Meet Mr. Chewy

Is your cupboard bare?  Is it too cold to venture out to forage for food?  Do you have more fun things to do than spend time driving to and from the store for food - like chasing squirrels, diggin' holes, snugglin' in your bed?

If any of these are the case at your house, we've got a solution for YOU!  Meet Mr. Chewy!  Who is Mr. Chewy, you ask? Mr. Chewy is a pet food delivery service that delivers your favorite food and treats right to your door!  Mr. Chewy carries over 70 brands of dog food, cat food, treats and supplies.  We were excited to see that they carry LOTS of our FAVES!  Shipping is F*R*E*E when you order $49 or more.  You can also set up delivery schedule so, even if you have FLAKY FORGETFUL PEEPS, you won't have to eat CHEETOS until your peeps get to the pet store!  Check out Mr. Chewy's brand list to see if he can deliver YOUR favorite food and treats right to your door!  You can order online - even at midnight! in your pajamas!

One of the coolest things about Mr. Chewy is his REFER YOUR FRIENDS DONATION PROGRAM.  Here's how it works.  On your first order, just enter the code ROAD5697 (our referral code) at checkout and YOU will receive 10% off your FIRST order.  PLUS, Mr. Chewy will also DONATE $10 to our favorite charity.  We love BEST FRIENDS! 

All in all, we have to say Mr. Chewy lives up to his motto ~ Delivering Pet Happiness!

The Road Dogs

Disclaimer: We received a discount coupon from Mr. Chewy to use and review his pet food delivery service.  We used the online ordering option and it was easy peasy.  The opinions expressed are our own and we highly recommend Mr. Chewy. We are not employed by or affiliated with Mr. Chewy in any way.

FLAKY PEEPS WINNERS

Peeps are a Flake was a huge success. We would like to thank each of the 25 who joined us in this very fun filled event.

Here are the winners:

3rd. Place...... PAWMETTO TREATS........ WINNER.... NOLA !! (PLEASE email Frankie for how to collect YOUR prize.

2nd. Place.... HOME MADE MILKBONE TREATS & SNACK JAR... WINNERS... RONNII, IZZY, & UJIO..... (We ALREADY have your addy and will mail your Prize Jar)

1st. PLACE.... PitBULLFrog CALENDAR... BUNK...!!!
(Please Email roaddog AT road-dog-tales DOT com or click on the EMAIL US button at the top on  so we can mail your prize!)

Congratulations to the WINNERS... AND.. THANK YOU ALL for the WONDERFUL Laughs. EVERY Post was a JOY to read.


Sincerely,


The Road Dogs..... Sarge..... Frankie Furter

Flaky Peeps ETC

Hey boys and girls!  We have had a BLAST reading all the FLAKY PEEP POSTS this week.  We're kinda sorry it's over!  Hmmm, maybe SOMEONE wants to make it a regular features!  Sarge? Frankie? anyone, anyone (apologies to Ferris Bueller).  Stay tuned as the winners are revealed next week!

Even though our Mom is a total FLAKE, we couldn't seem to come up with anything AMUSING to share that she would actually LET us share.  But she did something this VERY MORNING that just illustrates what an incredible FLAKE she is so we're gonna share it NOW.  Even if it means NO TREATS for a WHOLE DAY! haha

So, here's what went down first thing this morning.  Mom has decided to trade coffee for hot chocolate during the cold winter months.  Yeah, we know, it's more fattening but doesn't make her as jittery, which is good for ALL of us! BOL!  Anyway, she uses the kind in the little packets that you just add to HOT WATER.  Sometimes she boils the water on the stove.  Sometimes she just pops the cup of water in the microwave.  It's really better if she microwaves it 'cause she tends to forget about the boiling water on the stove if she walks away and doesn't set a timer.  ANYWAY, she put the cup in the microwave for like a minute and a half.  *DING* She opens the microwave and gets out the cup and guess WHAT!  There's NO WATER in it!  Really!  She FORGOT to put WATER in the cup! bwahahahahahaha  Now THAT'S FLAKY!


