The extreme pet Bloggers Blog Hop.

Welcome To The Extreme Pet Bloggers Blog Hop.

I am proud to be taking part in the Extreme pet Bloggers Blog Hop in helping to raise awareness and promotion of animal rescues and shelters around the world. There will be plenty of giveaways  to be won. For more details please visit Two Little Cavaliers who is hosting this event.

For any new visitors visiting my Blog for the first time i will introduce myself and the pets in our care.

I am Ian and live in Southport, United Kingdom with my partner Anne. I'm a dog lover and Anne loves her cats so we've always got to have at least one of each in the house.

First up is Sheba.

Sheba thinks she's a diva.

Sheba was born on the 14th February 2009 Valentines day, she was definitely sent with love. Sheba is a Dogue de Bordeaux X Rottweiler we have owned her since she was 8 weeks old, now she likes to think she owns us. Sheba has passed her Kennel Club Puppy foundation and Bronze and Silver good citizen awards and is working towards her Gold award. She loves her walks and swimming.

Next up is Cody. 

Cody's quite happy to let us share the house with him as long as we keep paying the mortgage.

Cody is a Maine Coon cross so we've been told, we adopted Cody when he was 12 months old off a lady who had 25 cats and had to rehome some of them due to a change in circumstances. Cody settled in straight away and wasn't bothered by Sheba and vice versa which was good, Cody now rules the house and Sheba. When Cody meows jump everyone jumps especially at tea time he lets you know in no uncertain terms that it's feeding time and won't shut up until he's been fed. His stomach keeps better track of time than my watch. He loves his food. His favourite thing at the moment is scratching the wall paper for attention, which is becoming a bit annoying.

Sheba and Cody geting to know each other shortly after bringing Cody home. Who says cats and dogs can't live peacefully together.

Anyone is free to get involved in this Blog hop whether you have a Blog or pets or not.

If your pet has their own twitter account or you tweet mostly about pets leave the link to your twitter account so we can all follow each other. Don’t forget to follow back!!!!

Wordless Wednesday. My Mum loves me.

My Mum loves me.

How to make a blog button for your blog.

I know a few people who have been having trouble trouble making Blog buttons for there blog, due to the coding me included until i found a site that would generate the code for me.

First off you will need a photo or some other graphics or logo.
Once you have your photo, graphics or logo sorted you will need a photo editing software program i.e Photoshop, Gimp etc. Gimp is a free software download.

Once you have your photo editing program sorted you can then mess around with different effects to customise your photo or whatever you decide to use for your button. When you have it to your liking resize it i think about 125px X 125px is the right size so it doesn't look out of place in your sidebar.

Then upload it to Photobucket or some other photo hosting site i always use photobucket, you need this hosting site so you can get the image url.

Than go to this site http://www.mycoolrealm.com/sandbox/gbgen/ enter your blog name, photo url from photobucket or whatever program you use and your blog url. You can preview your button before generating the code.

And then you will have your code to paste into your sidebar.

This is my button that i done.

You could do something more fancy but I'm just trying to get used to photo editing. I hope that helps people out.