Style My Pooch Prizes :)

Yesterday we posted about winning the Style My Pooch competition and today our prizes arrived... Super speedy delivery eh! :) We're thrilled with all 5 pieces, they're so adorable!

Everything came wrapped up in some lovely gold tissue paper...

 Buffys dress!

I fell in love with this the moment I saw it on SMP's website and it seems I'm not the only one who adores it, Buffy fell in love the moment I unwrapped it! It's stunning in person, the fur trim is wonderfully soft, the body sits so beautifully and the little ruffled skirt part falls perfectly. So in love with this!

 Raffertys cow hoodie!

 This is almost an inside joke, as we call Rafferty 'Gibby Cow' sometimes (a reference to her pregnancy), so we just had to have this for her! Although Raff isn't one for clothes, this hoodie is so soft and cosy even she couldn't complain. You can't see too well here but there are little silver sparkles in the furry trim on the hood - precious!

The 3 adorable t shirts!

(1. Monroe. 2. Lola. 3. Lily.)

Ahh I love these even more in person than thought I would! The blue t shirt is still my favourite and looks amazing with Monroe's colouring. The red-ish t shirt is a beautiful colour, it's not quite red, not quite shocking pink and Lola works it ;) The lime green is almost neon and has a fab retro/80's/pop art party vibe, it looks so cute on Lily!

Also in the package were 3 cards for SMP...

2 of which had a lovely Chihuahua on! How appropriate?! ;)

Isn't everything super cute!?!

We absolutely adore every single piece and the girls look beautiful in their new clothes, so we want to say an absolutely massive 'thank you!' to Nicola, Tiny and everyone else at Style My Pooch :) 

Sadly the light wasn't on our side this afternoon, but over the next few days we'll be sure to get some pictures up of the girls modelling everything! In the meantime if you see something here you like don't hesitate to order, the 20% discount we mentioned in our last post expires January 10th and we'd hate you to miss out!

Love and licks as ever,

Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

Style My Pooch contact info:

Website - www.stylemypooch.co.uk

Facebook - StyleMyPooch / Tiny

Twitter - @StyleMyPoochUK

Blog - http://stylemypooch.co.uk/category/blog/

Style OUR Pooch(es)!

As you may know we're on twitter (@riochanelhilton) and we follow a few great doggy sites/brands, one being @stylemypoochuk! Tiny (the adorable Yorkie and SMP model) and the Style My Pooch team decided to run a fabulous Christmas competition, with the grand prize being £100 worth of their lovely clothes!

We decided to enter and thank our lucky stars we did, because we won!
(Which caused me to dance around my kitchen a little)...

We chose 5 items, a pink gingham dress for Buffy, a black and white cow print hoodie for Rafferty and 3 fabulously cute t shirts (1,2,3) to go between Monroe, Lily and Lola! (I think t shirt 2 is my favourite of the 3). We're all so excited for everything to arrive, I know the girls will love their super special Christmas presents, Buffy especially will enjoy her new 'princess dress' :)

We want to say an extra big 'thank you' to everyone at Style My Pooch and we advise anyone looking for cute clothes to check out their website, blog, twitter account or facebook page!

We'd suggest you to get your orders in quickly too, because Style My Pooch are certainly in the festive spirit, as we're not the only ones getting an extra pressie or 2... To say thank you to everyone who entered the competition they've very kindly arranged a 20% discount on all orders, plus free shipping! Just enter 'STYLISHCHRISTMAS' at the checkout to get your discount ;)
 
Love and licks as ever,
(With extra licks to Tiny!)
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

P.S We'll be back soon, not least to show the girls modelling their beautiful new SMP clothes, so be sure to keep an eye out for our 'Style My Pooch Prizes' picture post!

Pet of the Month (November) - Animology Competition!

A while ago we reviewed the wonderful Animology line and ever since we've been keeping an eye on their Facebook page and Twitter. A few weeks ago they came up with a fun new competition on FB - 'Pet of the Month'. We decided to test the waters and enter one of our favourite pictures of Lola (incidentally it was her 1st bath and we were using Puppy Love!).

We're delighted to say Lola was chosen as a winner and we got some fabulous prizes from the lovely people at Animology. (Thanks guys!)

