Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul Archives

Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover Soul iPod Touch Giveaway

July 13, 2010 by Momstart 65 Comments

Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul wants to encourage readers to enjoy the summer with their friends, family, and pets as well! The summer is in full force, and enjoying BBQ’s for good food and great company is an essential part of it. When you’re out enjoying the summer time what is your pet doing? In our neighborhood, our next door neighbors have a dog and he’s outside with all of the kids every afternoon. Our dogs are our pets and when we’re out having fun they want to have fun, which is why I have a preference for dogs over cats, but I know there are cat lovers out there. Maybe cats can tell who’s really a dog lover deep down and that’s why I’ve had bad luck with cats my whole life.

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Anyways! Share you summertime pet photo with us to win an iTouch. I spent quite a bit of time looking through my summer time photos of our dogs Chewbacca and Jack and had a hard time finding the perfect one. Pets are such funny creatures, I miss both of my dogs. Here is the photo I found and decided to go with.

Back Story:

It was a hot and summer day, Zoe was only wearing a diaper and a shirt, we didn’t have any air conditioning so we were trying to keep cool. Jack was trying to keep cool too and they were making faces at each other. I’m not kidding. The dog and baby were communicating or having a contest. I think Zoe won or Jack just lost attention with the game.

Caption: Beating Summertime Boredom

Enter to Win:

An iPod Touch

To Enter:

1. To enter, e-mail your photo to casts44story@photos.flickr.com. Put the photo title in the Subject Line and the photo caption in the e-mail body.

2. Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/chickensoupforthepetloverssoul/ and click on your photo to get the custom URL (the URL of the page that has only your photo on it).

3. Copy and paste the URL in the comments section of the blog post to enter the contest!

(It doesn’t take very much time, you’ll spend more time selecting the photo than anything else)

This giveaway ends August 2nd. I will be choosing the winning photo from the links left in the comment section.

I’m a Chicken Soup of the Pet Lover’s Soul blogger and have received products for this post!

Dads and their Pets

June 18, 2010 by Momstart 23 Comments

Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul would like you to share your favorite story of your father/husband and his pet. I think that pet owners are parents as well. I’ll go first.

Picking our First Child

One of the first things my husband and I did after we were married was we picked out a dog. We both have a soft spot for a cute puppy. We looked at dogs for a while. We had to wait until we had a house so most of the time we were just teasing ourselves. Then we found the dog.

There was one Labrador/retriever puppy left. He was all alone in his cage and we pulled him out to play with him. We weren’t expecting to take him home with us, we hadn’t quite closed on our new house yet. However he was adorable. Playing with him was quite a bit of fun, the winning feat was that when we threw a ball for him, he brought it back. Thinking that it was an accident for a puppy we threw it again, no matter how many times we threw that ball he brought it back to us.

Chewbacca came home with us that day. We gave all the information on our new home and the humane society actually verified that we were in fact buying that house. He was our first child, and my husband loved throwing that ball as long as Chewbacca would bring it back.

Enter to Win:

Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul pet food sample

To Enter:

Share a story about dad and his dog (required).

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Giveaway Ends July 5th 2010.

This is a product sponsored post.

Pet Lovers Soul Giveaway

April 28, 2010 by Momstart 329 Comments

April 26th was National Pet Lover’s Day. We love pets in this house, my son loves cats, I love dogs and my daughter loves both. My son even asked for a cat for his birthday. He didn’t get one because he was turning two and wee are not getting any pets until they can help us take care of them, but I sure do miss having a dog. I’m trying to talk my husband into getting us one sooner than later, but we’ll see. Miles’ favorite cat belongs to my sister. He loves to pet her and she tolerates his attention well, but occasionally let’s him know that she is done.

Next we see Zoe trying to catch the kitty cat. Not so sure how that’s going to work out.

Pets are always such a wonderful enjoyment in a multitude of ways. Last August, I was on one of my blogging trips and the hotel had a hotel dog. He was adorable and friendly.

Now here is the lovely Jack. We miss him so much in this house. We had to give him away when he sold our house last year, he was upset that we were leaving him so much and he was destroying the house. But he was the best family dog we could ever ask for, gentle, caring, he loved watching over the kids.

The main point is we’re helping Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul get out is their encouragement to celebrate pets and their importance to their owners, especially kids. How do you love your pet? Why do you love your pet?

Enter To Win:

$20 Petco gift card

To Enter:

Tell us your pet story. Your favorite dog, your best friend, or maybe you have a story about wanting a new pet? Leave your story in the comments

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The contest will run until May 17th 11:59 pm Pacific. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

Chicken Soup of the Soul is partnering with me and other bloggers to host giveaways. In exchange occasionally we will received products for these posts. They are also providing the prizing for this giveaway.