Monday, October 5, 2009

"Pawpawties" for charity

A dog and a cat best friends, pretty crazy if you ask me. A dog and a cat hosting their own twitter site, now that's crazy! Not so crazy for these two friends. Romeo is a Persian cat from North Carolina and Dougal is a cairn terrier from England. Their "human" parents claim they are really the ones behind the screen doing all of the work, but if you ask Romeo and Dougal they'll tell you it is all about them. After all they are the inspiration! Together with their parents they post daily on their websites, twitter,facebook and on their blog! Once a month they host "pawpawties on Twitter to raise money for various pet rescues, and animal shelters. They also have a fundraising program called Furpower, that allows them to collect money for The Humane Society of America, among others. Furpower does have some corporate sponsors so they are usually able to double the amount raised by donations. They just began this fabulous journey in March, and have raised money so far for Animals in Distress in Harrisburg PA, and Kitten Rescue in LA. They use the websites firstgiving.com and justgiving.com to collect the pledges and provide tax receipts to all of the wonderful donors. For more information on these crazy pets you can visit The Daily Herald or any of the for mentioned sites. Toby says to make sure you check them all out, it is a pretty cool thing. He seems to think he needs to have his own thing going on! I told him he is cute and convincing but I am not to sure about having his own site, he does not need to get a bigger head! =)

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