My owner likes shopping…sometimes in the store, but mostly online, so we are always excited when we hear news about sales. In today’s economy, you have to keep your eyes open for great sales, at least that’s what I hear the humans around here saying. All I care about is whether or not the place that they shop will have any fun things for me.
Kmart Bluelight Specials are here, and this is a good example of what we’re talking about. They are having a special sale day this coming Saturday…at least 40 great deals in stores, and deals online, too. They have everything a human could want, you can go check and see for yourself, but what about us dogs? Well we went for a visit and there was a search box along the top, so we just typed the word “pet” and a lot of options came up in kind of a drop down list, so we went to pet toys, pet supplies, and other pet related links and yes, there were things for me! So if they decide to go shop for great sales on cloths, things they need for summer barbecues, toys, electronics, things that they need around the house, whatever you can think of, I’ll be happy because I know they will also find something for me.
Am I a selfish little yorkie? Well….maybe just a little >:-)<
Oh, and my owner reminded me that we have to mention that you can follow the people who do these specials on Twitter, we love Twitter – here is their username: @kmartdealsnnews
Today when my owner was on her twitter account, we noticed that #pawpawty was in the list of trending topics (visit the twitter link to learn more about twitter if you’re clueless) and so she decided to let me twitter. We do that a lot lately. She changes her picture to mine, and I tell her what to type for me. Today I’ll be taking over for the day since it’s a monthly “PawPawty” day.
This is a special day that takes place once a month, here is the information that someone shared on www.examiner.com explaining the event:
So far, these fund raising virtual parties have raised more than $5,000 for organizations such as The Humane Society, Kitten Rescue of Los Angeles and Orphans of the Storm in Illinois. The next pawpawty is scheduled for May 2-3 to benefit the Margaret Green Animal Rescue.
For each pawparty, a theme is chosen and “party-goers” are encouraged to change their Twitter default pictures to something theme-related (see the slideshow below for some cute examples). Prizes are given away for various contests such as trivia and scavenger hunts – all the while people are encouraged to donate even just $1 to the featured charity.
Who can attend the #pawpawty?
The pawpawties are open to anyone with an interest in raising money and getting the word out to friends about the fund raising efforts. Many of the party-goers are animals, or people who tweet as their pets. There are thousands of Twitter Critters online, ranging from dogs and cats to hamsters, gerbils and even a moose!
It is not necessary to be an “animal” to attend these virtual fundraisers, however. Everyone is welcome – the more attendees, the more opportunity to raise as much money as possible for animal charities.
If you decide to join in, be sure to follow us and say hi, I share my owner’s account and we trade off regularly – http://twitter.com/happynutrition. And if you click on this #pawpawty link, you’ll be taken just to the search results for pawpawty, and see only the “tweets” related to the event. See you there, I hope!
Today, all day I filled in for my owner on Twitter, and it has been fun. It’s been so fun that I’m going to be filling in for her for the rest of the weekend. I know it’s going to be hard to get her on the computer to type for me since the weather is supposed to be so nice and she’s going to want to be outside, but I’m going to do the best I can.
She even has my picture as the avatar on Twitter right now, please follow us if you aren’t already, we’re at http://twitter.com/happynutrition
On friday my owner does something called “followfriday”, that means you suggest people that you know and like to other “followers” on Twitter. You do that by sending a message that has this word and symbol – #followfriday in your “tweet” and then you put the user names of people who follow you in the “tweet” with @ in front of it, for example, my owner is @happynutrition.
NEXT WEEK we are going to tweet about our dog and pet loving followers on “follow friday” so if you aren’t following us yet, please do! Click here to follow me and my owner, I share my owner’s account.
