It’s time! It’s time!! The 2nd Annual Dogs of Blogville Contest has now begun.
First I’d like to say a really BIG thank you to Julie from the Daily Dog Blog, she’s worked so hard resizing all the photos so they would work nice on the blog. She will also be the one who handles all the technical details of the design and upload of the calendar. She is truly one amazing lady and a really good friend. Make sure you stop by and say hi.
So this is it. We’ve crossed our i’s and dotted our t’s t’s and dotted our i’s. We’ve been as thorough as we can be and we’ve learned a few things along the way and I’m sure we’ll learn a few more things in the next week. In fact, I think I’m going to make a page specifically for this contest. Hopefully next year will run much smoother for us. 😀
This is the voting portion of the Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest. It’s all about YOU and how YOU promote your dogs/blog.
Here’s how it works. You tweet, facebook, blog whatever you want but direct people to come and vote for your photo. The photo with the most votes will be on the cover AND will get their choice of which month they’d like to be featured in. I have to forewarn you, last year’s winner All Things Collie really brings their A game, this lady is hardcore. 🙂
The next eleven photos with the top votes will be featured in order (minus whatever month the winner chooses.)
All participating dogs will be featured in the calendar on the back page(s).
After the voting process is complete, we will give you information about ordering.
It’s not so much a popularity contest as much as it is you getting the word out and having people come and vote.
I’ve tried to organize everything alphabetically but I’m human and I can make mistakes, if you see one please let me know and I’ll do my best to fix it.
One more quick note before I turn you loose to look at photos. You will notice that there are two blogs in the list that don’t have photos. I’ve contacted both blogs and am giving them another day to get their photos in, if I don’t have have their photos by Monday, I will sadly have no other choice but to remove them from the competition.
About the voting process. Voting opens today at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard time (NYC) it is limited to one IP ADDRESS per 24 hour period. For those of you with multi-computer households it is important to remember that any smart phone, tablet, computer that shares a network also shares an IP address. If you vote on your computer then try and vote on your phone, chances are it won’t work, unless you disconnect from your network. If someone tells you they tried to vote and they can’t, then that is probably the issue.
Voting ends next Sunday, September 1, 2013 at noon.
The voting tool is AFTER the photos, all you do MOM is scroll down to the little circle next to Sampson and Delilah’s name and click it. The move down to the button that says VOTE and click that. Easy Peasy!!
Here is the list of participating dogs along with their blogs.
Alma and Moses from Back Alley Soapbox
Bella from I Still Want More Puppies
Bella from Bringing Up Bella
Benny and Lily from Two French Bulldogs
Blueberry from Spotty, Spotty, Polkadotty
Bunny from Tales and Tails
Cupcake from No Dog About It
Desmond from Life With Desmond
Dougall and Alex from The Dougall Diaries
Emma from My GBGV Life
Frankie and Ernie from FRANKly and ERNESTly Speaking
Freckles from A Day In The Life Of A Goose
Gizmo from Terrier Torrent
Greta, Bailey, and Hazel and from Idaho PugRanch
Hailey and Zaphod from The Hailey and Zaphod Chronicles
Kolchak Puggle from Kol’s Notes
Lassiter Chase and Benjamin from Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties
Lily and Muffin from The Doxie Life of Lily, Muffin and their Humans
Lola and Lucy from Wear. Wag. Repeat
Maya from American Dog Blog
Molly from Molly the Wally
Norman from Sand Spring Chesapeake’s
Ranger from The Adventures of Ranger – The Scottie Pup
Reilly and Denny from The Cowspotdogs
Rita from Pooch Smooches
Roxy from Roxy the Traveling Dog
Ryder from All Things Collie
Sampson and Delilah from Heart Like a Dog
Sasha from Silly Sasha the Loveable Shih Tzu
Shiloh and Diva Shasta from TEAM BEAGLEBRATZ
Shiva from Rescued Insanity
Susie “Sweetie Petunia” of The Mad Scots
Teach from Tails of Teach
Winston from The Winston Blog
Wrigs from Life with Wrigs: hike, play, eat, nap!
Zuzu from Me, You and Zu
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- Alma and Moses – Back Alley Soap Box
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- September – Bella – I Still Want More Puppies
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- Bella – Bringing Up Bella
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- December – Benny and Lily – Two French Bulldogs
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- Blueberry – Spotty Spotty Polkdadotty
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- November – Bunny – Tales and Tails
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- Cupcake – No Dog About It
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- October – Desmond – Life With Desmond
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- Dougall and Alex – The Dougall Diaries
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- Emma – My GBGV Life
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- Frankie and Ernie – FRANKly and ERNESTly Speaking
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- Freckles – A Day in the Life of a Goose
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- Gizmo – Terrier Torrent
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- Greta, Bailey and Hazel – The Pugs at Idaho Ranch
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- Hailey and Zaphod – The Hailey and Zaphod Chronicles
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- Kolchak Puggle – Kol’s Notes
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- Lassiter Chase and Benjamin – Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties
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- Lily and Muffin – The Doxie Life of Lily, Muffin and their Humans
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- Lola and Lucy – Wear. Wag. Repeat
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- Maya – American Dog Blog
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- Molly – Molly the Wally
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- August – Norman – Sand Spring Chesapeakes
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- Ranger – The Adventures of Ranger
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- March – Reilly and Denny – The Cowspotdogs
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- June – Rita – Pooch Smooches
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- Roxy – Roxy the Traveling Dog
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- Zuzu – Me, You and Zu
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- July – Ryder – All Things Collie
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- May – Sampson and Delilah – Heart Like a Dog
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- Sasha – Silly Sasha the Lovable Shih Tzu
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- Shiloh and Diva Shasta – Team Beaglebratz
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- Shiva – Rescued Insanity
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- April – Susie “Sweet Petunia” – The Mad Scots
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- January – Teach – Tails of Teach
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- Winston – The Winston Blog
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- February – Wrigs – Life with Wrigs: hike, play, eat, nap!
