I’ve been sharing the ups and downs of Sampson’s ACL injury and subsequent surgery for the last seven months.  Throughout this process I’ve found kindred souls who understand and share the heartache of having an ill or injured pet.  So many of you have reached out to me and shared your own stories of illness and injury here as well.

You gonna be okay Bubba?

It got me thinking, there so many of us who have been dealing (or have dealt) with various medical issues with our pets.  Often times there are traditional and non-traditional treatments that someone may not be aware of when facing a tough decision.  Each experience is unique to all of us, but there is so much to be gained from sharing those experiences and treatments, as our life beliefs tend to guide us in the choices we make for our pets.  While it’s true we all share our experiences on our blogs, sometimes when we are suddenly faced with a surprise diagnosis we may not remember where we read about it, or who wrote about it.

I thought, wouldn’t it be great to have all of our experiences in one place?

I’ve been toying with an idea of a Round Robin.  It would be very similar to the “How I write” series that many of you have been doing, but it would be somewhat different.

It would work like this, any blogger (or non-blogger) who wished to participate would get a set of questions to answer.  Of course, the questions will be a basic guideline and you will be free to put your own spin on it. It wouldn’t be a blog hop per say as there would be no linky list, BUT there would be a different post every day by a different blogger and each blogger would list the next blogger at the bottom of their post.  Any non-bloggers who wished to share their experience would let me know and I would send them the questions and I would post their experience here.

I’m also looking into dedicating one page on my blog that would list every post.  Of course there would be a badge for you to display on your blog and that badge would link back to the community page.  The page would share the title of the post, which blog was sharing and a brief description of the injury or illness as well as a link back to your blog post.  I think it would also be beneficial to include behavioral issues you may have encountered with your pets and what techniques or methods you used and what worked.

I feel this Round Robin and subsequent page will be an amazing resource for bloggers and non-bloggers alike.

I plan on starting this Round Robin in the beginning of September.  That gives us almost a month to pull it together.  I’ve already run this past a few of my fellow bloggers and I do have some interest in it, but I also wanted to include you, my dear readers as you’ve helped me so much through this long journey and so many of you have touched my heart with your own journey.

To start with all I need to know is if you are interested in participating in the Round Robin.  If you are please let me know in the comments and let me know if there is a certain day you can’t participate.  

I’m also looking for a name for this Round Robin, so if any of your brilliant readers have any thoughts, please, please share them!!