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I thought this would be a fun discussion. What is the story behind your blog’s name? I just wrote a post on my blog and you can read the story behind Doodling Dogs here.
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I loved your post. My heart was in my throat so ending up with the dogs “doodling around” at the neighbors was fabulous.
When I started blogging, I was trying to find a name that would be witty and possibly incorporate a pun. After trying out lots of options, I thought of Something Wagging This Way Comes inspired by the Ray Bradbury novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I skipped a couple years of English classes in high school so I had no idea the quote originally came from MacBeth, a play I never read.
The one problem is that SWTWC is a popular acronym so it was hard to find a twitter handle or shortened name.
I’ve never written about how I chose the name. Lots of people tell me it’s cute but I don’t know how many folks get the literary reference.
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I wish I could say I have a great story behind the name of my blog but I really don’t. For the first five months, when no one read my blog anyway, I had called it “My Crazy Dog”. Which was accurate but not very creative. I kind of took inspiration from a blog titled “Shaping Chaos.” Since I couldn’t steal the name directly, I spent a long time thinking of different words that would fit together.
Every night for a whole week when I walked my dog, I would think of different ideas in my head. Eventually I came up with “Rescued Insanity.” It just seemed to work. I asked my husband his opinion and I finally had a title!
No great inspirational moment for me, I am afraid. Maybe I should make one up. I am very glad your dogs were just doodling!
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Great post! It’s neat to find out where blog names came from. Some people are so creative and I always wish I had thought of something like their name. For afFURmation, I was trying to find a name where I could do some sort of play on words. That’s the one that stuck. I’m not sure I’m in love with it, but I like that it’s one word so hopefully easy to remember.
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Great topic!
My oldest girl, Arwen, is our matriarch. She’s taught my youngest, Nyxie, all the good and not so good behaviors that can be gotten away with at our house. We treat our own family as a pack – respect the leaders, everyone works together for the common good, rejoicing in togetherness and doing each day to its fullest. That sums up my blog’s story – thanks for the opportunity to share.
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I have two. The first one was my Dog-a-dayartblog.blogspot.com
I am a painter and there was a real trend to do a painting a day. Only I didn’t like strawberries and knives and kitchen utensils that most of the daily painters did. I always liked things with eyeballs!
I set myself a goal to spend at least a year painting in my local off-leash park. The bulk of the blog is the minis (5×7″) that I would do in my “Cesar Milan” marketing style: I would paint -no talking, no touching, no eye contact – and wait. It was not allowed to sell things in the park, and honestly I did not! I just painted at the entrance.
I found it took two to three days.
The regulars would swoop past (who is that odd woman) and do their business. Often the dogs would try to say hi… Second day the dogs might win and I would scratch an ear on the fly…. by the third day, the owners curiosity would get them…. “what are you doing?” “I paint pet portraits” and I would hand them the portfolio of my finished pieces!
I did it a full year and a few. Some were commissions, a few filled in from previous years, but I did post daily. Then my mom got cancer and it got my rhythm off. She had surgery and did well…. but when my cat got sick, I sort of lost interest in dogs….
This is where mycatthedude.blogspot.com showed up. It is going to document the process of raising money for and actually getting the Radiocat Radioactive Iodine treatment for hyperthyroid cats.
I have a funding site and have financed the procedure! I am in the final phase of paying my vet for the tests and follow up on the thing. I took him in today for the x-rays and blood work. Two weeks about until he finally is off meds twice a day and gets BOTH of us normal lives!
(This cat really HATES all the attention. He can go back to hibernating for days on end…) (…and I can go on trips!)
Thanks for the question….I needed a little distraction!
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Fun! I love reading everyone’s stories. Mine’s fairly straightforward… everyone was asking when my husband and I were going to have kids, so I always just replied that I wanted more puppies. Then a lot of my friends started baby blogging, and I thought it’d be fun to give blogging a try. But it couldn’t be a baby blog, so “I Still Want More Puppies” was born!
