Contest Alert!

Happy New Year!!

And how better to ring in the new year than to get a new collar for your Preppy Pup?!?! To enter post a picture of your Preppy Puppy on Preppy Puppies fan page on Facebook.

For extra entries...

Extra Entry #1 "Follow" my blog, www.preppypuppies.blogspot.com 

Extra Entry #2 Post something about the blog on facebook and tag Preppy Puppies

Extra Entry #3 Comment on this blog post

(Extra Entries 2 & 3 are limited to one entry per day)

The contest will close on MLK day. At that time all entries will be tallied and a winner will be picked using Random.org

Good Luck!

And the Winner is...

Wow over 150 fans!! Since so many people entered the contest I thought we should give away TWO free collars. So congratulations to Jackie Brittain and Emily Snipes!! Keep an eye out for more contests in August!

Preppy Puppy Contest

Help Preppy Puppies Facebook Page Reach 100 fans and win a free Preppy Puppies Collar of Your Choice!

To enter...all you have to do is "like" Preppy Puppies fan page on Facebook!

For extra entries...

Extra Entry #1 "Follow" my blog, www.preppypuppies.blogspot.com

Extra Entry #2 Post something about your favorite collar on facebook and tag Preppy Puppies

Extra Entry #3 Post something about the blog on facebook and tag Preppy Puppies

Extra Entry #4 Comment on a blog post (any post will do)

(Extra Entries 2-4 are limited to one entry per day)

The contest will close when the Preppy Puppies fan page reaches 100 fans. At that time all entries will be tallied and a winner will be picked using Random.org

Good Luck!

Vote for Tripper of the Month

Don't forget voting ends Tuesday, February 15!!!
Get your votes in by commenting below!

First Snow

Xmas in Bmore

Santa Tripper

Langdon Xmas

Tripper Tree

Smiling Tripper

Man Tripper

Close Up Tripper

And the winner is....

Stylish Tripper!!! Be sure to vote for December's Tripper of the month!!

Vote for Tripper of the Month

Don't forget to Vote for Tripper of the month!!!

Voting ends January 15!!

OK Mom...you win.

I have no excuses or even a good story I made up....I'm just slacking. I guess that's not entirely true, I've started making dogs collars (Web site coming soon!!) so I've been spending my very limited free time trying to finish the 35 orders I already have!

So Thanksgiving came and went...my family came up to visit, bringing their two dogs Riley and Maya. I must have been in a turkey coma because I didn't take any pictures of the group!! I do have a great video of them meeting but I'm in the process of editing it. I promise I'll get it up soon.

Other than responding to my Mom's cries for more posts...I really needed to post today, December 1 to announce a contest between my friends. On my most recent trip to NYC to visit Laura and Leah we were talking about how the blog provides them a nice study and work break. Of course I gave them a hard time for never commenting and hardly voting. I mean how do I know that anyone even looks at the pictures none the less reads what I write? So they decided that during the month of December they would have a contest to see who could generate the most comments and posts.

So consider this the official first day of the contest. I'll sort of make up the rules as we go but the winner will get an entire post...pictures and all...just about them. I'll obviously count comments and voting but they'll get 2 points for every time a person posts something and references them and 3 points every time someone "follows" the blog because of them. So we'll see how it goes...Good Luck Ladies!

Oh yeah...I invite anyone who wants to join the contest to please step right up. I mean who doesn't want me to blog about them???

Darien Tripper Wins

The September winner for Tripper of the Month was Darien Tripper. Thanks to everyone who voted, we had a high of 23 votes! Be sure to get your votes in for October!

Last Day to Vote

This is the last day to vote for the Tripper picture of the month. Be sure to get your vote in by the end of the day. If you're not sure how to vote, click on "Vote for Photo of the Month" on the right hand side of the page. Then scroll through the picture and pick out your favorite. At the bottom of the page you can make a comment and let me know which is your favorite. Leave a comment on this post if you have any issues or questions.

Last month's winner

Time Flies

It's amazing how quickly it seems as though times goes by the more you fill it up. Anyone who has known me for any length of time is sure to know that I am a compulsive busy bee.  For as long as I can remember I've always tried to fill up every part of the day, trying to cram anything and everything into 24 hours. The challenge was never to find time to do things, but to remember the time I spent doing them.

Thankfully, the other thing I'm pretty well known for is always having a camera ready. Whether it is documenting my college experience (<3 UConn Lax!) or watching my dogs grow up, I don't know where I would be without my photographs.

I only bring this up, one because my mom came up with a great idea (see photo of the month page) but two because not only has time flown since I last posted...but look at him!! He's huge, my little man is getting to be a big man...and I'm so thankful that I am a crazy psycho person who has taken over 1,000 pictures in the last 30 days.

 

 Since I've posted last over 30 boys have signed up for Tripper's club and we'll have the first lesson tomorrow. I've split the students up unto three classes, based on "experience". And by experience I mean, group #1 = My parents have raised a dog and I helped, group # 2 = I have dogs and group #3 = I like dogs. There was a little more to it than that but that was the general gist of it. 

 

 We haven't had class at Fidelco because a bunch of the puppies came down with kennel cough. Thankfully Tripper has been a healthy pup and we haven't had to worry. He won't have class again until next Friday, Oct. 2 when we do an individual walk with our instructor to learn about traffic. Something Tripper (and Casey and Rocky for that matter) don't know much about living on campus.

Though I'm sure I won't have time to post tomorrow (Mike and I are going to visit Ashley at Yale!) but I'll be sure to post as soon as I can. I can't wait to have class tomorrow and see how everyone does with the dogs!! **Oh yeah, before my soccer game on Wednesday I took the pups to the barn to meet the horses. Check out the pictures below!

Tripper enjoyed meeting the other Shepard at the barn.

Casey loves horses, she got right up there.

At first Tripper was much more interested in the poop than the horse.

Tripper didn't mind the horse, but didn't liked when they neighed.

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