Upside Down Kitty Photos

Roy believes that cats should get equal billing with dogs (see previous blog post about Upside Down Dog Photos), so he convinced his Mom to send us this:



Upside Down Dog Photos

Just discovered a website that posts pictures of upside down dogs ... every day!  Here's Charlie, the American Bulldog.

Check them out at http://upsidedowndogs.com/ and enter your own photos for posting!

Justin Bieber's 2nd Ad for PETA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced on its website that Justin Bieber stars in his second ad for that organization.  (I only know who he is because I have an almost-12 year-old granddaughter.)

The grammy-nominated artist stars in his second Public Service Announcement to ask the public to adopt animals from shelters rather than to purchase them from pet stores or breeders.  For more info on his PSA, click here.

Nationally, PETA says, six to eight million cats and dogs find their ways into animal shelters--and half of them wind up being euthanized.  If you'd like to follow PETA's blog, it's called The PETA files.

What's YOUR Favorite Animal Shelter?

At the moment, I have two:  AniMeals and Missoula Animal Control, both in--you guessed it--Missoula, Montana.

AniMeals is a no-kill shelter and animal food bank that has more cats than anything else.  We adopted Grace and Molly from AniMeals.  Here are a couple of their kitties, Conrad and Sophia:

Sophia

Missoula Animal Control has dogs and cats, and we adopted one of each from them:  Charlotte and Max.  Here are some of their critters:



Gus

John Henry

Lebowski

Tell us about YOUR favorite animal shelter and show us some of the faces you can't resist.

So, How do You Feel About Michael Vick?

I've been reading all kinds of things about Vicks and someone proclaiming to be a dog lover thinks he should get a dog.  Tell me, how do YOU feel about him getting a new dog?

Here's some stuff I've stumbled across during the past few days:

LA Times articles:

1. http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/01/the-conversation-michael-vicks-redemption.html
2. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks-20110104,0,5889912.column

Raised by Wolves blog:  http://cynography.blogspot.com/2010/12/profane-open-letter-to-leader-of-free.html

Best Friends blog:  http://blogs.bestfriends.org/index.php/2010/12/29/when-the-president-calls-about-the-vick-dogs/

Bad Rap blog:  http://badrap-blog.blogspot.com/2011/01/worthy-white-house-literacy-project.html