While you're shaking your head over that FLAKINESS, we've got a miscellaneous piece of info to share.  We just read this post on FB this morning and thought it might help somepup somewhere sometime who suffers from seizures.  We need to say first, though, that we KNOW there are probably as many reasons/causes for seizures as there are dogs that have them.  Everypup is very different and sometimes it's hard to pin down a cause and it depends on tons of different things.  Having said that, we still think this post is worth reading in case it helps someone along the way.  It's on our Pit Bull Frogs FB page BUT we're pretty sure you don't have to have a FB account or sign up in any way to look at this link - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pit-Bull-Frogs/311919152164343?ref=tn_tnmn.  If you can't access the link, but are interested in reading the post, let us know and we'll send it to you in an email.  Basically, it was determined that the cause of a little rescue pup's seizures were the Kibbles 'n Bits he was being fed at his new furever home.  His food was changed and he's all better now.

The Road Dogs

FLAKY AS A PILLSBURY BISCUIT

The flaky peeps posts are totally cracking us up!  We can't get enough of 'em!  Even though we're not entering the contest since we're co-hosting with SARGE and FRANKIE, we're gonna share a couple of flaky peep moments with you.  Now these aren't nearly as funny as any of yours, but we're pretty sure we'd have to go without dinner and treats for a couple of days if we told the really good stuff.  But we still think this is some slightly flaky behavior --

When Mom has trouble sleeping, she puts one of her favorite movies in the DVD player and snuggles on the sofa.  Usually in about 10 minutes, she's asleep and dreaming about chasing rabbits and . . . oh, wait, that's what WE dream about.  What the heck do peeps dream about??? Oh, well, nevermind.  Anyway, she sleeps through the WHOLE rest of the movie and then WAKES up when it's over.  So NOW, she's awake again and has to restart the movie to fall asleep AGAIN.  This goes on pretty much all night until the wee hours of the morning.  Then about 3:00 or 4:00, she gets in the bed and sleeps some more.  We just can't understand this routine and we gotta say it kinda interrupts our OWN sleep.  NOT to mention that the sofa is supposed to be all OURS when the peeps go to bed, right? But does she care about that?!  Noooooo . . .  So, we're just wondering ~ Does anybody else's peeps have weird sleeping habits or is it just ours???

Mom, asleep on the sofa . . . bwahahahahahahahaha - she WISHES!

Painting by Roman Zaslonov

A couple of notes:  We're having some super slow-as-molasses innernuts AND some issues with STICKY KEYS.  Sometimes we start typing a comment on your blogs and all of a sudden it looks like this ~

ha's oo unny!  Be you on' ha aain.

So, if we happen to type "Your pees are so funny!" - we really mean "Your PEEPS are so funny!"  It's happened a few times and we think we caught it every time, but in case we didn't, please accept our humble apologies.

Also, we're really concerned about our furiend Pip!  Please send him the Power of the Paw so he gets better.  Love you PIP!

The Road Dogs

THIS is FLAKY???

Seeing as how this is FLAKY PEEP WEEK here in Blogville, we thought we would share a tidbit we read in The BARK.  Just to be perfectly CLEAR, our peeps DO NOT engage in this FLAKY behavior!  And to be quite honest, we were a tad chagrined to learn that SOME peeps do.  We know NONE of YOUR peeps do this either, so we hope you won't be too disappointed and disillusioned to learn of this FLAKY, and let's just say, slightly DECEPTIVE behavior. 

So, are you ready for this ~

"And then of course you get these people on Facebook who not only talk about their pets but as their pets. This sort of thing gives me the chills." quoted from "Drawn to Dogs" by Jeffrey Essmann


We're going to go out on a limb and assume this guy means "blogs" as well as "Facebook."  But, regardless of the forum, can you BELIEVE there are SOME peeps who engage in this FLAKY behavior???!!!  Doesn't that just take the cake??? Mmmmm, cake.  Mmmm, cake with BACON . . .