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I have no creativity. I named my blog after myself but added the tag line “Life with Sampson and Delilah, the 411”.
That was a great story about how you found your blog name, I am so glad you found your pups too! S & D have two collars (what is called a ‘show’ collar for inside/in the yard and a regular collar that a leash clips to for when needed.) Both collars have tags with their name, my name and my cell phone number on it.
You can never be too careful. 🙂
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My blog will cover what happens when normal sits it!
As an artist, I sort of was considering this a business expense! Every trip I take away from home I will thank this procedure for! In fact, I am going to visit my mother as she recovers from her 6th and for now final chemo, which I have not been able to do for her whole treatment. While in Show Low AZ I will see what sort of art jobs or subjects I can find.
It will be come more of “the Dude and me” with art shows and projects, not just him.
Thank yo so much for asking!
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Dawn Miklich said:
Beautiful painting Debra! Something I wish I could make time to learn. What are your plans for your blog after the treatment and everything settles back to normal? -
Being a shelter photographer volunteer, was looking for a way to showcase some of the beautiful photos of the adoptable pets. Since I photograph all animals, cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets, mice, birds and even hairless rats; I needed a name that wasn’t breed or type specific. “Stray No More” was born.
Since I have been blogging the photos, I have noticed another organization in OK with the same name. I would love to hear your feedback as if you think I should change mine? I am halfway across the country in Virginia from them. http://straynomore.wordpress.com/
thanks, great topic! -Kim
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My blog’s title, 7.6 Lbs of Awesome, was inspired by our dog’s weight when we adopted him from the shelter–that, and the fact that he is awesome. 🙂
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I absolutely love your name!
7.6 Lbs of Awesome said:
My blog’s title, 7.6 Lbs of Awesome, was inspired by our dog’s weight when we adopted him from the shelter–that, and the fact that he is awesome. 🙂
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Thanks so much!!! We love yours, too! 🙂
Doodling Dogs said:
I absolutely love your name!
7.6 Lbs of Awesome said:
My blog’s title, 7.6 Lbs of Awesome, was inspired by our dog’s weight when we adopted him from the shelter–that, and the fact that he is awesome. 🙂
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Hello my name is Brit,
The story behind our blog was that my little dog got into some trouble with a red ink pen and creme carpet. My husband was suppose to be watching him but there was a phone call and he was distracted for a bit. By the time he got off Jaxson had already chewed the pen. I told my husband to go get the camera as one day we will laugh at this moment but not now. A few weeks later I came up with the idea to write from Jaxson’s point of view over the incident after seeing the photos- From that day forward we started to write about their misfit adventures (I have two dogs).
Showed to a few people and Proof! blog happened. I wanted was a “A Dogs Life”, but felt that these stories/posts are more diary entries so we changed it to A Dog’s Journal. Recently we decided to expand on this (Overhauled the site) and allow other types of post but keeping the “Dog’s Point of View”, so now we are starting to write reviews on their toys (currently not paid for, just the favorites that we know of) and Health, local shelter & gathering Event information.
Been a lot of fun and here is the post (& Pic) of the start of it all: http://adogsjournal.com/caught-red-pawed/
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Mine wasn’t very creative.. My puppy’s name is Luna.. she is a dog (I think… sometimes I think she’s human) and it’s her life.. so Luna, A dog’s life.. 🙂
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The story behind my blog’s name is that — well — I am a woman and my dog is my best friend. Hence Woman’s Best Friend
Not incredibly creative but incredibly accurate 🙂
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Dullesdog.blogspot.com is fairly new but it was developed after many humorous writings I posted about my dog and our walks/activities etc. together on Facebook. After learning several people loved the posts and to allow more room for writing, and add pics, I created the blog.
The blog is written from my dog’s perspective- I turn the computer on and log him in, he does the writing (awful rough on the keyboard though). Noah writes about his life with humans, will gives tips on dog/cat care, focus on shelters, etc. throughout the life of the blog.
The blog is intended to be written from a humorous, dry humor and sometimes sarcastic attitude. Check it out when you get a chance.
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