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Verify Your Pet Calendar Info Today!

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We’re still shooting for 2022 Balloon Juice Pet Calendars to be available for order on December 1.

But we need your help to make our deadline!

Open Thread, 60 Minutes, I Will Vote Concert

We have 350 pet pics for the calendar, so there are two BJ Pet Calendars again this year.  We are calling them Calendar A and Calendar B.

If you submitted photos of more than one pet, all of your pets have been placed in either Calendar A or Calendar B.

Please check the Pet Calendar links in the sidebar.

This is your chance to make sure we get it right.

If your pet is no longer with us, you can have a heart next to their name, if you like.

Please check for:

  • Are all of your pets listed with your nym?
  • Is the spelling of your pet’s name correct?
  • Are ALL of your pets listed with the same calendar?  (look for either A or B)
  • Is the word “heart” there if you should have a heart for your pet?  And empty if it should be empty?

The pages in the sidebar aren’t posts, so you can’t comment there.

If anything is incorrect for your pets, or if you have questions, please comment in this thread to let me know about it.

Update:  Even if you find your nym in Calendar A, please check Calendar B to verify that one of your pets didn’t accidentally land in the other calendar.

Update 2: I am pretty sure I left out some hearts, so please check the heart column carefully!

Update 3: freeheel, I still need your pet names!

Update 4:  We have multiple Nancy’s who submitted without a name or a nym, or maybe nancy was the nym.  Anyway, I don’t know how many of these are from the same “Nancy”.  If you guys can clarify, that would be helpful.  I am pretty sure that Daffodil and Holly’s Nancy is different from the others.  I think the O’Driscol Nancy is different from the others, too.  But I don’t know about the owners of Katie and PJ.

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  2. 2.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Since I don’t have an “account”, I can’t check. It asks me for email or handle.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    We are calling them Calendar A and Calendar B.

    Calendar Joe and Calendar Kamala didn’t make the cut?

    ;)

  13. 13.

    Alison Rose

    Mine shows a heart but the kitty in the calendar is my current kitty who is still very much here. My previous kitty passed away last year but that was a different pet.

  14. 14.

    Hoosierspud

    Don’t know if it makes a difference, but Bruce Wayne is on two lines, rather than one line. For example, “Patsy Cline” is only on one line.  Thanks.

  16. 16.

    sab

    Mine are right. (Dobby’s tiny face is behind Ponyo on the right, but it isn’t very visible. He likes to swipe at people and dogs on their way out the back door.)

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I don’t see my nym under either Calendar A or B. I sent five cat photos (of my friend’s cats — calendar to be a surprise to her).

  22. 22.

    something fabulous

    all present and accounted for, including heart ?. and none where they shouldn’t be! thanks so much! ❤️

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @Hoosierspud: Weird, for me it’s on one line, and it’s on one line in the spreadsheet.  So it will be one line in the calendar.

    Thanks for asking though, because now is the time to catch anything!

  26. 26.

    jackmac

    Hi,

    Our cat Rocco in Calendar A has a heart but is very much alive. This young and frisky feline joined our family a couple months ago after one of our elderly cats passed on.

    Thanks!

  28. 28.

    Anotherlurker

    Hi WG, all the names and spellings are correct.

    ♥s for Ginger and Buddy, please.
    Thank you so much for doing all that you do here.

  35. 35.

    Dan B

    In calendar B it’s BaBoo.

    My partner spells it the way you had it.  Me suspects something nefarious afoot, or he got the 5G and I dinnit…

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    @Dan B: Defending my honor here :-) so I did a search.

    My WaterGirl inbox has 11 messages with BaBu.

    My WaterGirl inbox has 5 messages with BaBoo.

    Now I guess you have to wonder if your partner has been writing to me!

    *changed to BaBoo.

    edit: Updated in the official spreadsheet and in the sidebar.

  43. 43.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: WaterGirl, I have to apologize. I only know Duby’s name in Cyrillic. I just noticed that his mom spelled it Duby in Latin letters, so that must be correct. I’m sorry to have to ask for it to be changed back, because I should use the spelling she has (even if it doesn’t follow the usual transliteration rules). So it should be Duby.

    I am so sorry!

  44. 44.

    Joy in FL

    Everything is as it should be for my two awesome felines.

