Name Game WINNER (a very Wordy Wednesday!)

If you remember when I announced the (five) winners of the Name Game contest; I noted that I would be posting the WINNER (that will be receiving the prizes) sometime this week.

Our "Name Game" winners were:
Raiser Erin (#1)
Lisa, Ellie and Hosta (#2)
Cantrix (#3)
Sugar the Golden Retriever (#4)
Elijah and Hobart II (#5)

Each blogger was given a number (seen above by their name) based on which blogger commented first (1-5).
I decided to use random.org (since Brandon didn't want to pull a "number out of a hat"!) and the winner is...


...#4 (Sugar the Golden Retriever) Furry congratulations to Sugar; and I will be contacting you shortly!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest; and I do hope to host another giveaway/contest come Christmas time :)
Brandon will be "running" the blog shortly; but fur now, he's learning all the "behind the scenes" stuff.

Brandon's Raiser

The Winners Are...

OMD, my Valentine's Giveaway ended March 1st 2011... and it's time to pick the winners!!
I was hoping to do some "cool thing" for picking the winners... but in the end, my raiser tells me we are just going to use that "random.org" thing. Which I think is totally crazy... but we did it anyways.
We had a totally of 97 comments... and the TWO winners of our giveaway are:

Comment #40
"mayziegal said...

I hope you're having fun at puppy camp, Rudy! Thank you for doing this giveaway. Those sure are some super great prizes!
Wiggles & Wags,
Mayzie "

And comment #96
"Frankie Furter said...

Glad you reminded me about this. GOOD LUCK Everybuddy. "

A furry congratulations to Mayzie & Frankie Furter! (please send us your mailing address... at guidedogawareness AT yahoo DOT com).
Thanks to all who entered my giveaway, it sure was a lot of fun :)
Lots and LOTS of updates coming soon (including... many awards given to ME, goodie bags/packages/giveaways I've won/received in the mail... and some GREAT news from the guide dog school, about me!).

But fur now, one more HUGE congratulations to Mayzie & Frankie... you are 2 very lucky pups!

Furry Thursday kisses,

Rudy - The dog with a blog

Giveaway ends TODAY - We Need YOUR Help Picking The Winners!

Hey furry friends - Happy 1st day of March :) I think it feels like Spring already.
If you aren't like... totally ignoring our posts, then you should know by now, that MY Valentine's Giveaway ends today... yes, TODAY.
March 1st 2011 is the LAST day to enter... so make sure to do so, remember - treats ARE involved :)
**New followers are welcome to enter.
Enough about entering the giveaway... on to how the WINNERS will be picked.
We need your ideas, my raiser is just planning on doing the boring "random.org" thing... but I want to do something cool.
Have an idea?? Feel free to leave it in a comment!
Some things we've tried before... that didn't work:
-Popping balloons (Um... I picked to many to pop)
-Picking a numbered piece of paper (since I'm in training to be a guide dog... I know I'm not suppose to touch paper - so that doesn't work!)
-Putting comment numbers on exact toys and me picking just 1 (haha... seeing from my last giveaway/contest - I wanted EVERYONE to win... as I picked up all the toys)
-Putting comment numbers on treats (everyone knows that you have to eat ALL of the treats)

So, excluding the above ideas... let me know what you've got!
Remember, 2 winners will be picked - if we don't decide a "cool way" to do it... my raiser will just go with the "random.org" thing.

Lots of new pictures of ME, coming furry soon :)
Tickling Tuesday kisses,

Rudy - The dog with a blog

Hands Free Waist Leash - WINNER!

The Hands Free Waist Leash Giveaway ended last night - and my raiser used random.org to pick a winner (she thinks it takes WAY to long to let me pick a winner...).

The winning number is...

#3!

My furry cool raiser went to the giveaway post and comment #3 is...

Oskar said...
We are followers of your blog!
December 20, 2010 4:49 PM

Furry congrats to Oskar for winning the Hands Free Waist Leash!
My raiser will be emailing you shortly.

Furry thanks to Lucky Paws for letting us do a REVIEW & GIVEAWAY!

We hope Oskar enjoys the leash as much as we do :)

Christmas post coming later today,

Rudy

The dog with a blog

**WINNERS - WINNERS**

Hey furry friends!
My raiser is FINALLY helping me with the WINNER post. Yep, my Holiday Contest/Giveaway is now over - and the finalists (posted earlier today) were picked this morning:
Top 5 for the Dog Lovers Pack Giveaway:

1. Corbin

2. Mango

3. Busy Buttons
4. Michaela & Rascal

5. Oscar the Terrier

Top 3 for the Humans Only Giveaway:

1. Sugar the Golden Retriever
2. Samantha
3. Kari
My raiser had a furry cool friend pick the winning poems - she did not know who wrote the poems - or what blog they had - all she did was choose her favorite ones :)
Congratulations goes toooo:

Humans Only Giveaway WINNER:
Sugar the Golden Retriever

Dog Lovers Pack WINNER...S:
Corbin ...... AND Oscar the Terrier
**WAIT** That's TWO winners... Oops! The friend couldn't pick just one - so she picked her favorite 2 poems; and my raiser was going to do a drawing for the winner.

She thought it would be a furry cool idea to put the 2 winners names on the bottom of 2 dog toys - and whichever I picked... would be the furry cool winner.
As you can see below... It didn't work out (I can't pick just one!)

(Movie of 2 toys; Rudy goes and picks up one... then the other - he walks away carrying BOTH toys!)


We gave up that idea... and went on to wrapping the names around 2 dog treats:

(Movie of 2 treats with winners names around them - Rudy does pick one of them)
and...

