What Now!?

Well, I think I can go ahead and mention a new project that I’ve been working on. I’ve put togeher a little company called Silver Lining Ideas, www.silverliningideas.com , with the intent to make iPhone/iTouch applications that will help benefit animal rescue.

Just the other day after a couple of months of work, we finally sent our first app to Apple for approval. The app is called Rescue Cleaner and it should be live in the Apple App Store around the 28th of September. Here is the promo write up that will be on the apps Apple webpage -

Is your iPhone/iTouch screen dirty? Then Rescue Cleaner is the app for you!
Rescue Cleaner has lots of dogs just waiting to help clean your screen. You can have Fargo the Landseer Newfoundland, Tina the Golden Retriever, Woody the Greyhound or any of the other dogs clean your screen. Just select one and watch them go to work cleaning your screen.
Best of all, while you watch one of Rescue Cleaner’s dogs clean your iPhone/iTouch screen, you can feel good knowing that you just helped an animal find a new home! A portion of the proceeds from Rescue Cleaner are sent to animal rescue groups, helping them find animals new loving homes.
Features:
> Benefits Animal Rescue.
> Real drool used by the dogs to help clean the screen.
> Choose from 6 different dogs:
        Fargo – Landseer Newfoundland
        Claribelle – Springer Spaniel
        Woody – Greyhound
        Hyde – Newfoundland
        Ursa – Great Pyrenees
       Tina – Golden Retriever
> Looks cool!

Note: No animal was harmed in any way during the making of this application. The animals are not actually touching your screen and the drool used in production of the videos will not cause water damage to your device.

Here’s a clip of a couple of cleaners working together (which are Fargo and Ursa) -

 

As noted, a portion of all proceeds go to help various animal rescue groups, so please be sure to let all your friends know to keep a look out in the Apple App Store around September 28th.

I just recieved this email:

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Hi,

Wanted to let you know that the Bobcat is back on Citation Dr. again. It is feeding under my birdfeeder again, and has been seen by the corner of Whirlaway and Harwich.

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And as most of you are thinking, so what you guys live in the country. There are probably Bobcats all over the place. And you would be right, except this email came from my mother who lives here -

Dang near in the middle of Dallas Texas. Just goes to show you that nature will adapt to whatever enviroment they have to to live.

As of today Piper has been with us 21 days and it is now official. Little Piper is no longer a foster!! Where is her new forever home, you ask? Why where else but right here.

After much debate, it was finally decided that there was just no way we could let this little sweet Newf go to another home.

As you can see, she’s already quite comfy in her new surroundings.

Since we haven’t taken her out much as we needed to first get familiar with her and her with us. Then we had to deal with her getting spayed, here are a couple of pictures to give you an idea just how tiny our little 2 yr 9mo old Newf really is.

Here is Fargo at 1yr old and 115lbs in a standard childs wading pool

Here is Piper in the same kiddie pool

As you can see, pretty tiny for a Newf…and yes, she really is a Newf! We have the AKC papers!

 This is Piper, our new foster girl.

Here it is the 7th of July. The 4th was 3 days ago. We decide to go ahead and take Sadie out front to work on some retrieving exercises for her water title and what happens? We hadn’t gotten off the front porch when the people 2 houses down from us start blowing up fireworks.

Of course this freaks Sadie out, as well as our Pyr, Ursa, who is in the house and now she doesn’t want to do anything but get back into the house. Wonderful, an evenings work out the door before we even get started.

Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good evening of blowing up fireworks as much as the next guy but on the 4th of July, not on the 7th. I get rather tired of that and now we have to deal with getting Ursa to come out from in the closet as well as hoping that tomorrow Sadie will have forgotten and want to go out front.

We thought we had avoided that whole scene this year as we decided to go out of town for the 4th of July weekend and had put the pups into a kennel we use all the time that is in city limits where fireworks can not be shot off. I guess we forgot about the other days around the 4th being a problem as well.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.