That's Noice!

No really, it does. Check this out:

I still wouldn’t want one as a pet, though…

Puppy factories are the cruel hidden industry behind the pet shop window and glossy internet sites. The reality is mother dogs are kept confined and pregnant their entire lives to meet the unceasing demand of the pet industry. When their reproductive life is over, they are killed and replaced. These dogs spend their entire lives confined in dirt pens, in tin sheds or in raised wire cages with little or no veterinary care, they are simply treated as breeding machines. Their life when they hit the petshop isn’t much better.

Please help spread the word and boycott this brutal business. Don’t be an unsuspecting link in the supply chain of cruelty.

The lead-up to Christmas is a critical time for puppy farmers who rely on impulse purchasing at pet shops in order to profit. We can stop the puppy trade by not buying puppies from pet shops and showing others why they should do the same.

Oscar’s Law aims to change the way our pets are kept, bred and sold.

• Abolish the factory farming of all companion animals.
• Ban the sale of factory farmed companion animals from pet shops and online trading sites.
• Promote adoption through rescue groups/pounds/shelters.

Watch and share this video to help educate others why we should not be buying any animals from pet shops.

What can you do to help?

• Don’t buy anything from businesses that exploit these poor animals, especially puppies and kittens.
• Help educate family and friends why is it is not OK for puppies and kittens to be sold in pet shops.
• Sign the online petition
• Join Oscar’s Law on Facebook and become proactive!
• Email the Premier, the Leader of the Opposition and Minister of Agriculture in your State, you can also email Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. The website makes it easy, they have the letter for you,  just add your details and hit send!

Redkite is an Australian not-for-profit charity and they have asked that we all give a Gift-in-Kind this Christmas and lighten the load for families affected by childhood cancer. A gift of $75 can connect parents across Australia to vital counselling support over Christmas, no matter where they live.

Do you have people in your life who already have everything? This is the perfect practical gift to give to those very people — they can then start the new year feeling warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that they’ve helped a family who’s doing it tough.

It’s hard to think about sick kids at Christmas, but they’re out there. Imagine the  joy you could give these littlies and their families.

Redkite provides a range of services that help support families caring for young kids with cancer. This Christmas, over 8,000 families on the cancer journey will feel weighed down emotionally and financially. These gifts can lighten that load:

• A gift of $55 can pay for a child’s mobile phone bills so they can stay in touch with their family this holiday season.
• $75 can connect parents across Australia to vital counselling support no matter where they live.
• Donating $120 can help a child manage the stress of gruelling treatment by funding a Redkite music therapy session.
• Giving $800 can help a bereaved parent talk with others who are grieving in a Redkite telephone support group.

To donate, please visit www.redkite.org.au or call 1800 334 771.

Those with cats will know the drama that surrounds Christmas and cats. Eating the tree, eating the tinsel…then little puddles of glitter vomit. And that’s if you can even get the damn thing to stay up, or the decorations to stay on.

Sick of all of it, I had planned not to do the tree this year. Till I came across the idea of a twig tree. After searching everywhere for a decent one at the shop, I thought bugger it I can make my own.

It was harder than I thought, trying to find a branch that was a decent shape. After traipsing round the bush with no luck I ended up stealing one from the neighbours dead tree *shh*

Gave it a light spray of white paint, stuck it in a pot with some pebbles and there you have it.

I LOVE it, best xmas tree we’ve ever had. Of course, it is covered in cupcakes :P I think I love even more that there are hardly any branches so the kids can’t go jamming it full of ugly crap. And there is no hassle with storage. Toss it out and get a new one next year.

Having 2 insideish dogs, we have been through our fair share of dog beds.

Most have been eaten, or peed on and ruined. I came across Molly Mutt beds about 12mths ago, and they are the perfect pet bed!

The best part of these beds is in the stuffing. Regular pet beds can be near impossible to wash. But the molly mutt bed is just stuffed with your old clothes and blankets, washing the insides is just as easy as washing the cover.

I wash mine at least once a week, and it still looks great. I have just bought a second cover, so we can rotate them so the robots last a bit longer ;) To make it even easier to keep clean, they have recently released a water proof cover to go under the regular cover. Perfect if you have a peer like me.

Molly Mutt beds come in a range of funky fabrics as well as different shapes and sizes. So there is a perfect bed for all the furry family.

This weekend (2nd & 3rd December) the Finders Keepers markets will be held in Sydney. If you like handmade crafty stuff, don’t miss it!

More information over this way. :)