Fido's Freebie Friday Readies for #Gamma2Fresh

by Carrie Boyko, CEB

I don't think I'll have time to catch my breath. Huff! Puff! This past Sunday evening's #EBTweets was an amazing experience with tons of partiers joining in to Tweet the night away with awesome prizes. On its heels is #Gamma2Fresh, our June 10 Twitter Party that will make sure you learn all you need to know about keeping your pet's food fresh. Be sure to RSVP here for this short and sweet party with 15 airtight, patented pet food storage containers up for grabs.

Product Review Tip #12
When chatting with PR reps, be sure to ask about other product lines they represent. Often you'll find they may have more than one product that appeals to you.


For Bloggers:
This past week's most popular 3 categories were  (1) Gift Card, (2) dog treats, storage  and holistic remedies, and (3) Twitter Party prizes and pet food. We appreciate your participation and look forward to seeing you again each and every week.

Our Ridiculously Easy Rules: 
Pet blogs from around the Internet may link up all their active giveaways on this post each week. We welcome all your pet product giveaway events here. The rules are simple:

• PLEASE add an end date to your listing. You have up to 45 characters to describe your prize and include an expiration date.
• Fido's Freebie Friday Blog Hop is open to posts with prizes for pet products or services, including pet-related or pet-themed items for owners. Link up using your specific post url to make it easier to find.
• Please include our badge or a link to this post in your giveaway write up, and ask your readers to tell us who sent them. 

You'll find assistance at our HELP PAGE, where there is a ton of other useful information for bloggers doing giveaways and reviews. Your hosts are All Things Dog Blog and Doggies and Stuff. Welcome and happy shopping!

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.

Emotional Support for Pets: Bonatical Flower Essences Giveaway

by Carrie Boyko, CEB

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Oliver Waits Permission
 to Eat his Mellowed Out Treat

Animal care professionals say the 10 most common canine behavioral problems are barking, chewing, digging, separation anxiety, inappropriate elimination, begging, chasing, jumping, biting, and aggression.  Many of these behaviors aren’t just superficial naughtiness, but trace their origins to deeper-rooted causes, including fear, defensiveness, protection of property, dominance assertion, anxiety, curiosity, boredom, and/or excess energy. 

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Mellow Out Goes Down
Easily on a Treat

Flower essences can offer relief to dogs by helping to balance and harmonize emotional and psychological states.  The liquid plant preparations are made by infusing fresh flower blossoms under very specific conditions. They are easy to give and safe for dogs, horses, cats, birds and other small animals, too. Arenus makes 14 different, issue-specific blends of Botanical Animal® Flower Essences, each specifically formulated to deal with a different problem behavior, including these:   

·        Mellow Out ® - to support pets with agitation, anxiety, or nervousness, such as before thunderstorms and fireworks displays

·        In Training^TM  - to improve focus and patience, to help dogs in training

·        Life’s Changes^TM - when moving into a new home or after the loss of a housemate

·        Independence^TM - to assist with separation anxiety, when pet must be left alone

·        Clear Thinking^TM - to help easily distracted animals stay focused on task at hand

·        Angel of Mercy^® - for animals who have been rescued from neglect and abuse


This giveaway will focus on Mellow Out, which we reviewed yesterday. You can enter through Wednesday, June 13 to win a bottle for your pet. If the Rafflecopter entry form below is not in view immediately, simply click on the post title to refresh and it will appear at the bottom. Good luck to you all.


If you'd prefer to take the 'sure thing' route, feel free to order your Mellow Out from their website.

The product for this giveaway is being provided by Arenus as a promotional courtesy. I have not been compensated to review this product or do the giveaway. The comments posted here are my own findings. There is no purchase necessary to enter and the giveaway is available to all North American addresses.

Event Barkers Brings You a Castor and Pollux Giveaway!

by Carrie Boyko, CEB

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Get it While It's Here....

Event Barkers has a few Castor and Pollux coupons left to offer you after our rocking #EBTweets Twitter Party. Entering is super easy and this is a quickie, so don't waste any time getting to it:


The coupons in this giveaway were offered as a promotional opportunity by Castor and Pollux Pet. We have not been compensated to offer this giveaway.

Help Fido Mellow Out with Arenus

by Carrie Boyko, CEB

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1 Little Bottle=2 Mellow Dogs

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Readers tell me frequently about their dog's fear of thunder and fireworks. Others say car rides or Vet visits bring on fearful symptoms. Whatever your pup's anxiety source is, Arenus botanicals has a solution.  I had the opportunity to test out their Mellow Out flower essences on Oliver and Tanner, and I'd like to share some of what I learned.

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Apply Liquid to Treat

I have to confess that Tanner's only fear is a sudden loud noise--really sudden and really loud! Other than that, he's pretty much fearless. Thankfully. Oliver, like Tanner, has only one anxiety source, thunder and fireworks. Thunderstorm season has begun here in Central Florida and I've been using Mellow Out to soothe Oliver's tension. It's not horrible, mind you, but he does show signs of fear by mild shaking and a desire to remain near me. 

I feel like the Pied Piper when a storm is brewing, with Oliver following me everywhere I go. Enter Mellow Out. When I looked inside this tiny dropper bottle of liquid my first thought was, "Will Oliver willingly allow me to squirt this stuff into his mouth?" It doesn't smell bad to me--not much scent at all--but who knows what he will think.


Just the look of the dropper apparently had him wondering, so I got sneaky with him. I took a yummy baked treat and dropped the solution onto the treat. It soaked into the cookie quickly and I offered it to Oliver. Viola! He ate it like it was his last meal. Yay!


After using the Mellow Out in this way a few times, I've learned that it works best to sooth his mild anxiety when I give him it to him at the first sign of an impending storm. I don't wait till the rain starts or the winds kick up, and especially not until the noisy thunder begins. He gets his Mellow Out-laced treat before things outside get scary and he begins to quiver.


Now that I've discovered this additional treatment for anxiety, I've added it to my arsenal--soothing music combined with Mellow Out actually make for a great team to calm my canine household. 


Finally, I'd like to add one last little tidbit that is very telling. While Tanner is never responsive to thunderstorms, we did have one weather radio report of a sudden and very nasty storm coming recently. Just the siren on that radio is enough to get Oliver worked up. I decided to offer Tanner a treat with his own dose of Mellow Out and sure enough, he snoozed through that storm like a drunken sailor--clueless. It was noisy and long, enough so that Oliver chose to camp out on my lap. But the good news is he wasn't shivering this time. He had his Mellow Out, and I could see it was working.

Join me tomorrow for the opening of a Mellow Out giveaway. We'll be exploring Arenus's website, Facebook page and having some Tweeting fun. Feel free to go ahead and follow their social media sites today, so you'll be ready to hop right in tomorrow. Hope to see you here.


The product for the giveaway mentioned above is being provided by Arenus as a promotional courtesy. I have not been compensated to review this product or do the giveaway. The comments posted here are my own findings. There is no purchase necessary to enter and the giveaway is available to all North American addresses.

Wordless Wednesday: Exhausted Twitter Pawty Pup

by Carrie Boyko, CEB

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Oliver is All Tweeted Out!