Greenies Pill Pockets is a great product for pet parents who have to give pills to picky pets or for those who have pets on lifelong medication. They are incredibly convenient and easy to use. You just pull out a pill pocket, pop one or more pills into it, close it up and your pet will scramble to eat it. Seriously, check out the video to see our kids scarfing them down. They love them – they think they’re getting treats! In fact, the next day we had to start giving ALL the cats a piece of pill pocket because they would beg for some! Try them out, I bet you’ll love them as much as we do!

Disclaimer: We bought our Greenies Pill Pockets at our vet and were not asked to do this product review nor were we compensated in any way.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am excited to announce that DogTime Media is holding their very first Pet Blog Awards: The Petties!

Vote for ILRA!

So here’s what DogTime says about the contest: “You can choose as many categories as you like and nominate as many bloggers as you like. You can even nominate yourself! Once nominations are closed DogTime will select the four most popular bloggers in each category. Then you and your readers, friends, family and anyone else can vote for their favorites! The blogs with the most votes will win! Nominations close on July 30th, 2010.”

That’s right, you have until July 30, 2010! We would love if you would vote for I Love Rescue Animals in the Best Cause Related Blog category. We have been working super hard to bring quality content to our readers and to make aware all the great things that we can do for animals. We feel we’ve been doing an awesome job, and we hope that you do too! Show us some love and vote for us!

You can find out more about The Petties at the BlogPaws page, and we hope to see you all at our favorite conference: BlogPaws 2010 West!

Hey everyone! This week’s Pet Parent Files gives a few quick tips on how to give liquid dewormer, specifically Panacur, to dogs. Nothing fancy, but a nice how-to nonetheless. Please forgive the poor video and sound quality. This is an old video taken before we got our new camera. Also, that “rescue” in the background is our very own Snarf. Yeah, as if he would stay a foster for long. ^_^ We hope you enjoy and please comment with tips of your own!

Hey everyone! Be the Change and BlogPaws are at it again, asking bloggers to be the change they want to see for animals. This latest call to action involves raising donations for shelters, rescues & pet food banks to help animals in need. It’s called the “Dog Days of Summer Food & Supplies Drive” and starting today (July 19th), with your help, we in the pet blog community are going to be collecting cat and dog food for shelters all over the country. Here’s what you can do to take part!

How to Participate

• Find a shelter or pet food bank near you and call to find out whether they accept food donations. (For people in the US and Canada you can search for a local shelter and pet food bank here.)
• Print out the BTC4Pets flier then head over to your local pet supplies store to pick up a bag of food.
• Drop off the bag of food at your local shelter or food bank and have someone take a picture of you with the bag and flier.
• Write a blog post, tweet (with #BTC4Pets) and share on Facebook your pawsome achievement to inspire your friends to do the same. (Of course you can always write two blog posts — one calling your friends to join you in the food drive and the second talking about your group’s trip to the shelter!)
• Post the picture of yourself donating the food and a link to your blog/twitter account/Facebook post to the Be The Change for Pets Facebook wall along with the pounds of food donated. We’ll add this amount to the total food/supplies donated so we can all see our impact!
• Want to take the campaign to the next level? Find out how to start a pet food bank on a shoestring budget.

To help out in our town, I Love Rescue Animals is going to be starting a drive to collect food for a few local animal groups, including our favorite cat group Central Texas Feline Rescue. We are personally trying to gather donations from several different area businesses – our main being at Camp Bow Wow Austin. If you’re in town, stop by! What plans do you have for the Dog Days of Summer Food Drive and who are you going to help?

Hey y’all. We’ve got a great image for you today, and a great cat looking for her forever home. Many thanks to our artist for the week, Emma Lazauski, for taking the time to make this beautiful drawing. Also, more and more thanks to Chelsea for continuing to pull artists together for this project. Did you guys know that she does rescue transports every weekend? Yeah, pretty awesome! Great job, Chelsea, keep it up!

Meet Francesca

Francesca is a domestic short hair black and white. She was born in 2004. With a little TLC, Francesca is engaging, playful and fun. All Cat Depot cats are spayed/neutered, micro chipped, given shots (including rabies), worm and flea preventatives, and tested for FIV/FeLV. We are open 7 days a week (except major holidays), from 11-7 p.m. daily, and 11-5 p.m. on weekends. For more info, visit our website, catdepot.org. Francesca is up-to-date with routine shots, house trained and spayed/neutered.

Contact Info
Cat Depot
Sarasota, FL
941-366-2404
info@catdepot.org

Find out more about Francesca and watch a video over at her petfinder page.

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Emma is a painter/illustrator living in Sarasota, Florida. She makes messes with watercolor and tea whenever her cat doesn’t, finding inspiration for her work in fiction and in the natural world. She’s in the process of redoing her website at the moment, but you can still find her at her blog and on deviantart.