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Welcoming In The New Year

January 7, 2015

Darla on chair on New Years Day

That was Darla on New Year’s Day, having reclaimed my her battered but beloved recliner as her own. Ever since blowing out her knee and subsequent surgery last fall, I had the chair to myself since she couldn’t get up there. But over the holidays, she realized she could jump up there again, and she hasn’t relinquished it. Not that there aren’t plenty of other chairs and beds to enjoy in the living room, but she’d rather have my recliner. Well of course! The deal we reached is that she has it during the day, but in the evening, when it’s time to sit down and read, it’s my chair again. A fella can only be pushed around so far, you know??

Here she was the very next day, the 2nd of January:

Darla on chair on Jan 2

I think she’s waiting for me to get her one of those massage chair recliners. No.

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About The Shelter Challenge

I’ve been getting emails from people saying the Shelter Challenge isn’t working, they can’t vote for us, they’ve contacted the Shelter Challenge and never get a response, and they hope we can do something about it. We can’t. They don’t respond any better to us. We don’t have any special access. This latest round of the Shelter Challenge — which, oddly, started?on December 22nd as a “mini-holiday” version, something they’ve never done before — has never worked right from the beginning. This is why we haven’t promoted it on the blog. And the problems are not peculiar to us, and yes, we are registered. The system is just riddled with bugs. I just don’t know why they would fail to fix it. We really appreciate everyone’s efforts to vote for us, but all I can suggest is that you just sit this one out and avoid the aggravation. But thank you for trying!

Comments

  1. Steve Smith says

    January 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    Testing to see if comments work.

  2. Colleen & Andre says

    January 7, 2015 at 2:57 pm

    Sweet Darla!!!

  3. Jenny says

    January 7, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    She is one cute dog! Happy New Year!

  4. Tonya Allen says

    January 7, 2015 at 4:18 pm

    Darla’s just keeping it warm for you. She looks very, very comfy.

  5. Phyllis Snow says

    January 7, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    Steve–
    Thanks for telling me/all of us that others are having troubles with this skewed “mini” challenge. The animal rescue site should throw this challenge out. Period.

    Nothing about the Mini has worked for me. Grrr.

    Phyllis

  6. Moon says

    January 7, 2015 at 4:53 pm

    Re: the Shelter Challenge. doing this usually works for me, and I am not registered at Shelter Challenge. I pull up the first page where the shelter name and location are entered. I type “ro” for name and “la” for location. I type “nh” for state, then click on “NH” in the drop-down of state abbreviations. Then I click. If nothing happens, I click, then hit the enter key. I complete the Captcha, then click. Again, I sometimes need to click then hit the enter key. So far so good.

  7. Peggy S., Scooter and T.C. says

    January 7, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    I’ve been able to vote for you in the challenge…..however in the past I have been blocked. Seems like it’s a roll of the dice! Hope RDF gets enough votes to win something.

  8. Boundforglory says

    January 7, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    I feel for you Steve, getting pushed out of your own chair by adorable Darla!! (snicker…snicker)
    Darla is probably plotting how she can swoon you so that she can get “her” chair both day and night!

  9. Kay McOmber says

    January 7, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    Yes, comments work. And the Shelter Challenge worked fine for me. Thank you for putting up the link as I didn’t know a new one had started.

  10. Debbie Burke says

    January 7, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    Hi Steve,

    Didn’t know about the Shelter Challenge until just now. I clicked through and was able to vote with no problem. I’ve had problems in the past, but this time it worked fine. Maybe I’m just lucky, or maybe they’ve fixed the glitches.
    Happy New Year to you, Alayne, and all the critters.

  11. Diane Borden, Chehalis, WA says

    January 8, 2015 at 10:23 am

    Regarding the Shelter Challenge on The Animal Rescue Site, it ONLY works if you are using the Internet Explorer as your internet browser. I have Mozilla/Firefox as default on my computer, but I manually go to Internet Explorer, and it works. I have successfully voted every day since I discovered this. First time this has happened with them. I wrote them somewhere between Christmas and New years, using the contact info at the bottom header of their page, hoping someone at the end of the holidays would return and fix it, but here it is the 8th and nothing has happened.

    But Internet Explorer continues to work. I would suggest your readers flood the contact person/address with requests, perhaps they will then look into it.

    Oh, and not to give Darla short shrift, glad you can jump again sweetie, but please give up your beloved recliner to poor tired Steve at the end of the day!.

  12. Linda says

    January 8, 2015 at 11:38 am

    Maybe matching chairs? I am one who hasn’t been able to vote. Hopefully things will get corrected soon, or a new challenge can be set up that works. You get my vote, regardless!

  13. Mary Ulibarri says

    January 8, 2015 at 11:47 am

    Shelter Challenge — I found that if you click on “Shelter Search” at the top of the page (you know, where it says “Home,” “Contact,” etc, it will take you to the voting page (again) and this time it works. Mary

  14. Barb Ribinski says

    January 8, 2015 at 1:22 pm

    test 2

  15. Barb Ribinski says

    January 8, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    Spoiled much, Darla??? In that first photo Darla seems to be remembering how good it felt to be able to sleep in the chair. Can dogs become spoiled without human intervention? Hmmm. As to the shelter challenge, I found that if you create a profile and log in you are able to vote. I used a profile when I logged in from my personal PC but not from my work PC. I was able to vote using the profile but could not search and vote without it. It’s still buggy because it doesn’t seem to be doing anything after you click the vote button. But if you try again, it does tell you that you’ve already voted today. And RDF is moving up in the standing so the votes must be going through. Hope this helps.

  16. Elaine Hall says

    January 8, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    I’ve been voting daily in the latest Shelter Challenge without any problems. Guess I’ve been lucky.

  17. Miranda Brooks says

    January 16, 2015 at 11:41 am

    No? Well maybe she’d like a rocker or one of those chairs that glide back and forth. I know, how about a chair that mom’s use to nurse babies?! Maybe you could find a used one and it would be Darla’s chair day AND night. I think it’s commendable that the two of you know how to share nicely. 🙂 Good human!

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