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• Fido's Freebie Friday Enjoying Indian Summer in Florida
• Winter is Furlicious with Freezy Pups! Frozen Dog Treat Review and Giveaway
• Dogs on a Scale: Dieting with My Dog Giveaway

Fido's Freebie Friday Enjoying Indian Summer in Florida Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:00 PM PDT by Carrie Boyko, CEB While October and November are breathtakingly gorgeous in Florida, I sometimes have to pinch myself and remember that much of the country is already shivering. Here we are still doing photo shoots with Pupsicles and fetch toys! No complaints from me after the long hot summer we had to endure. Are you popping in to see what new goodies can be entered at blogs around the pet world? This is the place! The holidays will be kicking in soon and pet bloggers are cleaning out their coffers. I'm expecting mad closet cleaning in the next few weeks and you get the benefit. Be sure to check in here over the weekend to catch all the linkups that may have occurred through midnight on Friday. Dear Blogger Buddies: Thanks for joining in this shopping mall of pet giveaways, contests and freebies. Feel free to link up as many events or giveaways as you have going on currently. The more the merrier! Keep in mind that we try to make this easy. Here's our help page material, and following are our 2 rules for participation. Hope to see you again next week and often! Fido's Freebie Friday Help Page Facebook Contest Guidelines FTC Rules and resources Photography tips and ideas Wordpress.com code for this week's event  Rules: Fido's Freebie Friday Blog Hop is open to posts about giveaways, contests, drawings, prizes, and freebies for pet products or services only, including pet-related or pet-themed items for owners. Feel free to link up multiple items if you have more than one giveaway going on. Please post the badge above (the code is in the sidebar and also on the HELP PAGE) or a link to this post in your Fido's Freebie Friday blog post and invite your readers to tell us you sent them. Your hosts are All Things Dog Blog and Doggies and Stuff. You may also find some of these giveaways at other sites such as: Individual rules of entry and guidelines for winning may apply to each listing. All Things Dog Blog and Doggies and Stuff take no responsibility for the legality of the rules governing the listings on other sites and giveaways that are posted here. We simply provide this forum as a gathering place for pet product giveaways to be offered. Please consult All Things Dog Blog's Giveaway and Contest Rules for more detail.

