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You all know how I love kitties and puppies, but how cute are these snow monkeys, just chilling in a hot spring? I thought Fuzzy Friday would be a perfect time to talk about my upcoming SPCA fundraiser. Those of you who’ve been hanging around these parts for a while may remember last year. Between mid-March and mid-April, I raised over $1,300 for the critters by donating 100% of the revenue from the sale of my keychain bottle openers to the MD SPCA. This year I want to raise even more.

So here’s what’s on deck and how you can help:

1. I’m organizing a pack to walk at the MD SPCA’s March for the Animals. The event is Sunday, April 17th, in Baltimore’s Druid Hill park. It’s a fun day and there are always lots of cute animals on parade. There are loads of dogs but I’ve seen other beasties including giant iguanas. So cool! If you’re in the B’more area and you think you can talk your friends into coughing up a few bucks for the SPCA and you want to hang out with me at the event, join my pack. I’d love to hang with some of you awesome Ex-BF fans and feature you right here on the blog.

2. Last year I donated 100% of the revenue from the sale of keychain bottle openers to the MD SPCA. So many of you guys bought them (because you are best ever). But now you all have keychains, so I want to hook you up with something new. This year I am thinking about offering the following items.

P.S. If you want to feel motivated to help some animals in need, just check out this tear jerker of a tale about a dog named Wonder.

The cute face above belongs to a red panda. This solitary cutie likes to hang out in Asia (mostly in China, Myanmar and Nepal), where he munches on bamboo and worries about becoming extinct.

During the month of September, Ex-Boyfriend is donating 20% of the proceeds from the sale of Red Menance products to the Red Panda Network, a non-profit with a focus on red panda conservation.

If you want to help out these critters, order a Red Menace tee, tote, hoodie, messenger bag or key chain.  You can also just make a donation directly to the Red Panda Network.

The MD SPCA’s March for the Animals was yesterday. I am pleased to report that I was able to raise $1,310.00 for them this year. A big thanks to my friends, family and Ex-Boyfriend customers who made donations, spread the word about this fundraiser and purchased bottle openers to support the cause. Below are a few pictures of some of the cute critters that came out for the event.

The party was pretty dog-centric, but I guess kitties aren’t known for getting out and about. That said, some critters just love to defy the norm. Thus, I love this story about Kitty. She’s on a 3 year hike with her humans across the Americas. She spends her days chilling under an umbrella attached to her human’s back pack. Adorable! This is one well-traveled kitty.

Every year the MD SPCA has a March for the Animals to help raise funds for its animal rescue efforts. Although they are a Maryland area charity, they lend aid to rescues all around, taking in rescues from neighboring states and sometimes even further afield. If you hang around here often, you know animal charities are a cause near and dear to my heart and that we donate a portion of the profits from this website to those causes.

If you’d like to help us help the beasts, please consider helping us out for this fundraiser and making a donation. Every little bit helps, and as always purchases on this site help us raise funds for the animals.

We’ll be collecting for the March For the Animals fundraiser now through April 17th. Look for some special fundraiser merchandise to go on sale in the next couple of weeks.