This morning, as I sipped my coffee while seated next to my rescue pup, who was sprawled out on my sofa occupying way more space than anyone should require, I opened my email and started reading.

One email was from a woman who works for a company where they help people find a match with a puppy. She said she “came across my site today and thought [I ] would be a perfect fit for a project [she] is currently working on.” Since I love animals and I do talk about it frequently,  I was intrigued and kept reading.

The project is promoting “Love Your Pet Day” on February 20th and they wanted to provide me a graphic from their company for my site in support of this “holiday.” I looked up their company to see exactly what they do.

I’m not sure if she came across my site at Tumblr, which is called “Rescue Pets Are Awesome” and features heart-warming stories from people around the world who have done everything from finding stray puppies abandoned along snowy roads that they rescued, finding kittens that were thrown away in a dumpster that they cared for and found great homes for, or simply adopting a pet from a shelter. Or if they found me on this site, where I talk about all of the work I do with Pasadena Humane Society to help stray animals find their forever homes, and have shared my own stories of finding animals that I’ve fostered and found homes for. All I know is that company is a service that matches people with puppies; puppies from breeders.

WHAT.

So, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of this really amazing holiday coming up on February 20th called “Love Your Pet Day.” If you have a pet, you probably already love the hell out of it every single day and don’t need someone to remind you to do so. And if you don’t have a pet but have been thinking of getting one, please support this holiday by going to a shelter or to an adoption event near you and give the gift of being a family to one of the thousands of animals who are eagerly waiting to go to their forever home. You will both be so happy you did.

At the beginning of December 2016, I wrote this post about making a thing. It was exciting and scary but I did it! I had a limited supply printed and put them in an Etsy shop with the plan of selling them until the middle of December. That way, I would have time to ship them out to people and they could receive them before Christmas. I was really surprised to see my entire stock sold out in 5 days!

I didn’t want to add to the supply back then because it was more than I felt I could take on just before the holidays. Since then, I’ve received several emails and requests on social media to make them available again, and since there’s no deadline of a holiday looming over me (unless you’re trying to order these as some sort of Valentine’s Day gift OH GOD PANIC) I had more printed up and added the stock back to my Etsy store!

I will eventually work up to having more things available but since I’m just doing this for fun, I don’t feel the need to quickly have a lot of options in my store. It’ll get there someday! In the meantime, here’s a link to my tiny store if you’re interested.

OH BOY!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/497703877/10-blank-notecards-watercolor-tree?ref=market