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2023 Pet Calendar – Check Your Info Today!

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We’re still shooting for 2023 Balloon Juice Pet Calendars to be available for order on December 1.

We need your help TODAY in order to make our deadline!

Open Thread, 60 Minutes, I Will Vote Concert

There are issues with a few of the photos.  If you don’t regularly the email I have for you, please check your email.

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We have 300 pet pics for the calendar, so there are two BJ Pet Calendars again this year.  We are calling them Calendar A and Calendar B, just as we have been doing.

If you submitted photos of more than one pet, all of your pets will be 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?
  • Is the word “heart” there if you should have a heart for your pet?  And empty if it should be empty?
  • Are ALL of your pets listed with the same calendar?  (look for either A or B)

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.

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  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    The five I submitted are properly listed (and hearted, in one case).

    When I looked for Siubhan alphabetically, it wasn’t there. Then I remembered from last year that I might be filed under Subaru. Sure enough, LOL!

  3. 3.

    Dan B

    Dan B here.  These three should have hearts:

    Furr Beast  ❤️

    Miss Peach ❤️

    Oscar ❤️

     

    Thanks

  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    Hmmm, I’m in June A and August B. Maybe because I keep misspelling my goddaughter’s dog’s name as Dubi — it should be Duby.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Who will be the first person to find the spot where I forgot to change 2022 to 2023, or something similar?

    Is this a test? Is there a prize?

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: No intentional errors.  No test.  No prize.

    It’s just that someone has caught something for all the previous years when I put up this post, so I am prepared for the possibility of corrections. :-)

  14. 14.

    Miss Bianca

    found mine, puddled up instantly when I saw the *heart* by Roxy’s name. Good on you, WG, for all the work you do putting these calendars together!

  19. 19.

    daize

    Everything is perfect, all pets accounted for in calendar A.  No pets in calendar B.  Thank you, WaterGirl, for all of your hard work putting the calendar together.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks, guys!  It’s nice to have confirmation on the ones that are good, in addition to the corrections for the ones that aren’t perfect. :-)

  24. 24.

    Di

    I’m listed as Adino on Calendar B. The nym should be Di. More importantly, however, the cats’ names are correct.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: Correct!  For the rest I was able to change it so folks could see, but I can’t add to the lists that are on the side, I can only correct things.

    At some point tomorrow I will update the lists in the sidebar directly from the spreadsheet again, so you all be able to check my work once I do that. :-)

  31. 31.

    Joy in FL

    My three animals are all correct and happy to be in BJ calendar 2023 B : )

    Thank you for being so caring about getting so many details perfect.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Joy in FL: I laughed.  Can you imagine what a shitshow it would be if people’s pets were in two different calendars?  Or if your guy got a heart and shouldn’t have, or didn’t have a  heart but should have?

    It’s totally worth it to do all this double-checking. :-

    edit: I assume we all had the same mom?  “If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.”  Pretty sure we all heard that a thousand times in my house.

  41. 41.

    persistentillusion

    Thanks for all you do to organize us jackals and our pets.  Phoebe and Spec are fine in Calendar B.  Please add a heart for Spec.

  43. 43.

    HinTN

    Mine in Calendar A are correct EXCEPT Lightning should have a ♥️.

    Thanks for the good work, WaterGirl.

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    @HinTN: You know, beth and I both thought that was the case from memory from last year’s calendar, but since I didn’t have it listed we both assumed we were wrong. :-)

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    @cthulhu: Niya by the door is such a great pic!

    Now that I know who the unknown cat is, we may or may not have a separate photo of JiJi.  But we have to keep the one of Niya by the door.  :-)

  53. 53.

    C Stars

    Hello, everything looks good with Tildy Bun in July in calendar B. Except, would it be possible to change my nym to C Stars ? It’s currently listed as cstars which is not that much different, but I do like me some capitalization and spacing.

     

    ETA thank you, WaterGirl!

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    @C Stars: I really try to get nym exactly right with spacing and/or punctuation, so I’m sorry I missed the boat on yours.

    I changed it in the spreadsheet, and when I update the files in the sidebar at some point tomorrow, you will see that it’s updated.

    nyms don’t actually show up in the calendar itself, just the pet names, but I am happy to have my spreadsheet corrected, thanks!

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @beckya57: Ah, you must be on mobile.

    I just looked and I see that I still had the 2021 calendar in the mobile menu.  (That’s not embarrassing!)

    The easiest way to get to the sidebar options on mobile is to be in any Balloon Juice post (not on the front page) and click on COMMENT in the white menu bar.

    Then, if you scroll past the comment box, you’ll find all the items that are in the sidebar on a computer!

    I copied them here for you for convenience, but if you know the trick to hit COMMENT, you can easily get to them on mobile without a ton of scrolling.

    2023 Pet Calendars

    2023 Pet Calendar A (Nyms A-K)
    2023 Pet Calendar A (Nyms L-Z)
    2023 Pet Calendar B (Nyms A-K)
    2023 Pet Calendar B (Nyms L-Z)

  64. 64.

    C Stars

    @WaterGirl: Oh! I didn’t realize/remember that the nym doesn’t appear (this is Tildy Bun’s first appearance). Thank you for changing that and I’m sorry to have asked for an unnecessary correx

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    @CatRadio: Are you sure?  Did you look in the A-K files for Calendar A and Calendar B?

    I see that you are right there in Calendar A.

    Check again

    edit: never mind.  I see that you found Ziggy after all!

  77. 77.

    Watership

    Eliza, Sam, Percy, Madaline (heart) are perfect. For Tallulah, is she allowed to have her parenthetical (Lu)? If not, maybe we should just say her name is Lula or Lu. We probably haven’t said Tallulah out loud since she was a baby, unless she’s being naughty. Then it’s, “Tallulah Bell!” :) Thanks for everything WG!

  78. 78.

    WaterGirl

    @Watership: Yeah, we weren’t sure what to do with that one, so we removed the parenthetical (Lu) and hoped you would chime in.

    If you never call her Tallulah, shall we make it Lula for the calendar?

    Tallulah Bell is cute, but we don’t want her to think she is always in trouble, forever. :-)

    edit: I have changed it to Lula, but that can still be changed if you prefer something else.

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