Nov 9, 2010

Two Cats Tuesday: BIG Things Coming!

Happy Two Cats Tuesday, Cuteheads! We have some super big, super huge, super humongous news for you today! It's so exciting, in fact, that Pimp and Moo wanted to wait until their day on the blog to share it with you. (Cats... hmph. Always taking over.)

Are you ready?

Really ready??

OK, here goes... Cute has teamed up with three fantastic friends again this year to put together Santa Paws Drive again! And it officially started yesterday!

In case you don't remember from last year, or weren't a friend yet, here's a little bit about Santa Paws Drive:

Cute had the idea to do something like "Toys 4 Tots" (they collect toy donations and spread them to needy children) -- but for shelter animals! I know that pets with homes are showered with gifts and love during the holidays, and I wanted shelter animals to feel the same love, too.

How to do it though? I wanted to do more than just drop off some toys at a local shelter. I wanted to make a BIG difference. And it seemed like the most obvious way to do this would be to create a "virtual toy drive" all online since Cute's friends come from all parts of the world!

But how? And where to start?

So I reached out to some Twitter and bloggie buddies -- @BabyPatches mom who runs NipandBones.com (we need toys, so we needed a shop!) and @frugaldougal's mom (who better to raise funds then the #pawpawty people themselves?!) -- and together we built a site, had events and raised a ton of toys, treats and cash donations last year.

The Animal Rescue League in Australia enjoying their Santa Paws Drive gifts last year!

This year, we wanted to make Santa Paws Drive even bigger and even better! So we brought in a friend from @TheKittenCrew who, along with her husband, are web design experts and created a whole new, easier to use site for SantaPawsDrive.com!

And now, after many, many hours of work, we're officially ready to collect donations! We made it SUPER easy (and fun!) to donate: All you do is go to our site, choose which toys, treats, bundles of both or just cash you'd like to donate and purchase them right there! Every single dollar helps.

Then, at the end of the drive in about a month, we'll add up all the gifts and cash, divide them between six shelters all around the world... and send them each a HUGE holiday gift package full of presents and a check! And we'll even pay the shipping so that every cent everyone donates goes right to the shelters.

A pretty kitty at Eleven Eleven Animal Rescue in Canada enjoying gifts from last year!

Are you ready to help shelter animals have a happy holiday and get toys and treats and presents like they deserve? Me, too!

I can't even tell you how excited I am about this year's drive. Santa Paws Drive is basically my baby. It is easily one of the things I'm most proud of doing in my life. Just thinking about all the shelter animals we can bring Christmas to is enough to keep me (and the rest of the Santa Paws Drive elves) working these long hours. It's truly a labor of love!

P.S. Please join us on Twitter for our kickoff party tonight from 7-8 p.m. ET by searching hashtag #santapawsdrive. We're going to have a fun Power Hour full of prizes, quizzes, fun and games -- with a special goal of spreading the word about Santa Paws Drive. If you can come, please RSVP here and spread the word!

P.P.S. Pimp and Moo will be back next Tuesday. They hope you don't mind that I took over their day to share this exciting news! Let's make Santa Paws Drive awesome for our furry shelter friends!

11 comments:

  1. We know how much shelter kitties appreciate this! Harley and I are counting up our monies and we will be donating very soon!

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  2. Great idea! Happy to help and post links on our sites, too!

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  3. DONE! You'll find the link about 1/2 way down our home page: http://www.CatnipChronicles.com/

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  4. This is such a great idea. I tried to nominate a shelter, but it wouldn't let me because I was already signed up, I guess from donating last year. I wanted to nominate Tabby's Place. Anyway we will be glad to add this to our posts.

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  5. We goats will get together to make a donation too

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  6. we'll be getting our gifts from Nips and Bones and donating this year for sure!

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  7. I donated a 10$ dog bundle :)

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  8. Wonderful!!! You should be proud! It's a wonderful thing all that are participating are doing! Thank you!!!

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  9. Great idea! Happy to help and post links on our sites, too!

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