 OR CUPCAKES with BACON!

Hmm? What? Where were we?  Oh, yeah, FLAKY behavior. . .

We know your peeps don't engage in the above-referenced behavior, BUT maybe that do something ELSE that's kinda FLAKY.  Here's your chance to tell the world.


Post on your own blog from January 1 to midnight Eastern time January 7. Post once or multiple times if your peeps give you that much material! Tell us all about how your peep is a flake.


Comment here on our blog, Frankie's blog, Sarge's blog and the Blogville Community Calendar so that we know you've done your post. Why all four you ask?  A couple of very good reasons: 

(1) so we don't miss anyone! 
(2) there are three cool prizes to be awarded on January 11, 2012.

Keep 'em coming!

The Road Dogs



FLAKY PEEPS AND ONE MORE SNOWMAN FOR FRANKIE

We're coming out of our semi-hibernation (finally!) to co-host MY PEEP IS A FLAKE with our good furiends FRANKIE (and his PUPPY ERNIE) and SARGE!  It goes without saying that OUR PEEPS are TOTAL FLAKES, especially MOM (um, sorry Mom, but it's a fact!).  BUT we can't wait to read about YOUR PEEPS!  We're hoping they're at LEAST as FLAKY as OURS! BOL!

The fun starts tomorrow and lasts ALL WEEK!  We know you're as excited as we are to SHARE with ALL OF BLOGVILLE just how FLAKY your PEEPS are! 

And, now, one more SNOWMAN just for FRANKIE!  Foster dog Lucy REDESIGNED a snowman that was sitting by the TV just minding his own business when all of a sudden . . . CHOMP!!!

The whole time Lucy was chomping away on the SNOWMAN, we heard her mumbling - "This is for Frankie, take that Mr. Snowman, bwahahahahahahaha . . .

Happy New Year!

from The Road Dogs

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to all of you ~

This is what happens in places that don't have real snow!

Hope you all get lots of yummy treats in your stockings!

The Road Dogs

Calendar Giveaway

Hey!  Remember us?  The Road Dogs - slacker bloggers?!  We're popping in to tell you about a giveaway from our friends at Dog Tipper.  If you've been wanting a copy of our Pit Bull Frogs Calendar but were hoping for a giveaway - well this is your lucky day! One lucky winner will receive their very own *F*R*E*E* copy of the 2012 calendar to drool over! Hop on over to Dog Tipper and find out how to enter this fab giveaway before Wednesday, December 21. Already ordered your copy? That's okay, you can WIN another to give away to a furiend! And don't forget to tell all your furiends to enter, too!

Here's a little sneak preview of a portion the January calendar page! You should see the WHOLE page!

Calendar Design by Danielle Greisen

And while you're over at Dog Tipper, check out all their other awesome giveaways! We'll bet you find something for efurrybody on your gift list! Thanks Dog Tipper!!!

We may be slack about blogging and commenting this month, but we LOVE all of you and we'll be back soon.  After the holidays, we'll be co-hosting a super cool and fun event -- MY PEEP IS A FLAKEwith Frankie and Sarge from January 1 - 7.  Click on the link to My Peep is a Flake to find out all the fun details!!!

The Road Dogs

PIT BULL FROGS 2012 CALENDAR SNEAK PREVIEW

We've been MIA in Blogville a lot lately and we've been missing efurrybody so much!  But we're gonna show you ONE of the things that's been keeping us busy lately. 

A SNEAK PREVIEW of one page of the Pit Bull Frogs 2012 Calendar!  How many of your Blogville furiends can you find???

Calendar Design by Danielle Greisen

You can find out more about the calendar and how to get your very own copy to drool over at www.PitBullFrogs.com!

