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America's Most Pet-Friendly Cities
No.1
Colorado Springs, Colo.
If each of the city’s 113 veterinarians took six appointments a day for five days a week, they could take almost four months off and still see every pet in town before the year is over.
No 2.
Portland, Ore.
Portland has 31 parks dedicated to dogs, the most in the country after New York, and the most per capita by a wide margin.
No. 3
Albuquerque, N.M.
Over 33,000 acres of public parks, or about a quarter acre for every dog, cat and pet bird in the city.
No. 4
Austin, Texas
Austin has 184 veterinarians, third most in the country behind Houston and Portland. It also did very well in the open space category, with 122 acres of parks for every 1,000 pets.
No. 5
Charlotte, N.C.
A growing city with over 17,000 acres of public parks, Charlotte offers 141 vets and 127 other pet supply and service stores to its 610,000 people.
No. 6
Virginia Beach, Va.
Virginia is for pet lovers–so says 15,000 acres of public parks and 191 pet businesses, all in a city with fewer than 450,000 people.
No. 7
Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas City is the eighth-cheapest city for veterinarian services in the U.S., and fourth-best when it comes to open space, with more than 100 acres of public space for every 1,000 pets.
No. 8
St. Louis
St. Louis’ 199 pet-related businesses are second only to Minneapolis for cities with fewer than 400,000 residents. The city also ranked well in the health care categories, coming in sixth on the number of vets per pet and seventh lowest cost of an annual vet exam.
No. 9
Seattle
It rains a lot, and vet services are expensive compared to the other cities we looked at, but the Emerald City has 11 dog parks and 373 pet-related businesses.
No. 10
Denver
There are 503 pet-related businesses in metro Denver, more than any city in the country.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Review of FREE Gift Giveaways, Sweepstakes & Contest
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I decided to try entering online contests for myself. Every pop-up offer I encountered, I said yes. I searched Google for "contests" and just started entering one Internet sweepstakes after another. For an entire day, I committed to the task and ended up entering dozens if not a hundred or so contests.
I created a new e-mail account to use with all the entry forms. I wanted to keep my working e-mail account free of junk, but I also wanted to determine how much spam the contests generated.
I thought that would be enough to keep myself isolated from the contest solicitors, but almost every entry form mandated a phone number and street address. I used the general ABC street address and bought a prepaid phone to handle any incoming calls or texts.
And did I get texts! Almost instantly after filling out some contests' entry forms I received text messages with a PIN number. They exhorted me to go back to the entry area and enter the PIN so I could receive even more chances to win.
I didn't accept any of the premium text offers, but I did continue to enter contests.
I found some that looked really legitimate like one on the NBA.com site and one on the M&M's site. I also entered Facebook contests where you become a fan of a company or group to gain a chance to win.
Twitter proved to be an interesting new venue for contests. I entered nine contests there. Most seem like ploys to get more followers, including some very legit-looking contests from designer Vivienne Tam, and a Web site I know and like called DealsPlus.
Top 10 FREEBIES
Top 10 Giveaways
Top 10 Sweepstakes
1. McDonald’s®
2. Pepsi
Top 10 Contest
Top Sweepstakes Web sites
WinPrizesOnline.com is a sweepstakes aggregator with an interactive community identifying the highest quality sweepstakes so that users can quickly find and enter them. Users get free access to sweepstakes from across the Internet. The Web site also has a sweepstakes community with forums and interactive comments where users can swap hints and information about general strategy as well as specific sweepstakes.
SweepstakesHub.com publishes daily promotions and prizes. The site searches for grand prizes and only publishes premium giveaways such as international vacations and home makeovers. They also find college scholarships to apply for; the search tools are free.
Insider Sweepstakes Tips
Wendy Limauge, founder and blogger for SweetiesSweeps.com, reveals her top four secrets to becoming a professional and successful sweeper. She's won electronics, vacations and even a car through sweepstakes.
