Yes, you read it right… The winner of this contest is going to win a coffee table book! Only vote ONCE per  person(please no voting often) you are welcome to send this to friends and have them vote for their favorites too, if that happens to be your photo, that is great!    There is no cash value to this prize, which, is meaning in fine print speak you can’t choose to get cash vs the book.  But come on!  These books are AWESOME!   There is/was no purchase necessary, nothing you have had to do. This is just my favorites from 2009 and I wanted to pass on the fun and chance to win something great

I picked out only SOME of the standouts from the year. If you feel I have left you out(must have been taken in 2009), and you ought to be in this contest too, drop me  a line at Julie@Juliepoole.com and I will add you.  Do it quick though, as Voting ends Saturday January 9th, 2010 at 11:30pm.  So, share this with your friends!!

One last thing…The poll is IP based and if you have a static IP, that goes through one router(which most homes and businesses do) it counts the entire place no matter the number of computers/users as *one*.  Being I am not that techy, I have no idea how to change it.  There have been questions about it, so, that is the answer

So, onto the contestants!

1) Melissa

2) Raven

3)Harlee

4)Tuscany

5)Ben

6) Esteps

7) Jennifer Scarlett and Murphy

8)Oscar

9)The Pressleys

10) The Fersches

11) The Houseman 4

12) Maggie

13) Andrew

14) Barrett and Kona

15)Puggy

16)Dun ken

17) Seamus

18) Susan and Chris

19) Sharon and Kayleigh

20)Angel

21)April, Elvis and Tinkerbell

22) Jesse

23)Schoponi

24) Lily

25)Caren’s kids

26) Zac

27)Nelson

28) Dawn and Sturgis

29) cute dog

30) Wedding Party

31) The Miller babies

32) Erin and her dogs

33) Beautiful Keeshound

34)Matt and Kate

35) Evie Star

36) Amy Bryant’s rescue GSD’s

37)Dino

38) Fergal

39)Nala

40) Fiona

41) Winner’s Dog

42) Jessen Family

43) Beautiful pit bull

44)Molly

45) Lyle family

46) Woods

47)CC

48)Mulbheier family

49)boy and his dogs

50)John Carter

51)The Reedy family

52)Jesse and Tucker

53)Juneau

54) Pretty Polly

55) Cousins

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The year is going to kick off with the “Portraits for Hope” fundraiser. The Hope Center was established in 1996 to address the unmet needs of individuals infected with HIV-AIDS in Knox and surrounding 20 counties. Due to gaps in care for this population, Hope Center began developing and implementing consistent, practical, psychological and supportive care programs at no charge to patients and families affected by HIV-AIDS and other serious illnesses. Located in Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Hope Center is adjacent to physician offices. This location facilitates continuity of care between the hospital and home and allows patients to be followed from diagnosis through their last days.

So, the good news if you missed the Pet Portrait Fundraiser, you can join in on the Portraits for Hope! There will be more to come on this. Sign up for my newsletter and it will be emailed to you. I will blog about this again and please find me on facebook! I will be putting it on my “events”.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday!!!!

I facebooked/Twittered about Sammy yesterday. All the people who love and care for him and I, would LOVE to give this guy a Christmas miracle and find him the perfect home. He has lived for the past year at Northshore Animal Hosptial I believe they got him out of a bad situation, malnourished and mistreated. You’d never know it when you meet him. He is a big, healthy happy guy. He is an outgoing, goofy boy who loves everyone and just wants you to pay attention to him. He knows sit, down, shake, and high five. He is completely crate trained and possibly house trained(he has not been loose in a house to know) I would imagine he would have no problems becoming housetrained. He is neutered and up to date on shots.

He needs a home that has a fenced yard that he can enjoy running in, a nice bed in the house and someone who will love him. He would probably do well with a laid back female dog, but, probably not with any dominant dogs. Older children would be fine, but, smaller ones he would probably knock over on accident.

If you think you could be Sammy’s perfect home, please call the clinic at 865-769-8800.

Raven has been coming to see me for I think three years. He is one of those special cats that loves people, settles well anywhere and it just a cool cat!