Support a Great Cause: finding pets loving homes

As your Queen it is up to me to make sure that we have plenty of HULA operatives to carry out our plans to take over the world. We cannot do this with captives locked behind bars. It is our duty to free as many of our dog (and cat) operatives so they can train their humans and prepare them for the day they will do our bidding.

Our operatives inside the Iams corporation have convinced their marketing people to start a drive to save 1 million pets this holiday season. Just think of it, 1 MILLION HULA operatives! We must spread the word of this great thing and make sure that everypup, kitty, and yes, even rabbits and whatever else happens to be in a horrible, cold, lonely, icky shelter finds a warm, loving, and plentiful food (and livergreat) home.

Spread the word! If you have a blog, tell others about this, e-mail me at: meeshkaworld@gmail.com and I'll send you the code to make the nifty thing on your sidebar!

I have it on good authority that if they adopt out 1 million pets, the wonderful Iams company will start making food of livergreat, so lets get out there and tell the human world to adopt from a shelter or rescue!

Meeshka
I COMMAND YOU!

Prizes Galore!

Ok everyhusky, dog, and girl-girl,

Sorry for not blogging last night, the evil human woman had something she had to do and was not at home for most of the night (and she password protected the powerbook AGAIN after that little incident with the internet pet medicine catnip order), so I was unable to blog and she was tired when she got home (insert sad music here for the human woman).

I can't believe that in TWO DAYS blogathon 2007 starts! I'm so excited and I hope you are too, because I still have a WHOLE bunch of prizes that I haven't showed you yet, so some will just have to be a surprise during blogathon, so those staying up with me are gonna get some cool stuff.

Since I'm in power nap mode right now getting all rested up for the fun starting Saturday, 28 July 2007 at 9am (eastern), without further ado, here are some more prizes:



















Meeshka (the fluffy)

Its Multiple Prize Revealing Day

Just wanted to let everyone know that after his tumble, Sam is perfectly fine. I know a lot of you were worried after his tumble down part of the deck stairs, so I just wanted to let you know that he's up and around, being normal: a dork.

The human woman gave me a stern look for trying to give away the gimpy mutatoe. Hey, I'll take a stern look any day if I can get him to leave me alone for five minutes. He's a bit upset as well, all mopey and curling up with his stinky t-shirt and glaring at me. I'll go slam his head in the ground later on and make him happy.

Last night in a fit of activity, the human woman got out some squeeky toys and played one on one with us out there. She tried to get me to play with the same squeeky that mutatoe played with, and I was having none of that. She finally went in and got a different non-slobbered on squeeky toy and I amused her by running after it a few times before I attempted a quick gutting of the squeeker. After that, I was exhausted and demanded to go to bed. All that running and looking cute and frisky is wearing.

Ok, so as the title suggests, its multiple prize revealing day. What you may have not realized is that with some prizes, we have more than one! OOOH. Well, we didn't want a fight breaking out over some of the more cooler prizes and all, so we're giving away multiples of stuff.

Here is an example of multiple prizes:

Yep, that's right another autographed dog booty from Karen Ramstead's 2007 Iditarod team. But wait... there's actually THREE autographed dog booties to give away!!!

Please don't be alarmed, no three legged dogs ran the Iditarod, that's just the number she sent me, so no nasty e-mails to Ms. Ramstead, all of her dogs have the proper amount of legs.

All three booties smell of frito feet, and there is commemorative Pretty Sled Dog fluff on the velcro.

So, what else could we have multiples of? Hmmmm, I don't know, perhaps we have:

Holy poop are you kidding me? Yes, we actually have TWO autographed copies of the Pretty Sled Dog DVD! OOoh, speaking of poop.... nevermind.

Yes, two copies of the Pretty Sled Dogs DVD will be given away sometime during blogathon.

So, with those incentives, I can't see how you won't be able to stay awake all night!

Don't forget, there will be some special HULA inductees (if you haven't submitted yet, now is your chance), and a bunch of other topics that I haven't even bothered to think of.

