2022 Calendars - All Ready For You!

Thrilled to let you know the 2022 LOVE OUR DOGS Charity calendars are all ready for you to order and purchase now!! As mentioned before, this year's theme is based on Staycation with your Doggies in Hong Kong. What's best to do with your four-legged friends in Hong Kong? Nothing beats bringing them to have a good walk and explore the beauty of Hong Kong together! Grateful to have local artist Alan Cheung (@fatlundraw) to volunteer painting all the beautiful sketches of Hong Kong hiking scenery for this project! Do challenge yourself and see if you can recognise all 12 scenery spots that I have selected and included in this calendar! And if you have not yet visit some of them, bring your dogs and visit now!

Thanks again to my dear friends who sponsored 12 doggies-featured months in the calendars, without this to start with, I will have no lovely doggies for me to photoshoot and start the project. Seeing how most of you were helpless with giving commands to your doggies at photo-shoot brought me a good laugh! But there are quite a number of doggies listening to their mommy/daddy diligently. I am also impressed by my friends adopting doggies who had a history of suffering. The little pug featured in Dec is only a puppy while I did my photo shoot was blind from birth. The Akita featured in Sep was also having a hard time delivering litter non-stop. Really happy to see my kind hearted friends giving them a warm and happy home.

Thanks to Simon of Acumen Paper for sponsoring me paper for the calendars for a few years already! it drastically cut down the cost of this project and made some balance for donations. Same as all these years, only printing costs are deducted from the sales proceeds and ALL are donated.

Thanks to Pam and Ringo of IDOL Printing. Pam helped me lots with completing my design job, especially on the cover! Appreciated!! I understand you guys have already provided me with the most economical printing and delivery costs and making me able to get more net proceeds for donation.

Thanks to my corporate sponsors Mega Pet, Whiskers N Paws, The Barkyard, The Veterinary Specialty Hospital, Valley Veterinary Centre, Green Common, Brown's Tailor, Rock Tone Music, Club String and Megan's Kitchen. Your continued support to this little project means a lot to me.

Hope this little project of mine can bring meaningful donations to Hong Kong Dog Rescue, SAA, LAP, SPCA and Hong Kong Homeless Dog Shelter and which in turn provided much needed help to helpless doggies.

Please enjoy my little project and use it daily! :)

If you wish to place an order, please fill in order form attached below.

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2022 Calendars about to launch and release!

Delighted to update you all that the 2022 calendars will be ready for your order and purchase now! Printed matters target to be delivered to me around end Sep/ early Oct! Here's a preview of the cover!

For the 2022 calendar, the theme I chose was exploring the beauty of Hong Kong with your furry friends. I am very lucky to be able to recruit local artist Mr. Alan Cheung to do all the sketches of the hiking scenic spots all around Hong Kong. How many spots could you recognise from the cover below? And how many of such scenic spots have you ever hiked to or brought your four legged companion along? If not, it's time you plan your trip now as it's already fall and I am sure you will find this rewarding!

Just message me with your order/donation details. Same as previous years and projects, tax receipt is available if you provide me with details.

In the meantime, wishing you all a Happy Mid Autumn Festival. Cherish the gathering time with your doggies, family, friends and loved ones. Or simply enjoy  gazing the Moon and appreciating nature's beauty and wonder.

2021 Calendar Wrap-Up

 

It is the usual time of the year that I started to plan and work on next year calendar project (ie the 2022 calendar!) and it is now that I realised I missed posting the details of sales and donations for the 2021 calendar. Signs of aging perhaps....here are the supporting evidence :) 

* receipt from printer re printing job for 2500 copies of calendar at total HK$51,250.

* acknowledgement letter from HKDR re donations received in the amount of HK$100,000.

* acknowledgement letter from SAA re donations received in the amount of HK$100,000.

*acknowledgement letter from SPCA re donations received in the amount of HK$50,000.

