Traveling with Your Dog #Infographic

As you know, we love to travel with Irie and Tiki and do it as much as our schedule and our budget will allow. Our girls are both large dogs so that means car travel for us–and they love nothing better than to take a car trip, whether it’s a day trip to an area lake or a trip to the beach for a few days.

This week, HerePup.com asked me for a few thoughts on saving money when you travel with your dog, something that’s always on our mind. (And, as you know, we write a quarterly column for FIDO Friendly magazine about just that topic.)

HerePup created a great infographic that I wanted to share with you; be sure to check out their full article for lots of great tips!

New on PawZaar: Silver Dog Photo Charm>> #Giveaway!

We love traveling with Irie and Tiki and like nothing better than to chat about our girls. Sometimes, though, they just can’t accompany us everywhere–like the grocery store. But I always feel like they’re with me when I wear our new photo charm!

I’m so excited to announce our new Silver Dog Photo Charm on PawZaar. Made from .925 sterling silver, this charm is perfect for slipping in your dog’s photo to wear as a pendant or on a charm bracelet.

To celebrate our new product, we’re giving away a photo charm! The winner will be able to select a Silver Dog Photo Charm or our new Silver Cat Photo Charm — and the giveaway is open to pet lovers everywhere!

Special Offer

Save 15% on the new charms and on all your PawZaar purchases with coupon code SAVE15 at checkout! As always, 10 percent of the proceeds from your purchase go to help the week’s featured pet rescue!

How to Enter

As always, you’ll enter in the widget below; you may return to the widget any time within the giveaway period for more entries. Good luck!

Entry-Form

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Shelter Saturday: March 5

March has arrived, and along with the blustering breezes that are so often associated with the third month on the calendar, shelter dogs from coast to coast are hoping that the winds of change will blow in their favor.

Even if you aren’t in the position to ‘run like the wind’ to your nearest shelter to adopt an animal in need, you can help the approximately 3.9 million dogs who find themselves in the U.S. shelter system each year simply by sharing their photos on social media. Following are a few of the adoptable dogs and cats who we showcased this week on Twitter. For a look at all of this week’s highlighted adoptables and the latest news of animal-loving luminaries who use their star wattage to shine a spotlight on paws causes, follow us at @HollywoodDogs.

California

Cameron, a 6-yr-old Leonberger at a shelter in #Downey, #CA, needs a home https://t.co/gVK7cE64n6 URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 1, 2016

Pip (A459520), a 3-yr-old Chihuahua mix at a Moreno Valley, #CA shelter, needs a home https://t.co/2Ly0DQNjuQ URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 2, 2016

Ava (A459521), a 3-yr-old Chihuahua mix at a Moreno Valley, #CA shelter, needs a home https://t.co/a7ensQEtrx URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 5, 2016

Georgia

River, a young American Staffordshire Terrier mix at a #Savannah #GA shelter, needs a home https://t.co/nmhJktwLqb URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 4, 2016

Huggy, a Black & Tan Coonhound mix at a shelter in #Savannah, #GA, needs a home https://t.co/aMElWaiMez URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) February 29, 2016

North Carolina

Zoe, a 1-yr-old Lab mix at a shelter in #Newport, #NC, needs a home https://t.co/04HkJi43Xd URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 3, 2016

Texas

Destiny, a Shepherd mix at a shelter in #Odessa, #TX, needs a home https://t.co/H0X4leuH7j URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 3, 2016

Ella, a young Pit Bull mix at a shelter in #Odessa, #TX, needs a home https://t.co/T2dFoK6cov URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 2, 2016

Lilliana, a young Border Collie mix at a shelter in #Lancaster, #TX, needs a home https://t.co/YZIVMzl1fn URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) February 28, 2016

Virginia

JB, an 8-yr-old Terrier at a shelter in Virginia Beach, #VA, needs a home https://t.co/MfVZuOwPdx URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 4, 2016

Bruno, a 2-yr-old Pit Bull mix at a shelter in Virginia Beach, #VA, needs a home https://t.co/4pyoRe1MES URGENT #AdoptableDogofDay

— Hollywood Dogs (@HollywoodDogs) March 5, 2016

Don’t Miss Our New BarkPost Article!

As you know, before John and I became pet writers, we were travel writers. We were lucky in that our magazine and guidebook assignments took us around the globe. While our specialty was the Caribbean, we often received assignments further afield, from Borneo to Britain, Malaysia to Morocco.

We loved traveling in Europe and, of course, never could resist travel photos of us at famous attractions…

These days, our travels are limited to stateside destinations, ones where we can travel with our Irie and Tiki (because we’d never, ever fly them any way but in the cabin of an airplane, and that’s not happening with 60-pound dogs).

But we just finished up a fun travel article for BarkPost, the blog of BarkBox, about “10 Places to Fake a European Vacation Photo with Your Dog.”  We rounded up 10 great places where you and your dog can post in front of “European” attractions, all while never reaching for your passport. We hope you enjoy our new article!

Fido’s + Fluffy’s #FreebieFriday Heads to the Lake!

It’s starting to feel like spring here (which I love…but it does make me worry that the summer temperatures will be right around the corner!) On Wednesday, Irie and Tiki convinced us to sneak away from the computers for a few hours and enjoy a day trip to Inks Lake State Park and the nearby Kingsland Slab:

We even saw the very first bluebonnets starting to peek out along the roadsides!

We had great fun…but today I’m back to my office spring cleaning project…which is going to mean a LOT of new giveaways in the coming weeks! And speaking of giveaways, it’s time for a new Fido + Fluffy’s Freebie Friday Blog Hop that we co-host with To Dog With Love and CatTipper.

As always, we welcome bloggers to link up pet-related giveaways! Please link directly to your giveaway, not to your home page. (Please don’t link to non-giveaway posts.) We post a new blog hop every Thursday afternoon at 4pm ET. And we hope everyone tries their luck at some of the giveaways below…good luck!

Disclaimer: Each giveaway has its own entry rules. DogTipper, To Dog With Love, and CatTipper assume no responsibility for the legality of the rules governing the listings on other sites and giveaways that are posted here. We simply provide this forum as a gathering place for pet product giveaways to be offered. Fulfillment of each giveaway is done by the blog conducting the giveaway, not by the hosts of this giveaway hop; please contact the giveaway host with any questions regarding a giveaway or giveaway prize.

Our New Look!

Did you notice our new look? We’re excited to bring all our pet sites under one umbrella! Now DogTipper is rebranded as The Dog Blog of PawZaar while CatTipper is…you guessed it…the cat blog of PawZaar!

The past month, you’ve already seen the change in our weekly newsletter, now PawTipper, the weekly newsletter of PawZaar, DogTipper and CatTipper. Now we’re bringing the change to DogTipper, too, to bring the whole family of sites together!

You’ll still find all your favorite sections and features:

• Giveaways


• News


• Celebrity Adoption News


• Product Reviews


• Tips


• and more!

The navigation bar now features links to CatTipper and to our store, making it easy to hop around our family of sites. And, speaking of the store, don’t forget to use coupon code SUBSCRIBER on your PawZaar purchases to save 15% — and 10% of the proceeds from your purchase still go to help the week’s featured pet rescue!