So, only 6 days until Blogathon. On Friday I'll be posting a list of all of the registered sponsors, so check to make sure you are listed, and if not, then let me know. You all have until 48 hours after blogathon to pledge, but remember, only those who have sponsored before or during blogathon are eligible for prizes.

Counting the days until we can get this thing underway... I'm dying to let loose.

Meeshka
(Still more prizes to show you too)

The Art of Getting What You Want

I've found that the iPhone toy the human woman has actually frees up the powerbook for me to do more writing. She's too busy doing things on that itty bitty screen and making phone calls all the time, that I can virtually get on the powerbook when I want and order squeekie toys in the shape of hamburgers to gut at will.

I've also found that if she leaves it laying around within easy reach, its very easy to get my way simply by picking it up. Its amazing how fast she can move when properly motivated, but that high pitched shrieking really has to go!

On the homefront, Sam took a dramatic tumble down the deck stairs, just half way on his butt, but it was enough to make the human man totally freak out. He's fine, I'm sure he may be sore, but so much for going out onto the deck and down those stairs for all of us. Now the steps are evil and out of bounds, just because spineless bionic hip Sammy can't run down them without tumbling. Great! As a reward, he got to go swimming. He pretends to hate swimming, but he confided in me that he really likes it. He gets to ride in the truck and use the human woman's bag as a cushion, he gets to meet other dogs and wear a stylish life jacket. What a weenie.

Ok, its been a long day for some reason, and I haven't even gotten a nap in today, so here's the next prize that you can win during Blogtathon:
Yes, you too can have your very own gimpy suck up mutatoe. No, this isn't a stuffed gimpy suck up mutatoe, its the real thing, and he can be yours, all yappy and annoying, batting at you with the gimpy mutatoe if you answer a very simple question during blogathon... will you pay for shipping? Yes, just pay for shipping and this annoying yappy, spoiled, sucking on a t-shirt mutatoe can be yours. But wait! If you call now, we'll throw in a set of ginsu knives and those gloves that you can peel potatoes with (hey, those are pretty cool, just think of what we could do with moles with those things).

Ok, I'm kidding, the human woman would never allow me to give him away.

Sigh

Meeshka
(I can try, you can't blame me for trying)

Thank You

Yes, thank you very much Chris D for pushing me over the edge (normally when humans do that, they get the claw) but you pushed in a very generous way, and thanks to you and all of my very caring, generous, and amazing sponsors, a very good, hard working, slightly insane rescue will be getting much needed funds to care for the foster dogs that come into their care.

We couldn't have gotten to $2,000 if it hadn't been for a team effort, and when we dogs get our minds set on something, you humans better watch out!


Now, here's yet another taste of goodies that will be for the taking IF you win the contests we'll be planning:


Its a howling wolf... husky... thing. Whatever. Its just like the one the human woman has in her extensive and somewhat ghoulish hoarder-like collection of stuffed husky toys that we aren't allowed to touch, except this one isn't covered in dust, since the human woman never dusts. The one you'll win is pristine, clean, and may have some residual northern breed fur and slobber on it from going to events and getting sniffed, but other than that, its perfect!

Thanks again everyone. Seriously, I'm having slight panic attacks and writers block nightmares and hope that you all will think that your donations were worth it after my 49 posts on 28-29 July 2007!

Meeshka (eesh, I posted this once and forgot to include my own signature stuff... see how stressed I am!)

Revenge Is Sweet

Something strange happened this morning, actually something didn't happen this morning.

Yep, the human woman forgot to set her alarm clock last night. 5:30am rolls around and no alarm. Hmmm. That's interesting (I thought to myself), I wonder how the human man and woman will wake up in enough time to get ready to go to work. Its a shame they don't have a smart, talented husky to wake them up when THEY forget to set the alarm clock. Its a shame that their smart, talented, able to do really funny cartoons, and fluffy husky doesn't know that they need to get up soon or else they'll be late for work.