Create a Separate E-mail Address Sign up for a free e-mail address to use just for entering sweepstakes. A personal e-mail inbox can get filled up with extra e-mails. Companies will send newsletters sponsoring the sweepstakes and confirmation e-mails once you enter some instant win games and sweepstakes. Players will also get notified when they win a prize, but those e-mails could get lost among personal emails.Use Autofill Shortcuts to Complete Forms Download and install a form filler program. Autofill and Roboform are programs that help fill out entry forms without having to type the same information each time. They are often free to download and install.Only Play the Best Odds Start by entering the most winnable sweepstakes and instant win games. A winnable sweepstakes is one that gives better odds for winning a prize. It might be a sweepstakes that offers more prizes (1,000, 2,000, 10,000, etc.) so more people have a chance of winning. It might be a sweepstakes that is being held for one day, week or month. The less time the sweepstakes is available for entering, the fewer people who will find out about it. Or, maybe it is restricted in some way. It might only be open to an entrant of a certain age group, or teachers, military members, or maybe just open to residents of a particular state. By focusing on the winnables, players have better odds of winning a prize.Safeguard Against Scams Watch out for scams and sweepstakes that sell players' information. Some sweepstakes throw in special offers that must be opted out of by unclicking tiny boxes at the bottom of the online entry form. Skip anything that asks for a credit card number. A legitimate sweepstakes would never ask for it. And never pay money to enter a sweepstakes. The purpose of contests is to generate buzz for a product or brand, not for them to make money from players.Finding legit sweepstakes is easier than ever.
Several websites list hundreds of new vetted sweepstakes every day. My favorites are the free www.sweepstakestoday.com, www.wholemom.com and www.sweepsadvantage.com. Facebook (FB) is also a new source of sweepstakes I have been exploring.
Optimize Your Odds
The biggest hurdle is increasing your odds. Many sweeps offer the opportunity to enter daily, and some offer unlimited entries. You can bookmark these easily and either use your browser's autofill options or a free application like Roboform to fill out entries to save hours of tedious typing. I like to get in at the beginning of an entry period and enter daily until the end.
Many sweeps will offer extra entries if you share on social media. Why not? You can double the number of your entries by sharing. After sharing on one Facebook sweep my entries were quintupled the next time I signed in.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Friday, April 1, 2016
A TO Z CHALLENGE
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A TO Z CHALLENGE SIGN UP/LIST [2015]
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Please read and follow the sign-up instructions outlined below so you sign onto the list correctly!
The brainchild of the A to Z Challenge is posting every day in April except Sundays (we get those off for good behavior.) And since there are 30 days, that matches the 30 letters of the alphabet. On April 1, blog about something that begins with the letter “A.” April 2 is “B,” April 3 is “C,” and so on. You can use a theme for the month or go random – just as long as it matches the letter of the alphabet for the day.
The A to Z Challenge is a great way to get into the blogging habit and make new friends. For more details and its history, go HERE
We recommend short posts, turn off Word Verification, and visit five blogs (or more) a day beginning with the one after yours on the list.
Blogs must be on an open platform – no Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. – and comments enabled.
To streamline legitimate blogs from advertisement blogs, the Co-Hosts will be visiting each blog on this list throughout the Challenge. Blogs on the list showing no activity once the Challenge starts or miss five days in a row will be removed.
Please note your blog name and number in all correspondences. Remember that as blogs are removed, your number will change.
There are categories for those looking for like-minded blogs. Select ONE category code and enter it after your blog’s title/name. The code applies to your blog, not your theme for the Challenge and is purely optional. See the first few blogs on the list for examples. However, if your blog has adult content, you MUST mark it (AC) or it will be removed from the list. Codes are as follows:
ANIMALS: (AN)
ART: (AR)
BOOKS/REVIEWS: (BO)
CRAFTS: (CR)
CULINARY: (CU)
EDUCATION: (ED)
FASHION: (FA)
FILM/MOVIES: (FM)
GAMING: (GA)
GARDENING: (GR)
HISTORY: (HI)
HUMOR: (HU)
LIFESTYLE: (LI )
MEMOIR: (ME)
MUSIC: (MU)
MYTHOLOGY: (MY)
PERSONAL: (PR)
PHOTOGRAPHY: (PH)
POLITICS: (PO)
SCIENCE: (SC)
SOCIAL MEDIA: (SO)
SPORTS: (SP)
TRAVEL: (TR)
WRITING/STORYTELLING: (WR)
ADULT CONTENT: (AC)
Be sure to grab the badge and display it in your sidebar so we know you are participating and link to the A to Z Challenge Blog.
For more information we recommend you follow the A to Z Challenge Blog and the hosts:
Skippy @ Skippy Dog Walking
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Twitter hashtag is #skippyAtoZChallenge and Twitter id is @April302016
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