I’m canceling Sexy Fail Saturday this week (trust me, you didn’t really want to see it, anyway :uhoh ) to blog for a good cause—doggies!

You know how much I love helping animals, so when I heard about this from @smexys_sidekick over on Twitter, I wanted to do my part, if I could. And today is the last day!  (I’m not even sure I’m doing this right, but she said just to copy & paste the bulk of the post & link up to the blogroll.  So that’s what I’m attempting to do. :flash )

According to Pedigree, over 4 million animals arrive in shelters every year due to abandonment, breed rescue, or other circumstances. To help shelters provide the care these animals need, they have an insanely successful campaign called: Write a Post, Help a Dog. Designed for the individual blogger, Pedigree promised to donate 20 pounds of food (one bag) for each blogger that blogs about this campaign. In 2010, 391 bloggers participated resulting in over 7,000 pounds of food donated to various shelters. YEA!!

This year, Pedigree wants to increase their goal to 10,000 pounds of food to be donated to a designated shelter. How can you help? It’s all very simple. Do what you do best—BLOG!

How you can help in 2011

Simply spread the word about Write a Post, Help a Dog 2011 and once again Pedigree will donate 20 pounds of food for each blogger’s post. Here’s all you need to include in your post:

• The Write a Post, Help a Dog program is aimed at raising awareness and food for the more than four million dogs that wind up in shelters and breed rescues each year.
• For each blog post mentioning the Pedigree Foundation from now until midnight ET on September 3, Pedigree will donate 20 pounds of its new dry Pedigree recipe food for dogs — its best recipe ever — to a shelter, because every dog deserves leading nutrition.
• The Pedigree Foundation — a 501 (C)(3) nonprofit organization is committed to helping dogs by providing grants to shelters and rescues and encouraging dog adoption. This year the Foundation has already raised more than $376,570 against its goal of $1.5 million to carry out its work to fund grants that not only help shelters operate, but to further shelter innovations.

The Pedigree Foundation depends on charitable contributions from individuals to carry out its mission to help dogs find loving homes. In addition to writing a blog post, here’s how you can help:

• Donate online at http://pedigreefoundation.org/donate.aspx
• Apply for a shelter grant from the Pedigree Foundation by completing a form at www.pedigreefoundation.org
• Purchase Dogs Rule Gear at www.dogsrulegear.com where the proceeds go to the Pedigree Foundation to help loving dogs find a home. SPECIAL OFFER: Get 10 percent off Dogs Rule Gear by using the promo code BlogPaws10 from August 22 – September 30.

Then, link up to our Blog Hop below, hosted by the Pedigree BlogPaws bloggers to help spread the word about Write a Post, Help a Dog. This is a Blog Hop! 125 entries so far… you’re next!

Comments

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   Donna says:

   I think I posted it correctly

   On September 3, 2011 at 11:46 am

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     Heidi says:

     Great, Donna, thank you! I was a little unsure, too…I just cut & paste from the site where I found it, then tried to make sure all the links matched up correctly. Hopefully Pedigree will be able to figure it out & count us as part of the effort. :money

     On September 3, 2011 at 11:54 am

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   Jessica Lemmon says:

   I posted, too! I couldn’t resist the opportunity to help other pooches since we are at capacity with our two in the Lemon household. :play

   On September 3, 2011 at 12:11 pm

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     Heidi says:

     Oh, come on. You could fit another…12, maybe 15 in there with you. Let’s give it a shot. :evilsmiley

     Thanks so much for jumping on the doggie food band wagon! I love it when we can help the furry babies!

     On September 3, 2011 at 5:30 pm