The next competition (POTM December) has already started so be sure to head over to their FB page now and upload your pets picture to be in with your chance of winning! Good luck if you do decide to enter :)

We'll be back soon, we have quite a few posts lined up so be sure to check back with us!

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

Pup Idol 2011/Puppy Awareness Week (PAW) - Part 6

This is our penultimate PAW post! I think I'll miss these when we're done with them :( Today though we wanted to tell you about Pup Idol and how you can enter :)

Pup Idol is a competition to the doggy stars. Think your pup is adorable? Think they have a certain je ne sais quoi? Then they could be the first ever Pup Idol! 

If you think your pup has what it takes to be a Pup Idol, scoot on over and enter here by uploading your adorable puppy pictures. You'll be in with a chance to win family tickets to Discover Dogs and Crufts 2012! Discover Dogs will be held at Earls Court 1 in London, between the12th - 13th November and Crufts will be at The NEC, Birmingham, between the 8th - 11th March 2012.

The only rule when entering Pup Idol is that the dog in the picture needs to be a puppy! Other than that snap away and get entering :)

You can post as many pictures as you like and your puppy can be a perfect pedigree or a cute as a button crossbreed, every pup is welcome!
Entries close on the 23rd September and judging will take place on the 30th September.

Good luck if you enter and we hope you'll come back tomorrow for our final word on Puppy Awareness Week!

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

P.S We'll remind you about entry details in a few days when we share our entry :)

Scruffts!

Scruffts is a competition for our nations cute crossbreeds and offers a fun day out for the whole family. This is Scruffts 11th year and The Kennel Club have been running this years shows countrywide since late February. The last show will be held mid October. There's still plenty of time/shows left to get your dog a place at the final, so to find a show near you, check out the shows page here. This years heat winners will go on to the Grand Final which will be held at Discover Dogs 2011, in November.

Pretty much any dog can enter, as long as they're aged 6 months - 12 years and of course, a Scrufft-y crossbreed! Rosettes are awarded to the dogs who get 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each local heat and the 1st place rosette winner from each heat goes on to Discover Dogs for the Grand Final!

Entry is simple, you just turn up to the show nearest to you and be ready to wow. Entry is only £1 and all the money goes to a great cause - The KC Charitable Trust!

The KC Charitable Trust are working hard to 'make a difference for dogs' by funding research into canine diseases, helping welfare organisations and promoting better care and understanding of all our 4 legged friends, pedigree or cross.

So with that in mind and the possibility of seeing your dog with a winners rosette, there's every reason to go ahead to one of the local heats and let your dog have its day!

There are 5 heats left - Sussex, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Nottinghamshire. To find out where to go and when, check out the information here. We hope you'll turn up to support the KC's Trust and let your dog strut its stuff :)

Each local heat has 4 classes for entry - 

• Most Handsome Crossbreed Dog 6 months - 7 years
• Prettiest Crossbreed Bitch 6 months - 7 years
• Child's Best Friend* 6 months - 12 years
• Golden Oldie Crossbreed 8 years or over **

*(Handled by a young person between 6 and 16 years of age).
** Dogs entered at the organiser's discretion.

Scruffts is a fun competition, for the owners and the dogs entering, so the judges will be looking for happy, healthy dogs, with sound temperaments. Does your dog fit the bill? Try out and let us know!

As a bonus each dog that enters any Scruffts heat will get a free bag of Wellbeloved treats - as they kindly sponsor Scruffts :)

We hope you go along, whether you enter or you just go to have a fabulous doggy themed day out with your human family members!

Best of luck to everyone going!

Love & licks,

Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo 

Dog Photographer of the Year 2011 - Entries.

4 long weeks ago we posted about the KC's 2011 'Dog Photographer of the Year' competition. Well seeing as the competition is officially closed to entries as of today, we thought we'd share our entries. We entered 3 of the 5 categories - Dog Portrait, Dogs at Play and Man's Best Friend.

We entered this picture of Rafferty in 'Dog Portrait'.
Doesn't she look lovely?

We decided on this baby picture of Monroe for 'Dogs at Play'.