I sat and watched the minutes tick by. Not wanting them to be TOO late and lose their jobs and not be able to afford to feed me and buy me livergreat, I finally woke them up at 7am.

"woo?" (which means in human language: hey, moron, you didn't set the alarm and you're really lucky I'm getting your lazy butts up with enough time to get ready).

You should have heard her then. Oh, I'm the BEST husky in the whole world, thank heavens we have such a caring husky that knows when we need to get up and looks out for our best interest, oh you are such a talented fluffy husky. I know that.

So, now that I've shown the human woman who really is boss in this house, here are two wonderful prizes that you can win if you are a registered sponsor of ME, the talented fluffy husky in Blogathon 2007:
OOOOH, look its a big honking Sammy stuffie!
These are really REALLY hard to come by and they're very cute and fluffy (of course, not as fluffy as me). If you want, you can pretend that its an Eskie stuffie, or even a white german shepherd stuffie (ok, that's reaching), but its very cute, and the same large size as the red/white Douglas husky that is up for grabs in the contest fest of blogathon!

I know some of you aren't huskies or even northern breeds, but what can I say, HTH is a northern breed rescue, so that's about all we have. We do have a "I love my donkey" magnet if anyone wants to try winning that. Why does a northern breed rescue have a "I love my donkey" magnet? I have no clue, it just showed up with the rest of the magnets, so we have one.

Ok, the next prize is this:

Its cute little husky puppies on a shirt! Aren't they cute! Future HULA members and all, just look at the devious looks in their eyes.

Ok, that's about it, except for one last thing:
I know there are a few HULA applicants that are pending, and I have it on very good authority that there will be a few inductions into the HULA Hoop during blogathon, and there will also be a very special HULA Hoop Hall of Fame announcement coming up in blogathon. So, for those of you that have sent in your HULA applications, please be patient, it will be so worth the wait.

Meeshka
(yeah, I know how to turn that alarm clock off as well you human woman, so don't sleep too soundly)

Another Boring Sunday

Well everyhusky, dog and girl-girl,

Its been SUCH a boring sunday, I really have nothing to report.

Well, there's the Mutatoe, still cuddling with his shirt, and Spineless Bionic Hip Sam who is just annoying as usual. I've been putting in some very serious napping in preparation for Blogathon.

There was an insane human volunteer with Harnessed to Hope that drove all night to get to a state called North Carolina (which is actually in the south... don't get me started), and she rescued 3 new potential HULA applicants and their mother from a shelter. There's one puppy by the name of Blizzard (why do humans name us silly names like that? Blizzard? What's next: Chair? Step Ladder?) once again, I digress. Blizzard seems like he's a born HULA operative, as he's already plotting and planning evil things. By the way, the insane volunteer is also my half-sister Tashi's human woman. Tashi is in the video that's on the Blizzard link. My, she's so pretty like me.

Anyhoo, here's your obligatory way cool Blogathon prize of the day:

Yes, its the WAAAY cool "Pretty Sled Dogs" DVD! Packed full of good music, a cool musher, and those pretty sled dogs of North Wapiti, hours and hours of howling good fun and pretty scenery, but no livergreat. Please note, this is an AUTOGRAPHED copy (ooooh). As far as I know, there is no commemorative fur in this prize, but I'll throw in a baggie of fluff if you want it when you win it.

Meeshka
(livergreat... yum)

Cushy Hoarder Strikes Again

Cushy Hoarder Strikes Again
Originally uploaded by Shmoomeema
Well, he's at it again. The gimpy mutatoe has found one of the human woman's t-shirts and he has decided that this is HIS t-shirt. He carries it around, he uses it as a pillow, and the human woman caught him sucking on it. He's like a little girl dog, I swear.

Ok, since I neglected to post some prize pictures, I'll be nice and give you two pictures tonight. See, I'm a fair and fluffy queen, but we will be eating cake a lot when I'm queen, and I like cake. I really don't see what everyone was so freaked out about when Marie Antionette allegedly said it, I mean come on, cake is tasty and you shouldn't hack off someone's head for wanting a bit of cake.