Happy Holidays efurryone!

The Road Dogs

BERT'S PRESSIES

You're not going to believe the awesome pressie Kayla got from BERT for winning his HAT CONTEST!  We could hardly believe it ourselves!  Before we show it to you, though, Kayla wants to say how very honored she is to have won and wants to thank everyone that voted for her.  There were SO MANY wonderful hat pics that she is still kind of speechless that hers was picked and Kayla's not often speechless!  So MANY THANKS!!!

First, there was this awesome Christmas card - isn't that just bee-yoo-ti-ful?  A present in itself, we think!

On to the excitement!!!

Kayla gives it the sniff test.  "Hey, that's ME on the box!"

Kayla just wants to point out Bert's EXCELLENT use of DUCK TAPE!

O-M-D!!!  Look at ALL these TOYS!!! 

So MANY to choose from!

She finally chooses a favorite "baby" to snuggle with

Here's a pic of the back of the box describing all the toys!  See that treasure chest in the middle?  We AGREE - this pressie was just like opening a TREASURE CHEST!

Kayla "hoarding" the babies

She finally decides to share and Cooper picks a racoon rope toy to chew on.  He has a thing for string!  Don't even ask!

And now - GUESS WHO ELSE Kayla's sharing her toys with???

Do you recognize her???  This is Phantom (we call her Lucy). We featured her as one of the adoptable dogs during Mayzie's Rescue Me Home Week!  She has been hanging out at our vet's office while being treated for heartworms.  She's all well now and boy, is she raring to go!!!  She LOVES to play and gets along great with everybody.  Cooper has even taught her to swim!  Now, don't go getting any ideas - we're just giving her a reprieve from kennel at the vet's office until she finds her FUREVER home.  Everyone that meets her falls in love - she has a wonderful temperament and personality.  So, if you know someone who would love to give this cutie pie a home and family, let us know.  She loves to SNUGGLE, too!

It's obvious BERT'S Prize Package was a HOOOOOOGE hit at our house!  You know, we don't think our own pawrents have ever gotten us that many cool toys!  We can't thank BERT (and VICKIE) enough for this amazingly awesome prize package!  You guys are way too generous!!!  THANK YOU BERT!!!

We're gonna have to apologize yet again for our lack of visiting Blogville.  We are missing efurryone so much!  But Mom desperately needs our help with her projects and we're going as fast as our paws can!  Besides the Pit Bull Frogs Calendar (ON SALE NOW!), Mom is hammering and sawing away in her studio like one of Santa's little elves making Christmas pressies that peeps have ordered from her jewelry shop.  So we can't let her get behind with that!  We don't want anybody's stocking to be empty this year, right?!

But, stay tuned in the next day or two for a super special SNEAK PREVIEW of a page from the Pit Bull Frogs Calendar featuring some of our Blogville furiends that you know and love! 

Gotta go pour some caffeine in Mom so she can get to work and hope she remembers to give us breakfast!!!

The Road Dogs

ONE MORE BIRD FOR SARGE!

Okay, one more bird for Sarge.  

Play some SKYNYRD



We hope all of you had a wonderful THANKSGIVING!  We're so sorry we haven't been around to say "HI" lately, but things are heating up with some projects we've got going on and there's only so many hours in the day to WORK after PLAYING and EATING and SLEEPING.  You know what we're saying???  We sure miss reading about all of you lately and hope to get around to see you soon!  Hope you're having FUN!

The Road Dogs

SARGE - You Asked for It!

Okay, Sarge, you asked for it!  We're giving you the BIRD(S)!

Those stump grinders we subcontracted that never finished the job!

