Friday, April 4, 2014

Happy One-Year Anniversary FitDog Friday (& Giveaway!)

Today's a special day for FitDog Friday as we celebrate our one-year anniversary! Can you believe it's already been a year of celebrating being fit and active with our pups?

Along with our co-hosts SlimDoggy and Peggy's Pet Place, we wanted to do something extra special today for all the FitDog participants

So today we bring you an extra special giveaway, valued at more than $230 and filled with goodies for both you and the active pup in your life.  Read all the way down to learn how to enter. 


AND, we'd also like to recognize our most loyal participants for their excellent contributions to our FitDog efforts.

So without further ado, we bring you the FitDog Anniversary Awards. In order of number of times appearing in the FitDog Friday Blog Hop, the awards go to:

High Mile Award: Paws and Pedals
 -- for the high number of miles that you and Scooter put on that bike each week! 
Consistency Award: Hawk AKA Brown Dog
-- for joining us on the hop week after week after week!
Pack Variety Award: Cascadian Nomads
-- for having such a diverse and varied pack, but all committed to good health & fitness!
Neighbor Award: Talent Hounds
-- for being such a great neighbor to the north and committing to our Hop each week!
Cross-Train Award: Dog Tread
-- for posting about the best cross training ideas and equipment each week!
Sweetest Award: Sugar, the Golden Retriever
-- for of course being the sweetest participant that we have and the one with the best snacks!
All Weather Award: My GBGV Life
-- for getting your exercise & fitness routines in come rain, snow, sleet or sun!
Athleticism Award: So Fly, My Life with Flyball Dogs 
-- for the amount of athleticism displayed by your dogs during their exercise & fitness routines. Love that flyball!
Pound for Pound Award: Tenacious Little Terrier
-- for being maybe our smallest participant but one who backs a lot of fitness into that little body!
In the Hunt Award: Sand Spring Chesapeakes
-- for demonstrating so vividly that hunting is tremendous exercise and a great way to keep your pups fit!
Please send your congratulations to our winners and we hope to see you all participate in another year full of fun and fitness! 

Now, on to our most dramatic giveaway ever!  

Enter to  Win a Colossal FitDog Anniversary Prize Pack

Enter for a chance to win our FitDog Anniversary Prize Pack, chock full of active dog goodies, via the giveaway widget at the bottom of this post. On the widget, simply enter your name and email address to get started. There are a number of ways to enter. You can choose to enter as many or as few ways as you like.

One lucky winner will receive this awesome prize package:
  1. Beautiful bracelet courtesy of For Love of a Dog. Whimsical alphabet beads spell out FETCH and are surrounded by black crystals and a red glass “ball” bead.
  2. One package SmartCookee Treats, your choice of three flavors.
  3. Paw Plunger: Gently, safely cleans paws BEFORE your pup cleans them on your best rug, clean sofa or freshly mopped floor.
  4. PetSafe Train & Praise: Teach your pet remotely with treats. The handheld remote activates the treat dispenser from up to 25 feet away, so good behavior can immediately be rewarded.
  5. Jones Chews Candy Box Woofers: They are great for all size dogs and are 100% grown and made in the USA. And as always, they contain no artificial ingredients.
  6. Chuckit! Tumble Bumper toy by Petmate
  7. Aspen Pet Cooling Mat by Petmate: a great bed for that post-workout cool down!
  8. SlimDoggy Hat: Keep that summer sun off your face while out walking your dog.
  9. SlimDoggy Bandana: Look sharp for spring with a SlimDoggy Banadana

Good luck!


A special thanks to Petmate, PetSafe, SmartCookee, For Love of a Dog, Paw Plunger and Jones Chews for providing the prizes for our FitDog Friday Anniversary Giveaway. 


106 comments:

  1. Thank you for recognizing our Pack Variety- we try our best to mix up fitness for our whole packs various shapes and sizes!

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    1. Recognizing each pups individual needs is a wonderful thing! Thanks for your loyal participation!
      Diane and Rocco

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  2. Happy anniversary and well done to those of you who made the whole year special. Have a fabulous fit Friday.
    Best wishes Molly

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  3. Thank you for the recognition! You chose a perfect award for us for sure! Happy FitDog Friday!

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    1. Thank you for participating with many great posts! Happy FitDog Friday!
      Diane and Rocco

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  4. My favorite activity for me & Ralphie is playing fetch & playing with all his toys

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    1. That's awesome! Love a good game of fetch!
      Diane and Rocco

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  5. Wow, awesome giveaway. My fave activity with my "fur kids" is dog agility - my poodle pup is just starting out in foundation class!