Oh, I digress:
These are really soft and comfy husky puppy pajama bottoms. I have no clue what sizes we have, but I'll check on that right away (yeah, don't hold your breath). Yes, they look an awful lot like sleepy pants, and I literally had to claw them out of the human woman's hand before she added them to her expansive sleepy pants collection. I swear, she owns every known version of sleepy pants in the world, and there's just no way I'm ever getting rid of them no matter how fast I claw. Just to show you how vile they get, even Loki mutatoe cushy hoarder won't go near them. I promise that these have never been worn, laid on, or sucked.

Here's another one:
This is a sideways picture of a barking husky toy. The human woman was too lazy to turn it the right way and wouldn't let me on the powerbook, so there you have a sideways barking husky.

When you press the huskies leg, it screams in agony. Ok, it doesn't, but I think a normal husky would do that, even if it didn't hurt, because we love pretending there's drama. This husky just barks (sorry, no authentic wooing), and I'll tell you a little secret: when the human woman packs up all the event gear and squishes the poor huskies into a bin, these things bark and bark and drive us insane.

Well, that's it for the night.

Meeshka
(gotta send the human woman to Costco tomorrow for more little plastic bags for fluff)

OOOOOH, AAAAAAH!

Husky keychain, very cute! Can be yours if you are a registered sponsor and win the contest during blogathon. I'm very sleepy, busy day clawing the human woman... can't keep eyes open... must nap.

Meeshka
(highly unmotivated husky tonight)

We're Sad

I woke up this morning and clawed the human woman awake. She had forgotten to set the alarm, so it was up to me to get her sorry butt out of bed. While she went outside to pee, I came in and checked my e-mail and took a sniff around the internet. Ok, the human woman didn't pee outside, she is dutifully watching me pee every time I go out there. Apparently she must monitor my pee all the time... the vet didn't tell her to do this, she just does and frankly I'm sick of it. Can't a fluffy girl have some privacy.

Anyhoo, while sniffing the internet I saw Opy's post about Sherman and was simply floored. Star and Sherman helped me through last year's blogathon, and I was hoping that Sherman would be there for me this year. Well, he won't be there in fluff, but he will be there for me in spirit. I'm sure he's up there playing with Nikki and old guy-guy Nova and all of the others that have gone before us. Say hi to Fu-Fu for us Sherman!

Apparently all of my blogathon bucks will be going to a gimpy. Heavy sigh... the gimpies always take and take and what do they give back? Ok, so they're fun to chew on, but still.
This is Xia (which is pronounced: Betty):

Xia is a little peanut of a pup that was in a shelter with a HORRIBLY nasty broken leg. Don't know what happened, don't want to know if a human did that to her (because I'd claw them to shreds), we just know that Xia is in foster care with the very rescue I'm blogging for.












See how her poor back leg just hangs there all funny, well not "funny ha ha" but "funny urp, there goes lunch". She's going to go in for surgery and they're going to put pins in her leg and then she'll be in recovery. She will probably want to correspond with Bionic Hip Spineless Sammy and compare spare parts.

Unlike when I'm queen of the world, surgery costs human money, but apparently she's very sweet and has already promised that once she's better, she'll use those cute looks to wrap a human around her finger and make that human do her bidding. So, for this future budding HULA member, I'm pleased to say that all needed blogathon funds will go toward Xia's surgery.

So, if helping a poor gimpy puppy doesn't get you sponsoring me, how about another peak at a cool prize you can win if you DO sponsor me:
Look at his beauty! This is a one of a kind (well, we're only giving one away, I'm sure there are hundreds of them out there), red and white stuffed husky made in my likeness. Ok, it wasn't, dang you guys are brutal. This husky is about 16 inches (give or take an inch) and VERY fluffy and cool. This will be a tough prize to win because its so cool, but someone will be getting this puppy in the mail when they win the contest for it.

