Cleo's Day Blog | Dog Advice, Cute Pics, and Life Lessons from a Rescue Dog in San Francisco

Giant Doggie Love

World Series Game 4 today and as you can see here, this dog loves her PL as much as he loves the San Francisco Giants. Shhhh you can't see his face (unlike me he's shy), but PL is shining his own brown eyes filled with love right back at me.

Friday Friend - Unwelcomed Visitors?

Dog Halloween costumes will be arriving this weekend. Usually we don't get real dogs dressed as a shark or a hot dog and bun covered with mustard. Though with our new neighbors, we might see a Whattup Dog Halloween costume from Target.

Best Dog Advice

My Best Dog Advice. As we dogs get older we need to watch our weight, get plenty of mental & physical exercise and above all else - gets lots and lots of beauty sleep!!! About 15 hours each day should help with any dark circles and brighten the white of your eyes.  Unfortunately that much napping won't do anything to help any halitosis...

Wordless Wednesday - Scary Dog Halloween Masks

Influence Positively Questionnaire - Mike Arms

Michael Arms became President of Helen Woodward Animal Center in 1999 after serving ten years as district manager for the ASPCA in New York and twenty years as Director of Operations for North Shore Animal League.

Since he developed the, “Iams Home 4 the Holidays” adoption drive in San Diego in 1999 the campaign has found homes for more than 3,278,000 orphaned pets worldwide. Mike also established the Center’s, “Animal Center Education Services” program to teach, “the business of saving lives” to shelters worldwide.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? My idea of perfect happiness is being able to wake up in the morning feeling healthy both physically and mentally and turning on the news to find total peace and harmony in the world- that mankind has finally got the message that we need to be humane to each other, as well as the animals that are put on this earth to share the planet with us.

If you could come back as a dog or a cat, which one would it be & why? I would definitely want to come back as a dog. Even though I love both species, I have personally witnessed more catering to our canine friends. I've seen canine lovers take their friends to the beach to romp, cook homemade meals for them, give them a great bed to sleep on, buy toys and treats, and tell all their troubles to. So yup, if I had a chance to come back it would be as (wo)mans' best friend.

Dog Loves Rabbit - Rabbit Loves Human - Human Loves Dog

Grouchy Puppy birthday celebrations continue! Blog Paws West had lots of dog people, cat people and a certain human mom to a bunny rabbit.  Not Mr. Bunny Rabbit, the puppet from Captain Kangaroo but the adorable Vicki Cook, hard working mom to equally adorable Bunny Jean Cook!

My female captured a quiet moment at the start of the pet conference action and here is @vscook sharing some love, which I totally appreciate especially during my birthday homecoming festivities. November 9 is almost here!

Friday Friend - Fair Trade Friend

Dogs live in the now.  Feel the puppy zen.  I love in the moment too! Here is my new friend from Japan who welcomed my gift of fur and affection, and in the spirit of global exchange, gave me lots of love and pets in return. Now that is what I call fair trade.

Birthday Celebration Giveaway - Grouchy Puppy Style

November 9 is my official personal homecoming day, and a HUGE holiday around here. (By "here" I mean my house, not the city and county of San Francisco, though I'm working with my District Supervisor. BOL)

This year we want YOU to join us in the celebration!!  My friend Ruby Dog gave us the great idea of a GIVEAWAY. If all goes well, hopefully this is the first of many giveaways throughout the holiday season.

Since I love giving away cuddles, furry drive-bys and kisses when I'm on my "wanna go for a walk" and when visitors are over, we thought why not give a special gift directly to one of YOU! I can't mail a cuddle but I sure can mail this Morphing Mug we had made on Zazzle!

Just like me, it has two sides and changes in an instant.  Click through some of the past year's family, romp and playtime and tour guide moments, and you'll see what I mean.

This is your chance to wake up in the morning looking at my gorgeous "mug" on your own mug. Without the morning breath. When it’s cold, it’s just a simple black cup. When you add any hot beverage (water, tea, coffee, etc.), the cup turns white and the image comes to life! Woof!

"Why don't you take a picture, it'll last longer!"

Here are 3 ways for you to enter this FREE GIVEAWAY

1. Follow Cleo's Day on Google Friend Connect (Leave a comment in this post telling us so I can confirm)
2. Become a Fan on Facebook (Leave a comment in this post telling us so I can confirm)
3. Become a Facebook Fan AND upload a photo of your own mug anipal face! [Counts as double]

Rules & Details:   This giveaway is open to US residents. Giveaway runs from October 21, 2010 through October 29, 2010. This prize has been provided by my PL.   Don't forget to leave a valid email so we can contact the winner!  A random-number generator will be used to select the winner on October 30, 2010.

Argh!! Wordless Wednesday Halloween

Influence Positively Questionnaire - Roxanne Hawn

A professional journalist, Roxanne Hawn doesn’t just love dogs. She deep-down requires them in life. Roxanne blogs about her fearful border collie, Lilly. Called Champion of My Heart, it’s a real-time memoir about life with a brilliant, sensitive dog always at her side. In September 2010, Roxanne and Lilly won the first-ever DogTime Media Best Dog Blog Award. Roxanne also writes Dog Food Dish, a blog for K9Cuisine.com.

Since she started freelancing full time in 1999, many top dog magazines have published her work, including The Bark, Healthypet, Modern Dog, AKC Family Dog, AKC Gazette, and Clean Run (a dog agility magazine). She also writes for many pet industry trade magazines, including some in the veterinary profession. Roxanne’s other work in the lifestyles niche spans The New York Times and Reader’s Digest to Bankrate.com and WebMD. She recently launched her first Be the Change effort, called Never Shock a Puppy, with a coalition of other pet bloggers.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Well, you would not believe the avalanche of sadness and worry and stress I’ve had in the last 15 months or so, with several deaths and several ongoing illnesses in the family. So, my answer is probably different than it would be years ago or years to come. For me, right now, perfect happiness is being free from worry or grief. Other than that, I’m happiest on days that are just warm enough, just sunny enough, just quiet enough, so that I can be fully present in the love and abundance of life with the people and dogs I adore. Our society focuses on action, and I’m a very task-oriented person, but I think true happiness comes more from being than from always doing, doing, doing. When I make wishes, they are usually for a prosperity of peace and ease.