Click on any photo to enlarge it.
As you can see the photos are amazing, I’m so impressed with all of your photography skills and feel woefully inadequate in my feeble attempts.
Have you decided on your favorite? Okay! Then vote!
(Just a reminder, if you don’t have a dog in this contest, Sampson and Delilah would sure love your vote.) 😀
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Wow! Great photos – all of them! Stiff competition!
Oh, so many great photos! Wish I could vote for 12! (But of course, a momma’s gotta vote for her girl. Go Rita!)
Thank you so much for doing this. Regardless of how we do, we think this is a great cause! lee and phod
Jodi and Julie you have done a spectacular job! Thank you for all the hard work getting this going. The photos are amazing.
Wow! Just one vote? Its going to be really hard to choose just one!
they are all so deserving! i want them all to win!
Fabulous photos! Thanks for doing this, Jodi and Julie! This is going to be fun!
Susan and Wrigs
I should have entered a photo so I didn’t have to choose between all these wonderful ones! 🙂
Nice work Jodi!! Thank you for all of your kind words and all of your hard work 🙂 They are ALL great photos – it’s going to be a tough competition!
OMD OMD this is so PAWfectly arranged and WELL DONE… AND there are already 138 VOTES… HOLY GWALK A MOLEY. the comPETition is gonna be FIERCE.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU… so very very much fur doing this fur US and esp. fur helping BENNY with the Paw Seeds from the Calendar SALES.
WELL DONE……. BRAVO… A+ 100%
Hi Y’all!
That was easy!
Y’all come by now,
Hawk aka BrownDog
How on Earth do I choose??!! I have so many friends in Blogville, how do I vote for all of them at least once?!
Great pictures, as I’ve come to expect! 😀
Somehow I missed that there was a competition this year. Ah well.
Wow, what great entries!! How does one choose?? this is just the greatest project, you guys rock!
hugs
Bailey, Hazel & Greta
All the pictures look great!
It looks like there’s going to be some very stiff competition!
I can’t choose one. They are ALL way to precious.
Poodle wth a Mohawk.
Whoa! This is a hard one to vote for!
We voted. Have a marvellous Monday.
Best wishes Molly
Dakota’s isn’t there.
That is so not fair that I can only vote for one!
It’s on our list to join and did not realized the deadline of submission. Golden Happy to see many of our bloggie friends. It’s hard to decide … Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar
Today is a new day. I just tried to vote again and it won’t let me. We’re allowed one vote a day, right?
One vote per 24 hour period. So if you voted yesterday at noon, you cannot vote again until noon today.
You don’t know how much we appreciate all this. What a beautiful group of photos
Benny & Lily
Yay! Voting time is here. So many blogger friends and their pups to chose from.
choose. duh. 🙂
We’re so excited to see Lola & Lucy up there in one of my favorite photos from when Lucy was just a little puppy! There are so many great photos, good job everyone! I look forward to checking out all of your blogs, too!
Also – when does voting close? Maybe I’m missing something, but I can’t find that…
Next Sunday at noon.
Thanks for doing this!! I’m having fun watching the numbers bounce back and forth. But looks like Ryder has an awesome lead on everyone … such a pretty boy!
~Rebecca & Teach
Wow!! Way to go, everyone! I wish I could vote for them all…
Vote For Ryder
Go Cupcake!!
I wish that I’d found your blog sooner. What a great idea! I would’ve entered but you have plenty of awesome entries!
Vote casted and jolly interested to see who has the biggest clout!
Wow those photos are amazing, it is so hard to chose!
HUMMMMMMMMM this is the third time that I have tried to make our VOTE for the day… and it won’t let me…. It keeps saying I have ALREADY Voted fur them. Can I just TELL you that we are Voting DAILY fur BENNY and LILY… ?????
Yes you can. Are you waiting the full 24 hours?
Just voted for your fur babies! I absolutely LOVE this idea! Thank you so much for putting in the extra work for such a great cause!
We have been visiting all the blogs, and all the dogs entered are so beautiful! We wish there could be two calendars! One 12 month calendar, and one 18 month calendar – so everyone could make it into a calendar!
This was such an amazing idea, hopefully with all the people voting this year, there will be many people buying the calendars to help raise money for Benny!
Mom Kim here – been meaning to stop by and thank you both for doing such a wonderful job on this. Voting has been so easy to do and you have put so much work into doing everything for this contest – truly an amazing job!
Thank you for all your hard work in hosting this calendar competition. We were impressed by the voting tool you used. We thought it was really neat to watch the competition. We had fun pawticipating in the contest.
WOW, what a contest for the calendar spots, that was so much better then any football contest, the spots came down to the wire. Thanks so much for doing this, bettcha our buddy Benny will get a lot of support from this. Gotta go take a nappie poo, Me, Mom & Dad are worn out
Loves you lots
The Mad Scots
Da Sus
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