The Winners Are. . .

By katie, on July 5th, 2011%

The time has come for the first ever Lessons From 4 Legs giveaway to come to a close. The giveaway marks the six month mark of our year long Walking Challeng. I’m happy to announce a new Walking Challenge total of 1,657 miles!

That is truly an amazing collective achievement and we’ve also had many individual accomplishments over the last six months.

To celebrate all of our success I’m happy to announce the winners of the Halfway Giveaway.

Congratulations to Elizabeth, Cocoa and Oreo, the winners of the first drawing.

Together they’ve walked 88 miles since joining the Challenge in March. For all their effort they will soon receive custom made fleece leashes with matching fleece balls. Cocoa and Oreo are two fun loving poodles who live with their mom, who’s a master at saving money. Check out Oreo’s Oval Office, Cocoa’s Corner and pick a coupon clipping tip from their mom.

Our second winner is one of our best 4legged friends.

Dare and her family of five other of our favorite 4legged friends keep their mom on her toes walking and training them. They not only reported that they are current on their goal of 365 miles in 365 days, they’ve surpassed that goal by over 100 miles! They currently have over 500 miles to their credit. That’s truly amazing and we’re thrilled they have enjoyed the Challenge so much. They’ve done so well that Marie set a new goal for the year and hopes to reach 1000 miles. They’ll soon be enjoying their very own snuggle and fun pack of a fluffy mat and their own fleece tug toys.

Chispita and Beth are the winners of third drawing. They recieves this honor for doing her own post about the Walking Challenge.

Chispita and Beth set a unique goal to walk seven hours a week. They’ve so far enjoyed over 68 hours of walking fun together. For their hard work they’ll recieve a special clicker trainers package that includes a treat bag, treats and a clicker. If you haven’t read Chispita’s Walking Challenge post I highly recommend hopping over and checking it out. While you’re there why not join Fun Friday with Beth and Chispita?

The giveaway has been really fun! For you lucky winners please email me an address to send your prizes too.

We’re halfway through the year folks, lets keep up the hard work and finish out the year with a bang!

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Maizey’s Update On the Halfway Giveaway

By katie, on July 2nd, 2011%

"My Crazymomlady says to tell you the Halfway Giveaway Winners have been chosen and she'll announce the winners as soon as this crazy weekend's over."

"Don't worry I gave her the squinchy face so she'd know she was silly and needed to get on with it. I'm sure she got the message, so keep your eyes open the great announcement could be any day!"

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It’s Not Just Monday Miles

By katie, on June 27th, 2011%

Monday Miles roundup is here again. How’d the week go everyone?

Along with Monday Miles I don’t want anyone to forget there’s only four days until the Halfway Giveaway. The cutoff for entries is July 1, 2011!

I asked before that everyone who wants to be entered for the second drawing let me know if you are up to date on your miles. As a friendly reminder: I can’t enter you for that giveaway if I don’t know where you are for the year in your miles. So if you are current on your goal and want to be entered to win a fabulous snuggle and fun pack please let me know no later than Thursday June 30, 2011. If you need to remember what the rules are the reminder is here.

If you’re current on your goal and want to be entered to win a fabulous snuggle and fun pack please let me know no later than Thursday June 30, 2011.

I’m logging in with five miles for last week. It doesn’t seem like much, but it brings us to 135 miles for the year! Magnus’ mysterious limp really put a crimp in our walks.

Magnus is my walking buddy. He’s such an easy walker. Not being able to walk him last week really showed me a few things. One was I don’t walk Maizey near as much as I should. It also showed me how much he needs his walks, he has been a crazy boy this week.

Another thing it reminded me was that I would love to be able to walk them together. Maizey makes walking into work. With a fearful dog you must always be on high alert. What dogs are coming up in yards? How close to the road are they? There’s a dog walking towards us, how can we get enough distance to prevent a reaction? I hate to say it, but it’s so much more work to walk my scaredy girl.

But choosing not to walk her is sheer laziness on my part, especially last week when Magnus couldn’t walk.

They are polar opposites when it comes to their reaction to dogs. He wants to go and visit, she needs distance and no interaction. On his own with me Magnus has great attention around other dogs. We’ve worked hard to make another dog just another dog. His attention goes out the window when Maizey reacts. It’s as if he knows my focus is on helping her, so he may as well go make a new friend. Picture me in the middle, one bundle of fearful Cavalier who needs to stay away from a stranger dog, one bundle of friendly Cavalier determined play with the same stranger dog. Can you hear me sighing?

Picture me in the middle, one bundle of fearful Cavalier who needs to stay away from a stranger dog, one bundle of friendly Cavalier determined play with the same stranger dog.

It’s a problem I have no answer too, but it’s time to find one. Until I do I need to step up and get back to walking them both separate. That means two walks a day. Wow! I better get out the whip to crack on myself, cause that will take real discipline.

So there’s my newest challenge in this year long journey of a Walking Challenge, how ’bout all of you? What did you face this week? Anything news for me? Let’s hear those miles folks!

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Countdown to the Halfway Giveaway

By katie, on June 24th, 2011%

The Halfway Giveaway is in the final countdown!

One week from today on July 1, 2011 we will be halfway through our 2011 Walking Challenge. That means this is the week you have to get your final entries in for the Halfway Giveaway.

As a reminder of the rules there are three chances to win. Just by being entered you all have your first chance to win.

Then if your are caught up with your personal goal you have a second chance to win. Here’s the catch for that, please let me know by July 1 if you are up to date with your goal. I have a record of what your goal is, but not when you started your challenge so it’s up to you to let me know if the figure I have is correct and if you are up to date with your goal. If I don’t know if you’re up to date I can’t enter you in the drawing.

Your third chance to win is by writing a post about the walking challenge and linking back here. So far this is who I know has written posts:

If you’ve written a post and I missed it I’m so sorry! Leave the link for me and I’ll get it posted for you.

Remember you’re in the running for three great prizes here including a fleece leash, a Magnus approved fleece toy and mat, even a clicker training pack is up for grabs!

So how ’bout it? Who’s on track with their goal? Any posts out there I’ve missed? As always if the numbers I have down for you are incorrect due to my math dyslexia please feel free to correct me!

Let me know as I’m getting all the book keeping done now so I’m ready in ONE WEEK to pull those numbers and give away some great prizes for all your hard work!

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