*acknowledgement letter from Hong Kong Homeless Dog Shelter in the amount of HK$50,000 (to-be-received from them)

Hopefully, the 2022 project can raise even more funds for all these NGOs helping the doggies-in-need. STAY TUNED and PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR SUPPORT to my little project :)

 

2021 All Calendars are sold and donations made!

Very happy to announce that all 2500 calendars printed for 2021 are all sold! And this little project has raised a total of HK$300,000 for donation to the beneficiary organisations including HKDR, SAA, SPCA and HKhomelessdogs (replacing TNR)! All donations have been made today and more details about the 2021 project will be posted here soon!

Thanks again for all the kind support from the 12 months' paw-parents sponsors, Melissa Tan from @painkink_by_melt for helping me did all the beautiful illustrations, Acumen for sponsoring the paper and saved me lots of costs, Idol Printing for helping me on the professional printing and delivery job, all the corporate sponsors (including Mega Pets, Whiskas N Paws, The Barkyard, Green Common, Megan's Kitchen, Club String, Brown's Tailor, Rock Tone Music as well as Valley Centre and Veterinary Specialty Hospital, and of course all of you who bought this calendar (and many of you Iunderstood have supported this project since 2009 :)). Without your support, my own work don't achieve much.

Hopefully, the beneficiary organisations above will help the doggies-in-need.

Happy Friday all!

TNR Fund HK

Just been informed by TNR Fund HK that they will cease operation by end of this year and will not require distribution of proceeds from our 2021 calendar project.

Thanks for TNR whos been doing lots of Trap, Neuter and Release work for the doggies in the wild in the past years.

All proceeds from the 2021 calendar project less only printing costs will be donated and distributed to HKDR, SAA and SPCA.

Stay tuned for the calendar sales results!

2021 LOVE OUR DOGS Charity Doggies Calendar - ready for your purchase on 31 Aug 2020

After months of preparation, the calendars are finally ready for your purchase next Mon at the following places:

@MegansKitchen

@ClubString

@VSH

@ValleyVet

@SAA

@HKDR

@SPCA

@TNRFund

@Megapets

@WNP

@Barkyard

@BrowsTailor

@RockToneMusic

@GreenCommon

If you like this project and wish to show your support, please be generous and give me a LIKE & SHARE https://www.instagram.com/loveourdogscalendar/ and https://www.facebook.com/loveourdogs

If you like the illustrations in the calendar, kindly support artist Mel and give a LIKE & SHARE https://www.instagram.com/paintinks_by_melt/ and https://www.facebook.com/Paintinks.by.melt

Here's a preview of all the pages. COVID19 is turning the world upside now and all of us on earth are adapting and even creating new ways to live our lives. Hopefully, one thing will remain the same - and that is a man's pure heart and soul, that we still know our basic morals - love and respect one another and all living creatures.

Hope you and all of your 4-legged friends will keep Safe and Healthy, Happy & Positive!

2021 Love Our Dogs Charity Calendar - Now Under Printing!!

Thrilled and delighted to inform you all that the 2021 calendar now under printing and ready for all of you this September!

Yes, I am still the one doing all the photos, design and production...and entirely grateful to have these supporters all along and I guess my Bilu (now in Rainbow Bridge) should be over-looking me all along:

* sponsors from each of Jan to Dec taking time to bring their adorable doggies for photoshoot and sponsoring their respective month;

* all illustrations in the calendar are created and done by Melissa of @Paintinks_by_Melt, a big applause as they added a whole new dimension and mood for the calendar;

* paper of the calendars are wholly sponsored by @AcumenPaper;

* printing done by #Idol Printing at a discounted price and big thanks to their design team in helping me fine tuning everything; and

* commercial sponsors include @MegansKitchen @ClubString @VeterinarySpecialtyHospital @MegaPets @WhiskersnPaws @Barkyard @GreenCommon @ValleyVetCentre @BrownsTailor @RockToneMusic

Like all previous years, only printing costs are deducted from total proceeds and 100% of such net proceeds are donated to @HKDR @SPCA @SAA and @TNRFund to help the doggies in need.

Here's a preview of the calendar. Hope you can all continue to support this project! Pre-order 10 calendars on or before 28 Aug 2020 and get a HK$100 cash coupon sponsored by @MegansKitchen!