!

Anyhow to be in with a chance of wining the cute pink hat or the pink cheerleaders outfit which is an extra large ( it will fit a less rotund, larger  pup  than me!) in size all you have to do is post a comment on my blog telling me what your favourite scary film is! We will then pick a winner at random and get the fancy dress costumes send out in time for the #PawPawty on the 16th + 17th October.

You have until Friday 8th to get your comments in !

Right I am off to look for a manly Howl-o-ween costume!

Woof Woof Arooo!