It's been about a month since I first found out about the Stop Killing Dogs Petition which will be presented to South Korean officials so that dogs will not be eaten as food in South Korea! (Yes, dogs are eaten as food in South Korea!)
When I first signed the petition, there were about 225,000 signatures. Now, a month later, there are almost 300,000 signatures, so progress is being made!
However, the goal is 1 Million signatures before the petition will be presented to officials! So we have a way to go.
Each day about 5,000 dogs are brutally killed in South Korea to be eaten...so Please sign the petition and retweet this on Twitter. Here is the link http://www.uniteddogs.com/stopkillingdogs/
It will only take about 15 seconds to sign the petition and it will mean so much to the helpless dogs!
I greatly appreciate each and every one of you who has signed the petition and retweet this information to spread the word. It is helping!
I am looking forward to the day when there are 1 Million signatures...and you can help reach this goal!
Please keep spreading the word! Together, we can make a difference!
Thank You!
Carole
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Black Cat and the Engineer
I am always intrigued with the ways in which anipals fit into peoples’ lives… whether they live on a ranch or in a highrise apartment building. Joggers have dogs who enjoy running with them. Ranchers have dogs which guard and herd their livestock. Fashionistas, like Paris Hilton, turn tiny dogs into fashion accessories.
Meet Cashmere
With all her high tech things, her cool place to sit is in an ordinary shoe box!
Reminds me of the holidays when little kids start playing with the cheapo box and wrapping paper rather than the ultra-expensive toy!
Slowly, but surely, every item for Cashmere has become automatic.
First, there was her water dish.
This high-tech bowl has constantly moving water. To me, it looks like a miniature toilet bowl the way the water swirls around in it. But, unlike a regular toilet bowl, this one runs on electricity.
Next was the automated food dispenser..sort of like a huge gum ball machine.
It is programmed to dispense a certain about of food at a specified time. The variety of settings is pretty amazing…from the number of meals per day, to the amount per feeding! This gizmo is the only one that’s battery operated. (I guess that’s so in event of an electrical outage, she won’t go hungry!)
Cashmere understands how it works…she even knows to wait at her bowl a few minutes before the food comes out!
The most recent acquisition has been an automated litter box.
It is electric and has a motion detector that tells it when to use the little metal fingers to rake through the special litter and clean the box.
Each gadget has special instructions for how to get the kitty comfortable with how it operates, and Cashmere has had no difficulty getting used to her new cat contraptions. I would have guessed in a previous life, she was a Princess, but who knows? Maybe one of her incarnations has been as an engineer!
Please understand, these gadgets have NOT been a substitute for personal attention and love. Each evening, Cashmere sits with Scott to watch TV. Every night she sleeps in the bed with him. In fact, once, when she sprained her leg and couldn’t jump, he put the clunky cedar steps from his hot tub next to his bed so she could climb up to her spot on the bed. (He didn’t buy the special steps made for pets since this was just a temporary measure.)
Two Paws Up for Scott for saving homeless kitties before they went to a shelter. His first cat, Smokey, was a rescue from his college days. Smokey was living in the parking lot outside his apartment one cold Winter, apparently abandoned when someone left town at the end of the semester. He adopted Cashmere as a kitten from his vet’s office when Smokey was getting elderly.
All in all, I’d say this is one Black Cat that is pretty lucky!
I can’t imagine what the next gadget will be, but I am sure when Scott spots it, Cashmere will be the proud owner of the newest thingamabob made just for cats!
• Know of any other automated gadgets for cats that Scott doesn’t own?
• Do you have any special routine, activity or gadget that fits your pet to your lifestyle?
Thanks for stopping by...See you tomorrow!
Carole
PS: Be sure to look for the key words "November Contest" for how to win either the Paw Print Locket Necklace or the Paw Print Business Card Case!
PS: Be sure to look for the key words "November Contest" for how to win either the Paw Print Locket Necklace or the Paw Print Business Card Case!
[Photos and Text Copyright 2009 Carole of CloudK9.com All Rights Reserved.]
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Welcome to My First Blog…Together We Can Change the World and Help Dogs!
My first blog was going to be a fun quiz about dogs, until I found out about the “Stop Killing Dogs Petition” to stop dogs from being eaten in South Korea. Yes, you read that correctly! Dogs being eaten in South Korea!
According to the information on the Stop Killing Dogs website over 2 Million dogs are brutally killed every year in South Korea!
There is a petition to put pressure on the South Korean government to stop this practice and the human consumption of dog meat!
The petition will be presented to the Korean officials by the Korea Animal Rights Advocates when at least 1 million signatures have been collected. At the current time, they are about 25% of the way to their goal of 1 million signatures. That means we have a lot of work to do to save our anipals!
The petition states that:
• Animal torture should remain illegal in all forms and in all countries.
• The government of South Korea has to ensure that Animal Protection Laws are followed in their country.