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    1. Awesome! We went through foundation training not too long ago. What a difference the proper foundation training makes! Have fun!
      Diane and Rocco

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  6. We love to go on hikes. Long hikes where they get so tired that they are dragging the ground!

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    1. We LOVE hikes! I'm working at building up my endurance so I can outlast Rocco. haha! I'll have the endurance of an Olympian before long!
      Diane and Rocco

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  7. Our dogs love to go swimming at our local dog beach!

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    1. ohhh, you're so lucky to have a dog beach close by!
      Diane and Rocco

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  8. We entered on SlimDoggy's site can we enter here too? You know that we both love to walk that's our fitness! Love Dolly

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    1. It's the same giveaway, so you only have to enter on widget. But you can tweet daily to up your chances (that's an option in the widget). Good luck!
      Diane and Rocco

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  9. My dog and I love our walks outside!!

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  10. My favorite activity with mom is when she takes me for walks with my doggie friends downtown!

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    1. We love to meet up with doggie pals too. How fun!
      Diane and Rocco

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  11. I love wrestling, playing fetch and playing with their toys with them. They're not able to run or do much that would require more air (Pekingese) so we have to keep things a bit more mellow.

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    1. Keep it low and on the ground! Sounds like fun!
      Diane and Rocco

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  12. We are walking every day and boy, do my dogs love it! Happy Anniversary to SlimDog and congratulations to all the great blogs that were recognized.

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    1. Thanks for coming by for our anniversary celebration! We love to walk too!
      Happy FitDog Friday,
      Diane and Rocco

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  13. Great giveaway! There are so many activities that me and Gershwin enjoy, I can't pick one! We love hiking, playing tug, learning new tricks, and last but not least, snuggling!

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    1. ohhh, we love all the same activities… especially the last one! Good luck!
      Diane and Rocco

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  14. Since both my dogs and I are getting up there in age, we like to just go out for walks. Living in the hills thats a pretty good walk just coming back up the hill to home.

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    1. Uphill walking can definitely be challenging. We have a killer hill we have to walk up too!
      Diane and Rocco

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  15. Happy Anniversary and thanks for co-hosting this great hop! What a generous giveaway, and great awards to deserving blogs!

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    1. Thanks for being a part of it! Happy FitDog Friday!
      Diane and Rocco

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  16. Our favorite activity is marching in dog parades and doing charity work to help rescue groups. And chasing balls and other flying objects. And so much more! With multiple dogs, there is always something fun to do!

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    1. Oh, sounds like lots of fun activities! Good luck!
      Diane and Rocco

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    1. Thank you! We'd like to win it! hehe!
      Diane and Rocco

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  18. Thank you so much for the cool hop and the great giveaways. Congrats on one year.

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    1. Thank you for your FitDog loyalty! Happy FitDog Friday!
      Diane and Rocco

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  19. Thanks for the blog award! Mr. N is small but mighty!

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  20. We love going for walks together! Thanks for the giveaway!

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    1. Walks are great! We love them too. Good luck!
      Diane and Rocco

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  21. Happy Anniversary!!! We love to take walks. In the backyard we play catch me if you can.

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    1. Backyard catch me is so much fun! Happy FitDog Friday!
      Diane and Rocco

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  22. I love to take the dogs to the beach, check out the lighthouses and play in the water!

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  23. We love going to the dog park

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  24. I give him a neck rub every morning.

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  25. This year has gone by fast! Congrats to all the award winners! Here's to many anniversaries to come and lots of fit pups!

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  26. My favorite activity is hiking with my dog, Artie.

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  27. I love anything I do with my dog, but I especially love when we go for hikes and spend a couple hours just enjoying the peacefulness of the woods.

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  28. My guys love to play and fetch balls. We go on walks and run around the nearby dog park.

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  29. We love taking the dogs to the river and hiking the nearby trails.

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  30. I love doing tricks with them! Also, we have started doing some agility and Jada loves to do jumps!

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  31. Frisbee and long walks!

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  32. My dog and I like to snuggle and watch movies on rainy day. On sunny days, we like to run at the lake.

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  33. Thanks for including Scooter & I in the awards. It's been a fun ride joining FitDog Friday each week & I look forward to the year ahead

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  34. Lots of acitivity for our dogs--hiking,skiing,snowshoeing,paddling,bikejoring...always busy!

