Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — SF SPCA

We'll be publishing a 2009 Breadpig, Inc. profit & donation recap shortly, but there's an overdue "Thank you" due for ThinkGeek. For giving breadpig yet another feature in their catalog (I think this makes three times? Awesome!). We couldn't have given away $15,000 in LOLmagnetz profits last year if it weren't for ThinkGeek, proud distributor of LOLmagnetz. We love you, ThinkGeek.

Alas, breadpig, while a full-time hero to the world, has its day-to-day operations handled only on a part-time basis - if that. But the SF/SPCA and EFF alike have benefited from what was a pretty successful year. Drawing from a year with $30,000 in profits, breadpig donated $15,000 to the SF/SPCA with profits derived from the sale of some magnetic LOL speak poetry called LOLmagnetz. With the hope that others will consider replicating the breadpig model, we thought we'd share what we learned. The economy may have been tanking, but despite that (or maybe because of it) people were looking...

It's not secret that breadpig has a soft spot for the SF SPCA, but it's apparently mutual. After naming an orphaned kitten "breadpig," our breadpig loyalists were pleased to see him get adopted before the weekend concluded. Now we're treated with some more background on the adoption story: The woman has been looking for a cat for 3 months and immediately connected to him because he was rubbing against the door and being cute, of course. She was hesitant but went to the adoption desk and learned more about him. The volunteer stated that initially it was the name "...

We just received the bittersweet news. We barely got to know little Breadpig, but he's already been taken home over the weekend. Laura, one of the breadpig legion at the SF SPCA, summarized the our feelings well: I can only hope his new family will allow for the occasional crime fighting in his schedule…. No word yet on whether there will be a Breadpig, Jr.