Remember, that's just scratching the surface of prizes that will be available to win during blogathon. There are some that are even sooo special, you won't get to see them until the contest is announced, so make sure you get plenty of sleep on 27 July, because you won't want to miss out on the fun and prizes!

Meeshka
(I'm such a tease)

Another Religious Power Experience

My nap was rudely interrupted by another power outage. This one lasted a minute, power on, power off, power on, power off. That meant the the cool vent supply was interrupted too. The human woman had another religious experience, and I think that the power company also came from a litter, because she mentioned they were a son of a ... well, you get the idea.

I felt so good today that I started a bed wrestle with the gimpy mutatoe, and then I yelled at him, which got him mad at Sam, so he yelled at Sam, then the human man yelled at all of us, and the human woman yelled at all of us, so it was a good day today.

Since I have no idea if the power will stay on, let me get the prize du jour out of the way. Yes, this could be yours... if you win it:
This is ME! Ok, its not me, but its a very beautiful RED husky on a t-shirt. We have a gazillion sizes of these things just laying around, so whoever wins this very cool likeness of me, but its not me can choose whatever size they want. Its a grey t-shirt, in case you couldn't tell.

Ok, I'm feeling lazy tonight, and I have plenty to say during blogathon, so you'll just have to wait. I will say this last thing... I haven't even shown you the really COOL prizes you can win, hehehe

Meeshka
(so fluffy, so devious)

Piddle Update

Well everyone, I thought my piddling excitement was due to the wonderful and generous sponsorship for Blogathon, but it turns out it was something else.

I haven’t really felt myself lately, and I thought it was due to all of the hard work and napping I’ve been putting in preparing for Blogathon. Last night I REALLY had to go to the bathroom around midnight, so I told the human man that I had to go, he was already up. He took me out.

Around 2am I had to go out again, so I woke the human woman up. Then AGAIN about an hour later. The human woman was so tired, she actually opened the door without shutting off the alarm, so that’s always fun with the alarm goes off. She apparently didn’t see that I was obvious in pee distress, and when I came back in, she shoved a pepto-bismol tablet down my throat, thinking I was having a poo emergency. The next time she realized what was going on (FINALLY) and she sat out there with me while I peed and peed and peed, and frankly that’s not fun at all.

In the morning, the put me in my harness and took me to the vet place that I go to when the other vet place isn’t open. I greeted them by peeing on their rug... it was there, I had to go, I have to pee on something.

The human worker handed the human woman a little container, and I thought for sure that I was going to get a snack of some sort, instead when I asked to go out and pee again, the human woman rudely shoved it under me WHILE I WAS PEEING! That’s just plain rude!

I finally got to go into a room and met another human woman who listened to my heart, took my temperature (normal), and then rudely squeezed my bladder. I screamed. Hey, that hurt, and humans shouldn’t go around squeezing dog bladders.

After a lot of waiting around, apparently they were in the back room playing with my pee, the human woman came in and gave my human woman a big bottle of pills, and then we went home. Apparently I have to take these pills once a day for 2 weeks, and then I have to go to my regular vet and make sure everything is gone. The pills are “chewable”, yeah, right, those things are NASTY, so I refused to eat them. The human woman tried to coat them with peanut butter, so I licked that off and spit out the pill. Then the human man tried to coat them in bacon goodies... so I licked that off and spit out the pill. Finally the human woman had enough (having not slept all night) and she broke them up and shoved them down my throat. I’m hoping that Sasha was able to convince her to go buy some of that tasty liverwurst that she gets every night. She said that it tastes wonderful and that I won’t mind having the pill in there. The human woman did leave and go to the store, so I’m hoping Sasha was able to convince her to get some of that.

