Pet Cancer Awareness Month

May is Pet Cancer Awareness month. Many of you know that Mar is a cancer survivor. Almost 2 years ago he had a boo boo on his tail, it would not heal, we took him to his vet and the vet said it could be cancer. We were like 'ohh it can't be that - he is so healthy'. The test results proved it was cancer. No other cancer was found in his body so we decided to amputate his tail. Since then we have found a few lumps - no cancer!


Last week Mar (also refereed to as Tuxedo Bad Ass) had his teeth cleaned - (every six months we go in), shots and some grooming. He had to get four teeth pulled - including his 2 lower canines. Mar was born with bad gums and requires extra teeth cleaning. He was groggy and sore the first night home. He found Pusheen from Everyday Cute relaxing - excuse the dark quality - it was night and the lights were low.

Please take the time to read up on pet cancer here : PCA and make a donation if you can! I am wearing my blue bracelet all month long and telling the story about how little tails rock!

Modesto's vegan bake sale - Awesome day!

April 29th through May 2nd marked the second annual World Wide Vegan Bake Sale. All around the world people were in their kitchens baking up some tasty treats minus all the animal ingredients usually associated with baking. Last year the event was during my birthday weekend and I was in San Francisco. I stopped by San Francisco’s event and saw the set up, met some people and thought to myself “I could do that” and this year I did.

I chose May 1st because May is the official pet cancer awareness month. Last year my cat Mar was diagnosed with cancer and thankfully it was treated when we had his tail amputated. He is doing fine now. I want to give other cats and dogs a fighting chance.
I started planning in March, first came location. After finding one I started looking for bakers. At first I thought I would be the only one baking. My mom offered to help and soon after people started contacting me. I was so excited and super thrilled. We even had Vegan Propaganda send in dog treats from NJ! Awesome right? My boyfriend Matthew designed some simple fliers, we printed them out on recycled paper and placed them all over town and on our social networking sites.


May 1st arrives and I am up frosting a few dozen cupcakes I made the night before and getting the car packed. We arrived early and while it was windy we got things together. Bakers and friends started arriving and pretty soon we had a nice set up. There were various flavors of cupcakes, a variety of raw treats, chocolate chip cookies, raspberry blondies and solar oven baked cinnamon rolls to name some of the stuff there.


While the food and new friends were awesome the best part of the day was when we counted the money and realized we made $400 in four hours that is going to help the local animals in our community. With kitten season around the corner we are helping getting cats trapped and neutered and buying much needed medicine.




I want to thank the awesome people that came out and helped, people that spread the word and people that came out and bought yummy treats. This inspires me on so many levels. I get misty eyes just thinking about how awesome the day was.