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Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers Day 3: Yappy Hour Vineyards

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Kol's Notes Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers

Welcome to the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers hosted by Kol’s Notes, Heart Like a Dog, My GBGV Life, My Brown Newfies & Terrier Torrent.

Every day between now and December 24th, we’ll be giving away great prizes – plus every time you enter to win a daily prize, you’ll be entered to win our fabulous Grand Prize Package worth more than $800 featuring gifts from each of our 24 fantastic sponsors!

Today’s sponsor is Yappy Hour Vineyards

 

Yappy Hour Vineyards

Yappy Hour Vineyards

 

Yappy Hour Vineyards is a female owned, small business based out of California that uses human grade ingredients to make Doggie wine!

Actually it’s not really wine, cause’ you all know that grapes are a big NO-NO for Fi-do right?  Doggie wine is actually a kibble enhancer, a doggie gravy for those of us who like to indulge our pups a little, or for the discriminating or picky pup who needs a little encouragement to eat those Kibbles.

While we don’t use Yappy Hour wine in our house (we are raw feeders and Sampson and Delilah need no encouragement to eat their meals) I think these make great gifts for friends and family with dogs in their lives. But this site is not just about wine for your puppies my friends.

Oh no.

There are goodies galore  on the the website for the humans in your life too!  Imagine gifting a friend with a bottle of Yappy Hour wine sporting their new dog’s face on the bottle to help welcome their newest family member!  Yes!  You can create your own custom wine label on the Yappy Hour website.  Now that’s a great gift if you ask me.

Yappy Hour also has wine accessories for the wine lover in your house.  Gifts like hand painted glasses, wine stoppers, cocktail napkins and my all-time favorite wine accessory, glass charms.  If you’re like me, you get a few friends together, the wine is flowing and before you know it, glasses are mixed up.  A sweet little charm on the stem of my glass and the germaphobe in me is placated.

Since we don’t have any stores in CT that carry Yappy Hour wines, I was super excited to discover I can order directly from their website!

Have you heard enough?  Are you ready to discover what the Yappy Hour advent prize for today is.  Let me tell you folks, this prize has a retail value of $100!

This gift will come wrapped in holiday cello and topped with Bows and Ribbons

For the Doggie
1-small bottle (375 ml) of Yappy Hour Vineyards Doggie Wine
2-Wine & Grapes Gourmet Hand Decorated Doggie Cookies
1-Wine Colored Plush Toy
 
For the Human
1 – Doggies Charm my Glass – Wine Charms
1 – Sit Stay Drink Cocktail Napkins
1 – Sit Stay Drink Cheese Server
Yappy Hour Vineyards

Check out these cool names!

Like what you see?  You can follow them on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/caninewine

 Have you missed a few days of our Giveaway Advent Calendar? Don’t fret – you can go back and enter any giveaways you have missed! Click here to see the full Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers and come back every day until Dec. 24th to find great new prizes. [Read more…]

Off-Leash Behavior and Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers: Day Two

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Day two of the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers is here.  Don’t worry, I’m going to give you all the information you need for a chance to win another awesome prize, but first I wanted to chat a bit about Delilah’s off-leash behavior in last week’s Nosework Class and some insights I received from our trainer, Arianne.

Free to be me

So you may recall, Delilah loves the nosework game, and she’s very good at it.  Typically I drop the leash when I release her, but seeing as there was only one other team in class last Tuesday I decided to un-clip her leash.  And in that moment, my lovely dog who typically shines in the classroom setting, took off for my trainer’s treat bag.  I called and coaxed and was totally ignored.  So I went to her, clipped her and brought her back to our spot.

Arianne said, “Interesting.”

We decided we will try it again.  And we got the same result.

Arianne said, “Let’s try it with a check cord.”

I revved her up, dropped the cord and off she ran to Arianne’s treats again.

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The next time it was our turn, Arianne suggested I keep hold of the check cord and drop it, IF and ONLY IF Delilah took a step towards the hide.  If Delilah made like she was heading to the treats, I was to step towards the hide, if Delilah responded, I could drop the line.  If Delilah did not, I was not to release her.

This time as she made to head towards Arianne’s treats, I took a step towards the hide and she followed, so I dropped the line.

On our next turn, we removed the check cord and replaced it with what basically amounts to a leash handle.  Just a clip and the handle.  Same deal, if she moves towards the hide I can release her.  This time, she went for the hide.

On our last turn, I removed the leash and kept a hold of her by her collar.  As soon as she indicated she was going for the search, I released her.

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It’s a simple answer.

That was a brief summary of what we did in our class last week.  Are you confused?  Are you wondering just what the connection between Delilah and the un-clipping of the leash is?

It’s the connection.

Simply put, when Delilah is on the leash, she feels like she must engage with me, when I un-clip the leash, in her mind she’s a free dog and no longer “HAS” to engage with me.  Basically the leash keeps us connected and once that connection is lost, Delilah thinks she can do what she wants.

Delilah forgets who her Mama is and how much her Mama likes a challenge.

Arianne and I will continue working on this, and I have hopes that at some point I will indeed be able to trust Delilah off-leash.  Until then, I’m perfectly content to keep her on leash.

Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers

Win custom printed dog themed wrapping paper from Gift Skinz in the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers Giveaway Event It’s time for the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers hosted by Kol’s Notes, Heart Like a Dog, My Brown Newfies, My GBGV Life & Terrier Torrent! 24 giveaways in 24 days, plus a grand prize worth more than $800 – who wants to win? Today’s giveaway is sponsored by artist Gift Skins. You could win custom printed wrapping paper featuring your favourite furball. Click here to check out the Advent Calendar and enter today’s giveaway!

December 1, 2013-The Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers and You Make Me Smile

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Holy Woof, can you believe it’s already December 1st?   I for one am super excited, because December 1st means one thing and that is the 1st day of 24 days of awesome!  Yes, one of the biggest blogging events of my year is here!!

Before I give you all the links I wanted to share my “You Make Me Smile” photo.

Delilah - Lolly Delilah, when you insist on being a lap dog, even with company, you make me smile.

I took this photo yesterday morning as my sister and I were sitting having coffee.  Delilah frequently climbs up on Hubby’s lap on the couch, but I was quite surprised (as was my sister) when she made herself at home on my sister’s lap.

She is a silly, lovable lab. And she makes me smile.  Your turn, what do your dogs do that make you smile?

So now without further ado, here is all the information you’ll need to enter today’s drawing.

Win a whimsical, modern custom art piece of your pet from AJ Emm in the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers Giveaway Event It’s time for the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers hosted by Kol’s Notes, Heart Like a Dog, My Brown Newfies, My GBGV Life & Terrier Torrent! 24 giveaways in 24 days, plus a grand prize worth more than $800 – who wants to win? Today’s giveaway is sponsored by artist AJ Emm. You could win a whimsical modern custom art piece of your pet. Click here to check out the Advent Calendar and enter today’s giveaway!

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