Let it Snow, in El Paso

This is my parent's house in El Paso, Texas this morning. It's normally a huge dust bowl, and I guess today it's a huge frozen dust bowl. The downsides to El Paso are numerous, although it was just ranked second as the "Safest Big City in America". I guess when Mexico is that close why break American laws?

We're heading down to the SF International Car Show at Moscone Center. Since we'll be downtown, I want to stop by and see the windows. 51 cats have found homes so far in the first week of Macy's SF/SPCA Holiday Windows. That's a 25% increase from last year so far.

Pet Food Express sponsored a wonderful segment about the windows that ran on CBS 5 last night. They are truly a first class animal supply company and have quality gift items for your beloved furry friend. My favorite dog toys to give are the "Egg Babies". They are stuffed animals that hold "eggs" inside their stomachs. Dogs seem to get satisfaction in removing the eggs, and my lab doesn't rip them apart like she does other stuffed toys . You can even buy just a package of eggs; which contain 3 egg squeaky toys and retails for only four bucks!

SF/SPCA Holiday Windows Opens at Macy's!

The SF/SPCA 21st Annual Holiday Windows opened today at Macy's Union Square. It's the 11th year that I've been involved and it is my favorite animal event. The amount of work and man hours that's involved is mind boggling. We have over one-thousand volunteer shifts, that will assist us through this six-week event which runs through New Year's Day. Macy's visual team came from all over to assist with the design and production of the windows. We will adopt out approximately 220 cats and 20 dogs at the windows during this period.

One of the pictures is a Macy's team member placing the final touches on the Beach Blanket Babylon Window. The other one is a SF/SPCA orange tabby making good use of the luxurious accommodations. There are several other windows with the themes of: The Painted Ladies, The Nutcracker, Macy's Parade, and The Union Square Christmas Tree.

Steve Young was very generous and performed the unveiling for us, for which I will forever be grateful. We've never had a celebrity of his stature lend his name to this event, and I feel the unveiling got the attention it deserved.

Please shop and support the Windows Sponsor's like, PetFood Express, Wag Hotels, Hush Puppies, Urban Decay (cruelty free), KONG Pet Toys, Nature’s Variety, VPI Petcare Services, Greenies, The San Francisco Examiner, 7x7, and California Home and Design. And please take a moment and tell Macy's Inc, how much you love these windows that find homes for homeless animals. We want to be invited back again and again!

Holiday Windows Time

This coming Friday begins this year's SF/SPCA Holiday Windows. Macy's Union Square is kindly hosting us again this year on the corner of Stockton and O'Farrell. I can't discolose the exciting theme, so you'll have to check them out when they open on Friday at 11:30 am. We're very honored that Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Steve Young will be doing the unveiling. If you can't make it, the windows will be open during Macy's store hours through New Year's Day. The SF/SPCA will also have a link to two webcams that are being installed in the windows. Here's a video from last year's Windows.

Also, I'm working on a newsletter for my father's Porsche Club Carrera-Region Newsletter. It's amazing how much newsletters can be energy vampires; everything has to be just so (kind'a like blogs?) But at some point it just has to go to bed, or at least I have to. I've modeled it off of The SF/SPCA's Award-Winning magazine, Our Animals. I'll post the newsletter once I've completed it, hopefully on Tuesday.