Wish Rita a Happy Bday; Help a Dog in Need!

Last Thursday* was Rita's fifth birthday. To celebrate, for every person who comments wishing her a happy birthday we'll donate $1** to Baja Animal Sanctuary, the rescue in Mexico where we got Rita.

We've been celebrating Rita's b-day all week, culminating with today's donation-fest. It's what my friends and I always call a "Hanukkah Birthday." (What would be really great would be a "Ramadan Birthday"!) Hmmm. Just remembered Hanukkah is 8 days, and we're only celebrating Rita for 7 days. Guess this is technically her "Hanukkah -1 Birthday."

On her actual bday, we went to the beach:

As a hopefully-interesting aside... the news said these little crab thingies were blanketing the beach one day last week. Luckily by the time we got there, it was just the after-math. Not sure what Rita would have done with thousands of them!

The aftermath of Crab-pocalypse

On Friday, she got her brand-new PrideBites frisbee with her face on it! (Long story behind this...)

Looks worried that maybe I think the toy is cuter than her. (Never!!)

Saturday, we went for her bi-annual Flying Dutchman (two patties, two cheese from In-N-Out Burger, which she only gets on her bday in June and Gotcha Day in January).

Waiting for her Dutchman at the drivethru

Sunday we tried to give her a Frosty Paw - but she turned it down!! (WtH??) She got a pizzle instead, but I forgot to take pics of any of that.

Monday, she got a Rachel Ray "soup bone" treat. It was reduced to a few teensy crumbs in mere minutes, so she must have liked it!

Tuesday, she got another PrideBites toy - a skull and crossbones, that matches her leash!

I think so far she had more fun opening it than playing with it...

And Wednesday, today, we'll celebrate with this post and the donation for the comments!

Thanks for helping us celebrate, and for helping out BAS and Rita's fellow Mexican rescue buddies!

* We don't really know when her b-day is since she's a rescue, but BAS estimated she was born in June so we picked the 16th for her special day.

** To a max of $250. I don't REALLY expect to get over 250 comments - probably the most I've ever gotten is in the 30's - but figured I should set a max just in case... And I should probably put a time limit on this, so it will include every person who comments through the end of the day July 4th.

Thanks to BlogPaws for hosting Wordless Wednesday! You can check out all the blogs in the hop here.