Kyjen Puzzle Testing

Being a Kyjen toy tester is a great gig. As my friend Mango would say, my mom person wanted to stimulate my mentals so she chose the Paw Hide Dog Toy Puzzle.We tried it one time doing it like the dog on the packge, but my mouth isn't quite big enough to get those yellow puzzle pieces out.  Morgan from Kyjen suggested we tie cloth strips through the holes in the pieces and we tried again.Here's Oskar playing with the puzzle.And a little...

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One Day, 10,000 Bowls Follow-Up

The Proctor & Gamble Pet Care 4th annual shelter makeover & One Day, 10,000 Bowls drive were both a huge success again this year.  Thanks to people like you over 10,000 bowls of Iams, Innova & Eukanuba food is being donated to the Humane Society of Greater Dayton.We'd like to thank all PBU readers who helped get the job done & for more pics of the shelter makeover you can go to these albums: EukanubaIamsInnovaGreat job Proctor...

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True Silver Blanket Review & #Giveaway

Oskar showing off his Sleep Number True Silver BlanketWhen we were contacted by Sleep Number to review one of their True Silver Natural Allergy Defense Blankets we were thrilled.  Oskar is a dog who is fairly hypo-allergenic, but the two shedding, dander dropping cats who share our bed are a pain!Here's just some of the benefits of the Sleep Number® True Silver™ Blanket:Pure silver fibers are woven into the blanket, which offer anti-microbial,...

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Welcoming Your Adopted Dog Into His New Home - Guest Post

With the country's animal population exploding out of control, adopting a dog is a smart move, and it's usually a cheaper option to boot. There are millions of shelter dogs in the U.S. — and once you’ve found your next lifetime companion, it takes a bit of work to make sure he is able to acclimate to his new home. Dogs – especially shelter dogs that have been exposed to a variety of people - can be timid, and it's necessary to ease them into their...

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Jowls of Fury - Weekly Featured Blogger

This week we're talking to Vic from Jowls of Fury about his group a cats & hounds.I'm a wildlife biologist, my wife is an echocardiographer, and we live in Missouri with our 3 basset hounds and 5(!) cats. The blog has very little to do with the humans and is written solely by the animals - we just do the typing. The basset hounds and the cats each do some blogging and we have more-or-less weekly blog specials (Famous Basset Hound Friday, Weird...

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Urgent Help Needed For Cobbie

I need your help friends. I really don’t know whether to be angry or sad. Why? Let me introduce you to Cobbie. Cobbie is in Greenville, SC.Isn’t she the cutest little thing? She might be around 8 weeks old. She needs a home. Does she look less adoptable to you? Nope, me neither. You see, Cobbie is FIV+ and that’s where I get a bit angry, and a bit sad too. There is such an unwarranted stigma associated with FIV and that’s so unfortunate...

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One Day. 10,000 Bowls. How You Can Help

My friends over at Proctor & Gamble Pet Care are going all out today because it's their 4th Annual Paws for a Cause Shelter Makeover, benefiting The Humane Society of Greater Dayton. While over 175 P&G Pet Care employees are painting, landscaping, adding agility equipment for the Community Dog Park, adding climbing areas & perches for cats and even adding cabinets for “pocket pets”, you can help by clicking on tons of fun links to donate...

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Kitcaboodles ~ New Blogger Alert

This week we're glad to introduce you to Kitcaboodles.  Laura, Sookie & Mr. Darcy are a lot of fun.In February 2010 for our first anniversary my husband and I joined the exclusive club of owning a ragdoll cat... little did we know what we were letting ourselves in for! SookieDiscovering enough funny quirks, odd behaviour and 'aw' moments to write a book, I armed myself with a camera and my trusty mobile video phone and began to document...

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Kitties Wanted, Maties!

Since it's Meow Like A Pirate Day, Moe & Chloe wanted to participate on Pet Blogs United.MoeChloeOkay, maybe they weren't so thrilled with the pirate hats, but they wanted me to get the word out about kitty involvement on PBU.  We have lots of great kitty friends & we would like to see more of them featured on our blog.  The cat blog-o-sphere is so awesome, but we seem to get mostly canine feature submissions for our Weekly...

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Meet Finn Howard - Weekly Featured Blogger

This week we're happy to introduce you to Finn Howard and her family:We're so excited to be featured on PBU! My husband and I stopped by a kennel around Christmas last year, "just to look" at some of the pups that they had there. We played with a few, and when they put Finn down in front of me, I was sold. She was adorable. I had never had a pet before; my husband grew up with dogs, and he didn't really have to convince me that this would be...

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The Helen Woodward Animal Center or #HWAC

Thursday morning at BlogPaws I was able to meet with some old friends and make a new one.  It would be great if I had a picture, but being the ever vigilant blogger that I am, I didn't pull out my camera once.I had breakfast with Joanne from The Tiniest Tiger, Rachel & Brad of Preston Speaks, Bev also known as @PetCareBev of My Flat Pet, Tina from Eukanuba and a new friend, Barbara of Mutt Mania.Then someone tipped us off the the Mike...

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Meow Like A Pirate Day - Guest Post By Brian

Sometimes I forget some things, like where I left my favorite mousie, or what I was going to do next after running down the hall full speed to do it. Sometimes I forget how close I am to the edge of my throne and then I roll off and hurt my butt. But right now I’m trying to remember something really impawtant, like what I did with my pirate hat. I know that thing is around here somewhere, but durn if I can find it. I’ve looked under the bed,...

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Anyone Tweeting Out There?

My name is Pam & I am not a Twitterer.Being behind the times as much as I am, I'm just now starting to learn more about Twitter & the ways Twitter can help deliver and send out great information.If I had thumbs I'm sure I could do it!But for me, the Twitterverse is a bigger, more unknown version of the blogosphere!  Baby steps, that's what I need to do, take baby steps, lol.  Is there anyone reading this that feels like...

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Living, Laughing & Loving in Loftinland - Featured Blogger

living, laughing, and loving in loftinland – consists of: 4 male dogs and 2 adults….the dogs and their “jiji” do the blogging….often switching over in a post without saying they are…..it’s kinda like butting in, or interrupting! Nano – is the leader of the pack (or we let him think so) Jiji – is really the leader of the pack (at least we make her think so) Then there are “us” the boys:  RussWe’ll start with the oldest Russ – often referred to as...

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