    Thank you, Watergirl, for doing so much : )

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @Alison Rose: Really!  What a horrible mistake to make.

    The hearts are the one thing I hadn’t gone back to check against all the emails and files.  I thought it was more important to be able to get the spreadsheet exports out for review, but I know there were going to be a lot of heart changes one way or the other.

  55. 55.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Present and accounted for (A list), but on two different months (Sept/Oct). Not that it really matters…lol

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Yeah, we don’t make a special effort either way – to keep them in the same month or make sure they are separate.

    Beth sorts the photos according to her secret design plan – well, not so secret.  Black and white usually goes into January, because that’s how the month feels.

    February gets photos with more than one pet because of valentine’s day.  October gets the fall-looking photos, etc.

    So it all depends on what you send in!

  68. 68.

    daize

    Hi, WaterGirl — pets are perfect as listed.  Thank you so much for doing for this each year.  We love it.

    PS — will there be a Tunch photo this year?  (apologies if I missed it)

  70. 70.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    LOL!! Never occurred to me to look under Subaru Diane! I should really just say the hell with it and change my nym.

    Shall now have a look at calendar B. Thanks.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    As we are discussing calendars, and the month is about to turn, I will note that the housecat of blesséd memory is featured in this month’s calendar (2021 version A) at her workstation on her iconic red throw. RIP, Stella.

  86. 86.

    Wileybud

    Everything looks good!  If you want to add a caption to Rascal’s may I suggest “DeJoy’s Nightmare” or “Mail Carrier’s Nightmare”?  Thanks!

  87. 87.

    Almost Retired

    My photography skills are non existent.  So next year, I’m throwing the dog in the car and driving up to Glendale to get Bill to take the photo!!

  91. 91.

    Carol Van Natta

    All good for me (Carol V) and my pets, who fortunately don’t need the heart icons.

    Thanks for doing this. I’ll be buying both calendars because I want to see All The Pets!

  93. 93.

    HinTN

    Carlotta in September needs a heart.

    Lincoln, Lightning, and Abbey in February all need hearts

    ETA – Everybody’s in the same calendar so all’s good.

  97. 97.

    cain

    Hiya Watergirl – I’ll send email as well – but you have one of my pet’s name wrong – It’s Lav not Lu. So I’ll send ya something about that. Thanks! Ren will need to have a heart by his name, the poor boy walked out of the home and never came back. :(

  98. 98.

    Nukular Biskits

    Both nym and name correct in Calendar B!
    Thanks for all the hard work.
    Can’t wait to see the real deal!

  100. 100.

    beth

    Sent an email – kitty Oscar and dog Coco are in separate calendars. No worries if it can’t be fixed – I’ll just buy both!

  102. 102.

    shirk

    In calendar B, it looks like I capitalized ‘Shirk’ on my first two photos but not the third — making them all lower-case will avoid charges of flagrant inconsistency with the infrequent times I post. Thanks!

  105. 105.

    Quiltingfool

    Thank you for this!  My info is correct!  I see I will need to buy both calendars, because my Baby is in B, and the magnificent Steve (John Cole’s boss) is in A.  I just adore that kitty!  I really like seeing everybody’s pets!

  108. 108.

    NWO Joe

    @WaterGirl:

    Only thing I can find is my nym was misspelled – should be Joe instead of Jo. We are in B.

    Not that I am the least bit vain… I am going to be happy to have her show in anyone’s calendar!

    Thanks so much!

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    @beth:  Ah.  I had your first name as the nym for one of the folders, and we sort by nym and not name, do that’s why I didn’t catch the split.

    We will definitely correct that, but that requires beth to make the change, so it hasn’t been made yet in the calendar design, so your guys are temporarily still split, but I have sent beth an email.

    edit: both of your pets are now in Calendar A. I have not updated the list in the sidebar.

  113. 113.

    WaterGirl

    @shirk: Okay, shirk is now lower case everywhere for consistency in the official spreadsheet.

    But we only put pet names in the calendar, not people nyms, so you are good for the calendar in any case.

  115. 115.

    WaterGirl

    I have a new Pet Calendar Verification post up, so I am going to disable comments on this one.

    All pet correction information will need to be added in the current post, so nothing can get lost in an older post that I am no longer checking.

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