STUBBY DOG AUCTION - SPECIAL ARTSY FARTSY EDITION

Mayzie is the one that first introduced us to Stubby Dog and the wonderful work they do.  So, when they asked Mom if she would be interested in donating a piece of her work for their Art Auction, she jumped at the chance.  After all, Stubby Dog had Mayzie's Paw of Approval.  Did you know that Mayzie was one of the first Stubby Dogs?!  So, we're pretty excited to tell you about this amazing auction featuring DOG ART!  You know, the gift giving season is just around the corner (YIKES!) and Stubby Dog has lots of gift options for your dog-loving furiends.  If you've been looking for an artist to paint the perfect portrait of you, or one of your furiends, check out this auction.  Many artists have donated custom pet portraits and photography sessions. 

Acrylic Pet Portrait by Ashley Reid

You'll see lots of Pit Bulls featured because Stubby Dog's focus is on being a positive force for Pitties, but you don't have to be a Pittie to take advantage of the portraits or photography sessions or any of the amazing art for sale.  Just sayin'. 

There are lots of other cool items up for bid, too!  You'll find a gift certificate from Karma Collars and they'll even help you design your own custom collar!




Here's one of the pieces Mom created for the auction.  That's the Stubby Dog logo :)
 





The bidding has started and continues through December 5.  So you still have plenty of time to fetch a great deal!


And speaking of Pitties, we'll be taking a little blogging break so we can help Mom finish up the Pit Bull Frogs calendar soon-to-be-published.  You know, she just can't do two things at once :)  We'll be giving Sarge the "Bird" but will probably be kinda scarce from the blogging scene for a week or so.  We'll try to catch up on all the fun as soon as we can!  And if we don't get by before Thanksgiving - we wish you all a very HAPPY one!

Cheers!

The Road Dogs

AND THE WINNER IS . . .

We had a BLAST during the DUCK TAPE FESTIVAL and hope you did, too!   There were so many cool and super creative entries in both ARTSY FARTSY DUCK TAPE and DUCK TAPE IN ACTION.  We knew we would NEVER be able to pick the best because they were ALL the BEST!  So we left it to chance or fate or . . . ASPEN!  Yep, we decided to let Aspen combine her FAVORITE things - SWIMMING and TENNIS BALLS - to pick a WINNER for the ARTsy FARTsy division.  We took FRANKIE'S idea and tweaked it a little bit. 

First, we wrote numbers on SEVEN tennis balls - one for each entry in order of appearance.  (Please, um, excuse the appearance of some of these tennis balls - we're kinda ROUGH on tennis balls!) 

KEY TO NUMBERS

1 = SARGE

2=OSKAR

3 = BELLA, DAISY & KENDRA

4 = GEORGE THE LAD

5 = SUGAR THE GOLDEN RETRIEVER

6 = WYATT & STANZIE

7 = MAYOR FRANKIE

(he said he was just entering for fun, but we figured he deserved a chance at a GREAT PRIZE, too:)

Okay, are you still with us?  This is a very technical and complicated process so try to keep up!

Next, we threw all the balls in our swimming pond.

Count 'em - SEVEN tennis balls



Okay, now here's where it gets exciting! 

We let ASPEN swim out to fetch a WINNER! 

GOT ONE!

Here she comes to deliver the winning number!

Dun-ta-dum . . .

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And the WINNER is . . . 

NUMBER 5!

Okay, now go back up to the top and check the NUMBER KEY - NUMBER 5 is  . . .

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SUGAR! 

Congrats to SUGAR!  And THANKS to everyone who pawticipated in the DUCK TAPE FESTIVAL and to MAYOR FRANKIE for hosting it with us!  We had so much fun 'cause of all of YOU!  We're going to keep the prizes a secret 'cause we don't want to spoil the surprise for the winners!  Hope that's okay Mayor Frankie 'cause, um, we think we were supposed to TELL what the prizes are.  But don't worry - we will tell after the winners get them!

Now, head on over to FRANKIE'S, if you haven't already, to find out who his PUPPY, ERNIE, chose as the winner of the DUCK TAPE IN ACTION DIVISION.

The Road Dogs