“Who is Charley?” you may ask.  Charley is Elliot and Tracey’s beloved cat and he is running for Mayor of Montclair, a small town here in Oakland.  Isn’t he just the coolest cat in his hat?! I thought this was so adorable that I had to post their announcement and wish Charley the very best.  If you would like to vote for Charley (we did!) and support him in his campaign for Mayor-hood read on…

We are happy to announce that our wonderful tabby cat Charley is running for 
‘Pet Mayor of Monclair!” on a Green platform!!

That’s right; every year the Montclair Veterinary Hospital holds its annual election which is designed to help its sister organization, the MONTCLAIR PET AND WILDLIFE FUND. The mission of the Fund is to support the community by helping pets and wildlife in need and by fostering the peaceful co-existence of humans and animals through education.

This year a total of fourteen animals are vying for the title of “Mayor.” To vote for your favorite---and we hope that it’s Charley---simply click here: http://www.petandwildlifefund.org/mayor/. On the right hand side you’ll see ‘special events’ and below that ‘meet and vote for your favorite candidate.  Once you’re in, scroll down to Charley!  Each vote costs one dollar and you are urged to vote as often as you like!    Don’t forget – the money goes to a good cause.

Charley is the one candidate (we like to think of him as the purrr-fect candidate for this particular mew-nicipality) with a meaningful and progressive campaign platform: he furrr-vently opposes the state’s plan to spray toxic pesticides over the Bay Area’s animal and human populations this summer. In fact, his campaign motto is: “Spay—NOT Spray!”

So…if you are behind Charley and his desire to see the Bay Area remain toxin-free, we hope that you will see fit to go online and cast your vote for CHARLEY!!   You don't have to be living in the Bay Area to vote!
 
Thanks ever so much,
Tracey and Elliot
(Charley’s campaign co-managers)

Isn’t that cute?  I just luv it! Hmmm…Maybe Lucy will run next year!

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ZL:  Update on Reminex: I basically doubled up on the vits by mistake – my bad and it was a costly one.  I had 8 months of it and used it in 4! Ugh!  I called them and explained my ‘mistake’ and they extended the buy 3 get 1 free for another round, thankfully! So I decided to add another 8 months – what the hell.  I was informed that if I don’t see a difference in 1 year it ain’t gonna happen.  So I’m giving it another go.  I figure the cost is worth it compared to coloring my hair every 3-4 weeks FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE! Yes I am still a bit vain but not as much as I used to be. My roots are showing and I don’t give a damn – well maybe just a little :)

Madaline: It’s nice to see that you are starting to have an affinity for humans again…could it be because of  your stay here on earth that some of the love is returning or is it just AH? :)

Have a beautiful day!

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Are you a person with an extensive vocabulary?  Do you like to play games?  Do you like to help others? If you answered yes to any of these read on…

This was sent to me and I had so much fun playing that I thought that I would share it with all of you. Be forewarned though…this game is quite addicting!  It’s called ‘Free Rice’.  Have you heard of it? This is how you play:

When you click on ‘Free Rice’ a page will come up with a word and 4 choices.  Click on the choice that you feel best defines the word. If you get it correct, 20 grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations World Food Program.  Continue on with a new word, and if you get 5 words correct, 100 grains will be donated and so on and so on.  But be ready…the words get more difficult.  I know…it doesn’t sound like much rice but when 25,000 people die of hunger every day, and a half a million people are clicking on the game every day, all of this rice adds up!  I just love it! The more you play this award winning game, the more you feed hungry people and you learn a little something too. The more words you know the more people you feed.  Everyone benefits.  Don’t you just love this game?

Since October 2007, clicks on the free rice vocabulary game have already fed 700,000 people….over 27,000 are refugees from Mayanmar who are sheltering in Bangladesh.  And thanks to everyone who has participated these grains have also been feeding pregnant women in Cambodia, schoolchildren in Uganda and Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. 

Kids love playing this game and they are playing it all over the world!  But knowing some of you busy people out there, I can hear some of you already, “I just don’t have the time. I love this concept though, can I donate to this cause?’  Yep,  you can do that too.  For 16 bucks, a tax deductible donation, WFP will purchase a 25 kilo sack of rice for you and send it off to those in need.   How easy is that?  

Here is a revealing stat: The United Nations estimates that it will take about 195 billion dollars a year to end world hunger completely along with diseases related to hunger and poverty. Twenty-two countries including the United States have joined together to raise this money by contributing 0.7% of national income.  Interestingly, Sweden, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark have already met their goal in 2006. Others, including the United States, are being a little slow.  In fact, the US hasn’t even made a commitment of when the goal will be met, and for each $100 earned in the country the US is only donating .17 cents compared to the countries above who are donating between .80-.103 cents.  We are the second to the lowest donator of the 22 countries participating and we are one of six not even scheduled to make our commitment of 0.7%.  Sound familiar?  Hmmm….and how much are we spending every day in Iraq and when are we scheduled to leave?

Interestingly, the six countries above are all democracies.  All that is necessary for them, which includes us, to reach the 0.7% goal is for enough of the citizens to show their support. How about showing your support today by clicking away? 

Have fun!

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