To try to raise some money for Animal Rescue and to brighten up your day each and every day in 2011, LauraW has come up with this fantastic idea for the Balloon Juice store:
Pets of Balloon Juice 2011 Calendar Call For Photos
Since no one here ever gets enough darling pet photos, we’re going to create a 2011, 8.5 x 11, 12-month calendar for the Balloon Juice CafePress Store. using your best photos of your pets! We’re shooting for an end of October availability date so there is plenty of time for holiday shopping in the store. As usual, all profits from the sales will go to Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue in Western North Carolina
Guidelines:
2 photos per pet maximum, please.
Submissions accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 26.
So get those photos rolling in, folks, so we can have this put together in time for Christmas.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Great, great idea. The lard loves a crazy kale lady. Who is the LauraW person though?
edit, back in the front row, fuckhead will swoon.
jacy
Aw, I’ve missed LauraW. Great idea!
gnomedad
I love it. Give one to your favorite family wingnut for Christmas! I presume the URL will be on it but no other clues. Heh-heh-heh.
stuckinred
On the way!
Wormtown
Good idea. I will definitely buy one, maybe even submit a kitteh foto. I think you should also consider doing a book of the rescue stories. I love to read them. If Sully can sell a book with “the view from my window”…..
WereBear
I’m on it!
RedKitten
Fantastic idea! I wish I had a pet, just so that I could submit a photo!
(My friend’s dog had pups two weeks ago…I am resisting the temptation, despite their Lhasa-terrier-mutt adorableness.)
PurpleGirl
Does it have to be a pet we have? Can it be an animal a friend has (or had)?
cleek
links are in the mail
Cat Lady
Every month will have that many pictures? That’s a lot of pictures! I think each picture should have a name on them, for reference. That way the dog owners and the cat staff can get a shout out instead of saying how cute the tiger cat is that’s 4 down from the third row in from the left in April. Also.
Rosalita
Great idea! Pictures sent!
arguingwithsignposts
Hmmmm. Will have to wade through a lot of Lady Smudge pics…
Judy in SD
You have lured this lurker out from the shadows. Pics of the most handsome of cats has been sent.
Turgid Jacobian
You should make a photomosaic portrait of the Cole fam pets together from as many subs as you can.For the cover?Or maybe use the bj logo?
Ken Lovell
Do you need a letter of informed consent from my pet?
WaterGirl
@arguingwithsignposts: I nominate the one you called “walking the line”!
mr. whipple
Our cats demand a full page each.
Rosalita
@cleek:
your kittehs are beautiful!
arguingwithsignposts
@WaterGirl:
This one?
Wow, so long ago.
MikeJ
@Ken Lovell: If your pet is under 18 a guardian will need to sign.
Litlebritdifrnt
Ya see anyone who reads my blog (ie no one) will know that I have just been presented with a new itty bitty kitty that has nothing to do with me, I mean really, she is a complete stranger and now I am stuck with her… cause whatever, in good news she is getting fat, while she was a skinny kitty, she is now chowing down on the food that is always at the front door and she is packing on the pounds people!
Linda Featheringill
I think you will get lots and lots of totally adorable photos. How about the year divided up into weeks, with 52 lovely furry beings?
gbear
Photos of my two torts should be in your mailbox. I bet you get enough photos to fill half a decade’s worth of a page-a-day calendars.
Linda Featheringill
@MikeJ:
In that case, Sally the black cat can sign for herself. All the rest will need notes from me or my daughter.
Linda Featheringill
Are you doing page-a-day? That would be awesome!
cleek
@Rosalita:
thanks!
Loneoak
Submitted! Turnip the dog is so going to make it on the calendar.
Mnemosyne
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Do you still have Samantha? I’ve been wondering about her, but a little afraid to ask since she was already so elderly when you took her in.
srv
How about a Tunch action figure?
ruemara
hmmm, you calling for some raw, naked, animal action? How Paladino of you.
debit
It was hard to decide which one to send of Chloe. Sadly I don’t really have any decent pics of the kitties at the moment.
J.
What, 12 months of Tunch isn’t good enough?
On second thought, BRILLIANT idea!
May I submit pix of friends’ adorable new kitten, Leonardo Da Kitteh (which I took)? I think the first two, of Leo looking kittenish and playing hide-and-seek with the pumpkin, would make excellent calendar fodder. Though I am also fond of these shots of my lanky black kitty, Felix, (walking on the vent hood and drinking water from the faucet).
Decisions, decisions…
debit
@debit: For example, this one was almost titled “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Litlebritdifrnt
@Mnemosyne: Samantha did a Samantha and dissapeared. However, due to the fact that the food at the front door disappears overnight I am firmly of the belief that Samantha is out there and she is merrily living her life in the swamp and coming home to eat at night. If I may quote a movie right now “I don’t know whether she is happy, but I know she is free”
Mnemosyne
@Litlebritdifrnt:
That’s kinda what I thought. But she’s a tough old lady if she managed to get to 19 as an outdoor-only cat, so you’re probably right.
And your new potential kitten is cute as a button! You’ll need a properly skeptical name for her given those suspicious looks she’s shooting you.
MikeJ
OT, but alert Nate Silver and anybody interested in polling, Murder He Says, in which Fred MacMurray plays a pollster comes on at seven.
“I’m with the Trotter Poll. We’re like the Gallop Poll but not as fast.”
A hard hitting look at what happens when people stop asking questions and start getting real.
Why yes, I did just pour my third, why do you ask?
WaterGirl
@arguingwithsignposts: Yep, that’s the one! I haven’t been around as much to see the most recent photos, but I always liked that one.
TaMara (BHF)
@RedKitten: Am I the only one who thinks that SamKitten should be included as the human representative of BJ cuteness?
Kristine
Pics of King and Gaby sent.
debit
@TaMara (BHF): Not the only one.
Yutsano
@debit: Thirded.
And I just hacked my finger open. I’m suddenly rather grumpy.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Fourthed. I will consider pics of the boys and see which ones catch my eyes.