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  35. I love it when she decides to randomly run at top speed around the house. Not so much when that's at 4am.

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  36. Happy One Year Anniversary! And congrats to all the winners! :D
    Our favorite activity to do together is to play fetch, although Terra's favorite game is keep-a-way ;)

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  37. My favorite thing to do with my pup is chase eachother around the house

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  38. Outside activities ~ walk along a creek ~ always get wet ~ walk in the woods ~ always get dirty ~ etc ~ but then we cool down with a nap ♥

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  39. I love running and playing with our nine rescue dogs in our back yard!

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  40. I love running and playing with our nine rescue dogs in our back yard!

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  41. I love to cuddle with my dogs,take them for walks,play all kinds of games & just be with them. If I had to pick just one it would be how our Shih Tzu/Toy Poodle Clairrie(she is only a puppy & had been severely abused,neglected & crated for 8+ hours a day) who we rescued the day she was going to be sent to a high kill shelter snuggles in bed with me every night sleeping in the middle like a baby usually with her head on my pillow. This shows me that dogs have so much unconditional love that they can overcome so much when they are shown love & kindness. Clairrie is my angel!!

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  42. We love to go to the dog park!

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  43. We like to take walks around the golf course

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  44. I love to go on car ride adventures with my buddy and then stop off at our local lake and let him bark at all the geese...he then gets to roll in goose poop. Bath time, however, is not one of his favorite things.

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  45. I like taking my dog on a long walk and to training class.

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  46. Playing fetch with the tennis ball
    cathycasper@hughes.net

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  47. Happy anniversary! We love going for walk and playing ball!

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  48. well hes kinda new.. we like walks right now..pond swimming..coming soon!

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  49. My puppygirl loves to have me throw the ball for her.

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  50. I love to take her down to the walking/bike path along the (Mississippi) river so she can meet other dogs. She gets so excited.

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  51. Favorite activities is playing catch!

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  52. We love playing catch with each of his stuffies, one at a time.

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  53. My favorite activity I do with my dog is just walking him he enjoys walks so much he is just a happy puppy when we walk you can see it I walk him 3x a day!

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  54. My dog and I love to go to the dog park and throw the tennis ball around

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  55. We love to go on walks around the block all the time

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  56. My favorite part of the day with my dogs is greeting them when I come home--so much love!!! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  57. Playing fetch in the river with my Lab.

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  58. Going by water, and long hikes and walks!

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  59. We like to play fetch or go for a walk or a run or play with this feather on a stick we have.

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  60. Love running around in the backyard he and the kids both burn so much energy and have a blast

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  61. We love going hiking with them at the State Park

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  62. My favorite activity with my dog is playing fetch

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  63. I enjoy taking my dogs for walks

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  64. Rotten and I love the dog park!

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  65. we love playing fetch either with a ball or a stick..we will go in the park and have a ball!!

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  66. We like to walk & hike together.

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  67. i like playing fetch the stick with my dog

    joe gersch

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  68. I don't presently have a dog. The cats would object. SO, I go to my Mom's for my dog fix. I love to play tug with her dog. Cocoa is always excited to see me cause I let her win. I would feel bad about beating a 3 lb chihuahua at tug of war.

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  69. I've been teaching my old dog new tricks with a clicker. It's been a bit slow going but I am seeing results.

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  70. she just loves to go to the park and run

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  71. Our favorite activity is playing fetch.

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  72. We love to play tug of war and fetch.

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  73. My favorite activity I do with my dog is playing fetch with tennis ball. He could go for hours.

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  74. i like to take my dog on long walks. she loves it and i love it too!

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  75. I love to take them on walks. What i really like is going outside in the fenced in yard and watching them play..playing tug of war with each other. I cant describe the kind of joy I get from just watching my girls. They are a blessing

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  76. My favorite thing to do with the dog is nap.

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  77. I like to play fetch in the backyard with my Lab. I like to play with squeeky toys with my Chihuahuas.

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  78. My favorite activity is to take my dog on car rides and then play in the park by the river.

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  79. My favorite activity is to just cuddle with my dog.He is old and really does not play anymore.

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  80. I like to take him for walks and cuddle on the sofa

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  81. CONGRATS ON ONE YEAR...WE LOVE TO TAKE WALKS AND CUDDLE.. HE IS SO CUDDLY.. THE KIDS ADORE HIM :)

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