And we chose this shot of Lola on my slippers for 'Man's Best Friend' :)

It was so tough choosing which pictures to enter! We have literally hundreds of pictures of the girls and we love them all ♥ The toughest choice was picking our 'Dog Portrait' entry, we had to rope in a friend to help us with the final 2!

Now for the judging to begin! We wish everyone who entered the very best of luck and to anyone who hasn't already entered hurry up, it's for such a good cause and today is the final day! To slip in a late entry or to find out more, click here.

We'll no doubt do a post once the winners/runners up are announced, so we can share loads of fabulous pictures with you :) The winners will be announced via the KC website and the pictures posted on Flickr. The Grand Prize winner will get their award at this years Discover Dogs. Judging will take place 14th September and winners/runners up will be announced 15th/16th September, when we should be about to post about it, but of course we'll be back long before all that happens ;)

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

Updates, reviews, news and opinions? (Christmas Competition!)

We'll start with the updates shall we? :)

So all the girls (and Alfie) are doing well, Lily's eyes are fully open today, whilst poor Alfie only has one open! He looks like he's winking and we keep calling him a pirate xD We'll post pictures of them tomorrow when we have decent light to work with, but we dare say his second eye will be open by then :(

Other than that, (edging towards reviews now) we had a lot of packages come today from hyperdrug and bonniedog :)
From hyperdrug we had 2 boring items, some Royal Canin puppy milk and Sherleys puppy wormer, but we also had a fleecey Kong "Snugga Wubba", a Kong toy that I've now forgotten the name of >.<, a Kong puppy teething bone and a Jolly Teaser Ball, plus some Coachies puppy training treats xD
From bonniedogs we had an EzyDog harness and lead in chocolate  brown (for Monroe). 
All in all very pleased, the Kong Snugga Wubba went down a storm, as did the Coachies and the EzyDog harness and lead are proving a sound investment :) (We're ordering one for the rest of the girls too, but decided to order only one to begin with to try the size out on them all :) Sadly even the smallest size, adjusted as much as possible is still too big for teeny tiny Rafferty, so we'll have it altered once we receive it!)

Now the news and opinions part of this post are kinda rolled into one!
We here at "AHWTH" have been thinking about running a "Christmas Competition" and want to hear your opinions! We'll pop a poll below this, along with some idea of the kind of prizes and rules we'd have for the competition, as well as any restrictions or special requests :) Feel free to vote or email me with suggestions!

polls & surveys

So, seeing as we loved them so much, we thought as prizes we'd offer the following*;
1st place = 1 EzyDog Harness and EzyDog Vario2 Training Lead, in a size** and colour of your choice, currently retailing at a total of £28.98.
2nd place = A Kong "Snugga Wubba" in blue or pink and a 300g jar of Coachies (puppy or adult), which are currently £7.94 for both.
3rd place = A goodie bag of sweets and treats containing a 75g bag of Coachies, a 50g bag of Fish4Dogs Super Stars Training Treats and a 325g bag of Burns Keltie Treats, altogether retailing at the bargain price of £3.18!
*Plus a few bits we've yet to try actually!
**Price does vary according to size, we calculated with the price of the X Small.

How to enter!
Step 1 = Subscribe ;)
Step 2 = Send us a picture of your beloved furbaby! (And you, if you so desire :P)
Step 3 = Sit back with your fingers crossed ^^

Please send your pictures to; competitions.ahwth@hotmail.co.uk

We will take entries from our start date (which we will post soon, if we decide to definitely go ahead) and run it for a month, after which we'll take a week out for judging, before letting you know our winners via email*** and a blog post and ordering all the prizes :)
***For the winners.
All the winners will be chosen by me and Jonny and any disagreement between us will go to a vote via a poll.
All breeds are welcome, although species wise we do ask you stick to dogs, age also isn't a problem!
Just send us your cutest picture and we'll do the rest.
Winner pictures will be posted in a special entry, along with a few details about your pet and a quote from the winning owner, so please keep this in mind when you enter!
We may also ask for a follow up picture with your pet and it's prize, so again, please remember this :)
We will not post your pictures or details anywhere else, scouts honour xD
At this time, the competition is restricted to the UK, in the future however, if all goes well, we intend to run them worldwide!

Let us know what you think!!!

Love and licks as always,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Alfie!
xo