All corrections have been made (we think!) so please check for Calendar A pets one last time!
This is the FINAL preview of the design for 2025 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar A.
Please browse through the calendars to find your guys. All of your pets should be in a single calendar – either A or B. Let me know if they’re not.
Please check for your pets and make sure that all your pets are there, that the names are right, that we have the right name with the right pet, and that there’s a heart if there should be one, and no heart if there shouldn’t be one.
Clicking on an image opens the image so you can see it more easily. Use the back arrow to get back to the full post.
YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO CHECK BEFORE YOU BUY, BECAUSE ONCE YOU HAVE PLACED THE ORDER, WE CAN’T FIX ANY ISSUES YOU FIND LATER. Well, we can fix them even then, but then you’d have to buy another calendar in order to get the fixed version.
The calendar itself is very high resolution.
Here’s are the covers for Calendar A: (you will be able to choose when you order)
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
All feedback on the calendar is welcome!
We hope/plan to have Calendar B available for review later this evening.
We didn’t quite meet our December 1 goal as the first date to order calendars. :-( But we’re close. Beth had food poisoning (salmonella) and was down for the count for the better part of 5 days, so all things considered, I think we’re doing pretty good!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Sooooo glad you allowed the photo of Ozark and Billie Jean. Now I’m feeling teary.
Raven
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Oh man, just as I imagined my brother.
and Artie is just right!
WaterGirl
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Yes, we made an exception to the “no people” rule for the pet calendar. I got permission from Ozark’s beloved wife, Micky, to use the photo.
We have a second Ozark photo of him with his dog Willie, too.
Ozark is in both calendars, as is the photo of Steepejack’s beloved dog Chip. Steep loved Chip SO MUCH.
WaterGirl
@Raven: Artie is looking good!
cintibud
Looking good!
Scamp Dog
Could you please change the caption on Biscuit’s picture from “Biscuit.png” to “Biscuit”? Thanks!
Also, I don’t see the heart on her image, but I don’t see any heart on any of the other images, so that may not be a Biscuit specific problem.
Raven
@WaterGirl: She wants to do right but not right now!
Nukular Biskits
Not sure if you need confirmation here or via email or silence is confirmation … but, just in case, good to go with Summer (April), Yin & Yang (June) and Scylla & Chimera (July).
WaterGirl
@Scamp Dog: No, that was a miscommunication issue.
I am in the process of adding new images for all the Calendar A months.
Which month has Biscuit with .png in the name? Okay, I found Biscuit in January A. I have requested a new image from beth. :-)Biscuit is now there without .png :-)
WaterGirl
@Nukular Biskits: I figure no news is good news. :-)
WaterGirl
I JUST PUT UP ALL NEW FILES FOR THE CALENDAR A MONTHS.
Joy in FL
I see my awesome cats in Calendar A, and their information is perfect.
Thanks to you and Beth for making this happen, again : )
TMinSJ
My 2 pics both look good! Thanks so much for doing this again, I love it!
BretH
I see Cody and Rosie, all good!
zhena gogolia
I don’t see Duby on the inside of either calendar — is he just on the cover?
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: He is just on the cover, but I am lobbying to add him inside, too.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Okay!
Scamp Dog
@WaterGirl: Thank you!
CatRadio
My calendar girls are fine, thanks!
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Okay, we have a new December with Duby. Check up top.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Great, thank you!
Miss Bianca
Looks wonderful, awww….my four rascals are all accounted for. Thank you for pulling this together so fast!
Barbarai
Looks fantastic – all 7 are present and accounted for. Thank you, WaterGirl and Beth, for all your efforts. Each month looks beautiful.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Five of ours are in calendar A and one (Chuckie, month – May) is in calendar B! Thanks, WG!! :)
something fabulous
Love them all!
A more general backseat-design feedback thought: I wonder if it would be possible to put patterns of some kind in the blank squares: just polka dots or stripes or something, so it looks more intentional/festive? ooh or maybe the balloon man/logo in a few random ones? I know the blanks can’t be avoided, just thinking it would make the pages look more fun overall to dress the blanks up a bit!
Wolvesvalley
Daphne and Chloe look great.
xephyr
Looks good! Thank-you!
WaterGirl
@Odie Hugh Manatee: oops, we’ll have to fix that.
WaterGirl
@something fabulous: Yeah, beth has often added stripes in previous years. We have had so little time this year that I think she went with simple. I’ll check with her, though.
Never thought of polka dots!
Butch
My guys are there in February.
BigG
Poobah looks correct! The calendar looks great, thanks.
May
Seeing Buffy, Arlo and Bonny! Anti-Bob and May’s rescue central. I think there is a cute cuddle of Arlo and Bonny on beds snuggling that we sent in. In case you need a horizontal. Otherwise all good. Buffy is a veteran of the calendar at 14.5 and a yellow husky. She outlived her pack. She still kills rodents or tries.
WaterGirl
@May: With 250 calendar pics, we pretty much stick to one picture of each pet. That doesn’t mean they weren’t both great pics. :-)
sherparick
Thanks and they look great, but I am wondering where Morli’s photo was placed?
sherparick
@sherparick: I found him. He was in the month of February (Prince Little gets a double since they are hanging out together in this picture). The other pictures ended up in December. Perfect for Vivian as she was a Christmas cat (found as a kitten just before a snowstorm at XMAS in 2009). Hope you have a good one!