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Now that the holidays have passed, it's time to get back on track as it were. It's been a productive week so please take a few tics to read this edition in its entirety.
In our next newsletter, I'm formally announcing our LAUNCH date! We've all been working so hard towards that end and we're almost there.
Safe travels
Hudson, Murphy, and the Big Dog |
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Our 'Extreme Makeover'
The website is currently undergoing a massive makeover... I'm incorporating several of your 'home improvement' ideas like a FAQs page. My goal is to have the final version of our site completed by this week's end, so please email me if you have any other suggestions.
I'm also tightening up our message. From the start I've been insistent on keeping the hike 'organic', eschewing TV crews and turning this into a reality show, but I've been faced with quite a dilemma regarding sponsorships.
While we need the deep pockets of corporate America to finance the cancer study, I cannot advocate products I don't believe protect and promote the health and well being of our pets, society, and the environment.
In that spirit... I'm so very honored to announce our dog food sponsor.....
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The Honest Kitchen
In my estimation, they have the best dog food on the market. Not only are they 100% human-food-grade, their meals are produced in an FDA approved, human-food-producing facility in Southern California, that makes the very same foods you eat. Isn't that awesome? And desperately needed, too.
Find out more about this wonderful company and their dedicated people at our blog... |
VerySuperCool Sue
This past Wednesday, Sue of Verysupercool fame came down from Austin to photograph the boys. Her company makes awesome dog greeting cards that are printed on 100% post consumer waste paper.
Isn't her photography stunning - part Rembrant, part Cezanne? To find out more about VSC Sue, check out our blog! |
Remembering Malcolm
Regaling you with stories of that spirit which was his and can be ours...
January 11th was the second anniversay since Malcolm was given rest and I made a memorial to honor the ocassion
The story I'd like to share with you about him this week is when Angell Hospital diagnosed that his cancer had metastisized to his lungs, they gave him two weeks to a month to live.
Malcolm stopped eating his dog food shortly after that but I resolved to help him fight it. I cooked his meals and we traveled together. He had tough days, surely, but we learned how to get through them. And on those days, I'd say to him over and over, "We don't give up, we don't give in, until the end, my friend".
Those words must have resonated. He fought for me and I fought for him and I was blessed with almost six more months with Malcolm in my life.
And now those words are the bedrock of this hike. I won't give up and I won't give in until I reach our end. |
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