Winter is Furlicious with Freezy Pups! Frozen Dog Treat Review and Giveaway Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:15 PM PDT by Carrie Boyko, CEB © Carrie Boyko Cool Treats and Moist Eats As I told the folks at Freezy Pups recently, we're the go to blog for cooler weather reviews of frozen dog treats. Florida Winters are remarkably mild and make for year round enjoyment of water activities like Tanner's daily swims and even frozen treats. Today we also discovered a new game: Bobbing for Freezy Pups.  Tanner quickly retrieved and devoured 6 Freezy Pups for our SafeMade Pet silicone, paw-shaped bowl.  You've got to try this with your water-loving dog. It is a new way to experience water fun. © Carrie Boyko Tanner was Fast at Retrieving the Freezy Pups Ready? My biggest question in this review was " How can a treat made with water actually taste good?" Much to my surprise the answer was clear. Freezy Pups uses USDA Organic ingredients to create and then dehydrate the treats. Our job is simply to re-hydrate them with water, followed by freezing for a unique, cooling snack. Of course Freezy Pups don't have to be served frozen. The melted consistency is surprisingly creamy and rich, making a wonderful topping for a bowl of dry kibble. Special occasions may call for a few Freezy Pups melted atop our Organix kibble--maybe Thanksgiving! © Carrie Boyko It's That Easy! Tanner and Oliver enjoyed, even eagerly pursued this photo shoot, waiting patiently for the reward they knew was coming. I enjoyed watching them lick and savor the flavor of their new-found favorite frozen treats. This was much faster than our usual pupsicle recipe that requires mashing and blending up foods to then pour into an ice cube tray. Preparation of Pupsicles is one simple step: Mix with water. Once you've poured the mixture into the ice cube tray and frozen it, you're in business with a batch of yummy, delicious and nutritious treats for your fidos. I was first introduced to Freezy Pups earlier this year when I ventured to Global Pet Expo, . Their booth was swamped with interested shopkeepers and nosy curious bloggers like me. After their product was awarded the coveted 2011 Best in Show, I was assured a very slow opportunity to review this product. Thank goodness I finally got my samples. © Carrie Boyko Oliver Enjoys his Frozen Snack As tough as it was to make contact with the very busy Freezy Pups gang, I couldn't give up. Organic is what we do here at All Things Dog Blog, so this was not a product I could miss out on. I became a woman possessed. Fortunately I was on their waiting list for product--a very long one.  Now that Tanner and Oliver have approved, my job is not done. I plan to try stuffing Kongs with these frozen yummies next. Doesn't that sound like a wonderful afternoon treat? And the flavors; they're home runs! Imagine White Cheddar Cheese, Chicken Soup, Juicy Apple, and Sweet Potato 'n Maple. © Carrie Boyko Which Flavor to Start With? So how do YOU get your Freezy Pups? Start at their store locator here, and of course you can order from their website. For more information, you may want to follow them on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with updates on retail locations. Before I fill you in on the giveaway I have to share one quote from the Freezy Pups' site: Head of the Pack is proud to offer healthy and environmentally friendly dog treats. We use only organic ingredients. Our Freezy Pups Tray is reusable and made from long lasting, durable recyclable material. We use packaging that has been certified from the Forest Stewardship Council to have been produced from socially and environmentally responsible forestry.  Organic farming is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. Organic products are grown without pesticides, herbicides, fumigants, or artificial fertilizers. In other words, no yucky stuff added. This means organic farming helps protect our water, air, land and food supply from toxic chemicals and other pollutants.  Make your dog and the earth happy. Go Green! Bravo! Let's give away one complete assortment of their products. One winner will get a supply of packages to make 24 trays of treats valued at $56: This amounts to a Freezy Pups freezing tray with sample paks included, and a full box of each of their four flavors. WOW! The Rafflecopter entry form should appear below. If you don't see it immediately, simply click on the post title to refresh and will will magically reappear right here: No purchase is necessary to win. Samples of Freezy Pups and a freezing tray have been provided to me for review. I was not paid to give an opinion on this product but my opinion is included above. These are my own thoughts. This giveaway is available only to U.S. residents. By entering the Rafflecopter entry mechanism you agree to the terms of our Giveaway and Contest Rules.

Dogs on a Scale: Dieting with My Dog Giveaway Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:01 PM PDT by Peggy Frezon, guest blogger © Peggy Frezon Kelly and Peggy Share the Scale and the Success © Carrie Boyko Hmmm....Do You Have a Bigger Size? You've seen the movie, Snakes on a Plane? Well, here is something just as scary: Dogs on a Scale! These dogs will do anything to avoid getting weighed. And who could blame them? I get a bit frightened at the numbers I see when I step onto a scale. And, it turned out, my dog Kelly's vet wasn't happy with her weigh-in either. So we teamed up, changed our lifestyle, and got fit together. © Carrie Boyko No Diet Please! My new book, Dieting with my Dog shares our journey as we learn to love carrots instead of cookies, working out instead of vegging-out. We fit in daily walks, bravely facing off loose, aggressive dogs in the neighborhood. Although it wasn't easy, we changed our diets, got off our butts and got active. I lost 41 lbs and Kelly lost 6 lbs. And best of all, we did it together. Tanner and Oliver had to take a stab at this scale business after watching the video below.  Be sure to watch it; what fun! *Studies conducted by the National Association for Pet Obesity Awareness found that more than half the pets in the U.S. are obese or overweight. That was fun, huh? Well, now it's time to get down to business. Shall we give away a couple of copies of Dieting with My Dog? If you're not a winner here, you can order yours from Amazon. You can enter using the Rafflecopter form below. If you don't see the form, just click on the post title to refresh and it will appear here:

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