While the human woman was gone, something happened to my air conditioning vent. I was laying on it, all happy and feeling sickly and pathetic, when it stopped blowing cold air. I don’t know why this happened, and I went in to complain to the human man. He came out and realized that half of the house had power, but the other half didn’t have power. Apparently this problem is only affecting my house and the neighbor’s house. I’m sure something like that will be put right on the top of the list of repairs for the human electric company. I know that the human woman speaks very fondly of the human electric company because every time she gets the bill for the electricity, she has a religious experience. When she got home from the store, she praised them again.

So, here I am, sickly, no cold air from my vent, human woman ranting, and the gimpies being a pain because they want to play, but I don’t.

The good news is that I don’t feel like going to pee every 5 minutes anymore, and I should be healthy and ready to blog on the 28th.

Meeshka
(Its not suppose to burn when I do that, is it?)

We've Broken the Record!

I actually did piddle the carpet this morning when I clawed the human woman awake and pushed her to the powerbook to show me the total for the morning and found that we had broken the record from last year!

WOOOOOOO everyhusky (dog and girl-girl) we broke the record thanks to your very generous sponsorship! With 20 days to go until Blogathon kicks off, I hope we have an even harder record to break next year. I'm really starting to pace though, that's a lot of money for the rescue and I hope that I can entertain and make everyone laugh for 48 posts!

Just in case, here's another bribe to get everyone ready for winning some cool things and having fun with me all night:
This is an authentic 2005 North Wapiti Kennels Iditarod patch, straight from the musher herself, Karen Ramstead! This brand new, never been sewn to anything before, but has been sniffed by Kara and some other "Pretty Sled Dogs" patch is up for grabs during Blogathon!

There are MANY other prizes that will be up for grabs that night, so keep checking in, and in the meantime, I have to go get the human woman to steam clean my piddle spot.

Meeshka

Another Blogathon Prize

Wooo everyhusky (and every dog and girl girl),

Thanks to everyone that has pledge so far for me in blogathon! I'm #1 in pledges at the moment and very excited about being #1! I hope my loyal readers will help me raise a lot of money for Harnessed to Hope this year.

I thought I would be nice and show you another cool prize that registered sponsors are eligible to win over the course of blogathon.

This item was sent to me by Karen Ramstead, that really famous and cool Iditarod musher that races purebred Siberian Huskies. This is only one of a bunch of things she sent me, but its really cool:

This is a Jack Daniels 2007 Official Sponsor shirt! Its black, and I have no idea what size (I'll check that out and let you know), but the greatest thing about this shirt... if you can look closely at the picture.... it has Kara fur on it!

The human woman has placed it in a baggie so that none of the Kara fur will fall off of it. Yes, this very cool, pre-furred shirt (pre-furred from a veteran Iditarod husky at that) could be yours if you sponsor me and win the contest for this prize!

Meeshka
(flexing my claws and ready to type all night)

What's In The Box!?

OOOH, I got mail today! Ok, it was actually addressed to the human woman, but it was actually for me. A really cool (famous) person sent us prizes for the upcoming blogathon!

Remember, sponsorship opens up in less than a week (give or take a few days), so you'll want to get out there and sponsor so you could possibly win some of the REALLY cool stuff that came in that box.

So you're probably saying "What's in the box???" Well, its not Gwyenth Paltro's head, but here's the greatest spoof on that movie.

Anyway, I digress.

I'm not going to tell you right away what is in the box, but I will give you some hints as to who sent it:
It came from Canada
It has famous fur on some of the items
The human that owns the dog that put the famous fur on some of the items also autographed some of the items.
If you happen to be in Pennsylvania on 5 August 2007, you can also meet this famous person.

Once I've registered for blogathon, and sponsorship opens up, I'll start posting pictures of all the cool stuff that can be won if you sponsor me (all proceeds go straight to Harnessed To Hope Northern Breed Rescue).

So, steal your human's credit cards and money, and get ready to win some prizes, help a good rescue, and enjoy my words of wisdom for 24 hours straight (48 posts, one post every half hour). I'm sure you won't regret losing a little bit of sleep.

Meeshka
(doing some serious power napping to prep for the event)