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It is time to choose your favorite 12 girls for the 2007 BPO Calendar. Since there were so many entries, it was simply easier to break them up into a boys & girls vote. Then, after the top 12 have been chosen, we'll combine the top 24 for the final vote next week.

Remember, please vote for your favorite 12 girls here and then vote for your favorite 12 boys in the other thread.

Good Luck! Everyone has awesome submissions!

Just saw this brand new site dibbydog.ca - pretty cool. Someone needs to tell us about it!

Attention! Attention! It's that time again!

Here are the contestants for the Big Paws Only Thanksgiving Contest. Each contestant has worked long and hard to get into shape and hold still for that perfect shot. The proud moms and dads have worked tirelessly to make their pooch the best they can be. Before casting your vote, make sure you look long and hard at each entry.

Vote for the dogs (one female and one male) you like the most based on overall cuteness!

Good luck to everyone! You all look great!

this one is a tough one.. I'll keep you posted.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we know that all of the fur kids are just waiting for the turkey to fall into their mouths.  This month's  is special! We're going to be looking for your doggies to be dressed as Pilgrims, Indians, or Turkeys.   Grin

Don't forget to send your picture to jabear@gmail.com along with your username, dog's name and dog's gender.

Submission dates: November 13-20
Voting Dates: November 21-25
Winners Announced: November 26

Hey everyone. Just to clarify, it’s not that we can’t, it’s that we don’t. A. we don’t really keep track as this is, at the moment just a hobby. If we did, we would invite suggestions from across the board that we’re not interested in entertaining. We like the site the way it is, we could obviously do better in certain areas, but we could also be a lot worse. As I explained to some of our friends, sometimes costs reflect mistakes that are of our own cause. Because we create a lot of our own software, to provide something different we’re simply in a different world. We just paid a $740 support bill, for programming errors that caused larger problems. We have contractors to program and debug. A lot, we do ourselves. We pay overage fees. In fact, it seems since the beginning of this site, we’ve been paying overage fees. The very first month we killed 180 other websites as we shared hosting space with them and the Big Paws traffic killed the server. Our provider forced us to a virtual shared space and allocated half the resources to our site only to do the same thing only days later. We now have an entire server for this site that brings even more issues – namely support costs, and we STILL go over. Is there an exact amount of money spent? Sure, but is there an exact amount of money needed? No! Jaime and I manage, as the costs are offset by revenue, and we have enough to pay the rest. Our requests come at times when unanticipated problems occur, and they’re enough to make us uncomfortable.

Next, your comparison of mossler dogs hosting more and providing more is factually untrue. As Amazon’s Alexa, an independent traffic reporting tool, ranks BPO, on a scale from number 1 to nothing, at pos: 217,219. Mossler is below the one million mark. See the graph below. What it comes down to is traffic and resources to serve that traffic.

Finally, this is request for support from our friends and those that *want* to contribute, who enjoy the site and  want help us out. There is no set amount, you don’t have to help. A health amount of skepticism is healthy for certain, but untrue accusations are not needed. If you know us, you would know of our convictions, and likewise, we know of our friends’.   

Attention! Attention! It's that time again!

Here are the contestants for the Big Paws Only Halloween Contest. Each contestant has worked long and hard to get into shape and hold still for that perfect shot. The proud moms and dads have worked tirelessly to make their pooch the best they can be. Before casting your vote, make sure you look long and hard at each entry.

Vote for the dogs (one female and one male) you like the most based on overall cuteness!

Good luck to everyone! You all look great!

fun times..
nice to see u!