• Dogs are people's companions and helpers, not livestock for meat.
• Dog farms, raising dogs for food and killing them for meat should be made illegal.
• Selling dog meat in restaurants has to be banned.
If you have other questions, their FAQ Page explains why the dogs are tortured, etc. ( I will not go into those grim details here.)
What Can You Do?
Sign the Petition http://www.uniteddogs.com/stopkillingdogs/ Since you came to this blog, you are probably a person who loves dogs and animals…so please, follow the link and sign the petition. All they need is your name, email address and country…it should take about 15 seconds to enter your information for the petition.
Please Get the Word Out…Tweet It, Put it on Your Website, Email it to Your Friends, etc. Some of the people we contact may overlap (we may have some of the same followers on Twitter, know some of the same people, etc.), but advertisers know that sometimes people need to see a message several times before they act on it. So seeing the message from several people can be a good thing!
Please don’t think ”Well, I don’t need to do this because everyone is already doing it.” Even getting one more signature gets us one step closer to ending the torture of innocent dogs. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women] to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Don’t Delay! As they say on their website “The faster we get 1,000,000 signatures, the sooner the horrible life of the unfortunate dogs in South Korea will get better.”
I’ve Made It Easy to Copy and Paste This Message: (and it’s less than 140 characters for Twitter!)
Please sign the #stopkillingdogs petition to stop dogs from being eaten in South Korea! http://www.uniteddogs.com/stopkillingdogs/
Those of you with furkids know how much joy they bring to your life and how little they ask in return. So please, help the innocent dogs in Korea that can’t speak for themselves.
Thank You!
Carole
PS When I was in 6th grade, I went around my neighborhood getting signatures to stop animal cruelty. I was by no means the “door-to-door salesman type” but I felt very deeply that something must be done to help innocent animals.
So here I am years later, with the same deep passion to help animals that can’t speak for themselves. The methods have changed: it’s no longer a paper petition being taken door to door, now it’s an online petition being distributed via Twitter, email, websites, etc. Now I am able to reach far more people than I ever could by going door to door gathering signatures.
But the same belief that we are the ones who must speak out to help animals still drives me to try to make the world a better place.
According to the information on the Stop Killing Dogs website over 2 Million dogs are brutally killed every year in South Korea!
There is a petition to put pressure on the South Korean government to stop this practice and the human consumption of dog meat!
The petition will be presented to the Korean officials by the Korea Animal Rights Advocates when at least 1 million signatures have been collected. At the current time, they are about 25% of the way to their goal of 1 million signatures. That means we have a lot of work to do to save our anipals!
The petition states that:
• Animal torture should remain illegal in all forms and in all countries.
• The government of South Korea has to ensure that Animal Protection Laws are followed in their country.
• Dogs are people's companions and helpers, not livestock for meat.
• Dog farms, raising dogs for food and killing them for meat should be made illegal.
• Selling dog meat in restaurants has to be banned.
If you have other questions, their FAQ Page explains why the dogs are tortured, etc. ( I will not go into those grim details here.)
What Can You Do?
Sign the Petition http://www.uniteddogs.com/stopkillingdogs/ Since you came to this blog, you are probably a person who loves dogs and animals…so please, follow the link and sign the petition. All they need is your name, email address and country…it should take about 15 seconds to enter your information for the petition.
Please Get the Word Out…Tweet It, Put it on Your Website, Email it to Your Friends, etc. Some of the people we contact may overlap (we may have some of the same followers on Twitter, know some of the same people, etc.), but advertisers know that sometimes people need to see a message several times before they act on it. So seeing the message from several people can be a good thing!
Please don’t think ”Well, I don’t need to do this because everyone is already doing it.” Even getting one more signature gets us one step closer to ending the torture of innocent dogs. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women] to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Don’t Delay! As they say on their website “The faster we get 1,000,000 signatures, the sooner the horrible life of the unfortunate dogs in South Korea will get better.”
I’ve Made It Easy to Copy and Paste This Message: (and it’s less than 140 characters for Twitter!)
Please sign the #stopkillingdogs petition to stop dogs from being eaten in South Korea! http://www.uniteddogs.com/stopkillingdogs/
Those of you with furkids know how much joy they bring to your life and how little they ask in return. So please, help the innocent dogs in Korea that can’t speak for themselves.
Thank You!
Carole
PS When I was in 6th grade, I went around my neighborhood getting signatures to stop animal cruelty. I was by no means the “door-to-door salesman type” but I felt very deeply that something must be done to help innocent animals.
So here I am years later, with the same deep passion to help animals that can’t speak for themselves. The methods have changed: it’s no longer a paper petition being taken door to door, now it’s an online petition being distributed via Twitter, email, websites, etc. Now I am able to reach far more people than I ever could by going door to door gathering signatures.
But the same belief that we are the ones who must speak out to help animals still drives me to try to make the world a better place.
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