The winner is........... Corbin!

Congratulations to both Sugar & Corbin for winning my Holiday Contest/Giveaway!

My raiser will be (trying) to email the WINNERS shortly - but if you see this post, feel free to send us an email! (guidedogawareness AT yahoo DOT com)

FURRY CONGRATS & MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Rudy

The dog with a blog

Congratulations to the finalists for my Holiday Contest!

That's right - my raiser has picked the finalists for MY Holiday Contest/Giveaway - that ended Yesterday (December 15th 2010).
It was suppose to be the top 3 for each giveaway (Dog Lovers pack & Humans Only giveaway)
BUT she couldn't just pick three for the dog lovers one... and ended up picking FIVE (it was eight - but I made her weed it down more!).
If you're name isn't below - that doesn't mean your poem wasn't furry cool; as I liked many of the ones that my raiser didn't pick.
My raiser said it was furry hard just picking five (and 3) fav poems - so she'd like to give a shout out to ALL who entered:

To anybody that entered our Holiday contest/giveaway - THANK YOU - your poem was furry fun to read - and I wished I could have picked ALL OF YOU to win! Luckily I had a friend pick the winning poems - as I couldn't pick just 1 of my furry followers - thanks again for entering!

See below for the finalists:

Top 5 for the Dog Lovers Pack Giveaway:
1. Corbin
2. Mango
3. Busy Buttons
4. Michaela & Rascal
5. Oscar the Terrier

Top 3 for the Humans Only Giveaway:
1. Sugar the Golden Retriever
2. Samantha
3. Kari

My raiser is having 1 friend pick the winner for the Dog Lovers pack giveaway AND another friend pick the winner for the Humans Only giveaway.
She has already talked to one of her friends - and the winner has been chosen for the Dog Lovers Pack (will be announced later today on this blog). The Humans Only Giveaway winner will be picked in the next couple hours - my raiser's other friend is busy at the moment; but will pick the winning poem shortly.
Congrats to the finalists - and be on the look out for the 2 WINNERS of my Holiday Contest/Giveaway.
Furry thanks for entering; if my raiser has time - she does hope to post the finalists poems in another blog post - as not everybody left the poem in a comment; many have been emailed to her - and we know you guys would love to read them!
My raiser is done (for now!) with cooking her homemade dog cookies -I'm giving all 4 paws up to my raiser's cookies :)
Once both giveaway winners are picked (and we have their addresses!) - we hope to get the packages out in the mail tomorrow or so.
Rudy
The dog with a blog

Fun at The Sitters

Hey furry friends - Rudy here :)
I'm finally back... yes, I'm BACK!!
Thanks to all the furry awesome bloggers who left comments while I was gone, I truly enjoyed reading through them when I got back.
My Raiser (and her family) picked me up on their way back into town. I was jumping with excitement when she came to the door to get me!
Updates about how it went at the sitter's house in another post - but fur now...
I furry glad to be back!
My raiser will soon be uploading the photos she took while down at Disney - and I told her she could post a couple, even though they have NOTHING to do with me :(
But she did mention she met Pluto... and got a picture with him :)

My raiser said she had a huge blast at Disney, but at some moments she really missed me. She said that during her week down there, she saw 5+ service dogs there! Which just made her miss me even more.
She knew that while she was splashing at the water park or going upside down in a roller coaster - I'd be having fun back at the sitter's house. And she was furry right!
They had 2 dogs there for me to play with... and it was awesome!

I'll be sending out the prizes to the giveaway winners shortly, my raiser picked up some fun stuff for them while she was down at Disney World!

Rudy
The dog with a blog

Congratulations to KHYRA! (and bye to Rudy!)

*(Written by Rudy's Raiser)*
As you can tell from the title - Khyra is the winner of the leash and collar giveaway. Huge congratulations to KHYRA! Movie below of Rudy picking the winner.
Speaking of Rudy...
Why is he not writing this "furry fun post"? He's GONE, yes GONE! He didn't have anytime to write before he left :(
Due to the fact that some of us are heading down to Disney World (tomorrow) Rudy had to head over to a puppy sitter's house. We took him to another puppy raiser yesterday. And he will be spending over a week with another dog in our group (Charlie S - a new puppy to the group).
But a sad side to yesterday - Rudy had to visit the vet. He was getting sick (vomiting) all day yesterday, and we ended up taking him to the vet. We don't know what was wrong with him - but he was doing much better last night. More about him later.

Back to KHYRA - the winner of our giveaway!
Rudy picked you for one reason Khyra... because you were the best looking treat! (okay... that's a lie - all 5 winners had there name wrapped around the same treat!) But furry congrats to you!

I also let Rudy pick one other treat (because I was feeling happy), and the runner up will win a small gift that I get while I'm down at Disney.
So congrats to Rascal and his trainer for winning runner up! I'll be sure to pick you something out while we are down at Disney World!
And thanks to all who entered Rudy's giveaway! He's planning on doing one around Christmas time (if I let him), enjoy the movies below!

So if Khyra & Rascal's trainer could please email me at guidedogawareness AT yahoo DOT com so I can get you're mailing addresses!

Rudy's Raiser
The human without a dog that has a blog

Below is the movies of Khyra being picked:

(Movie of my hand mixing up the 5 winners - wrapped over treats. Once I'm doing mixing them up, I tell Rudy to get one. He thought about eating them all - but was only allowed to pick one! And yes... this isn't the first movie taken on the giveaway winner... Rudy kept trying to pick a winner before I was ready!)


(this is a movie of me opening up the piece of paper - to see who won. The camera wasn't in focus well - but you can kind of tell is says Khyra!)





Below is Rascal & his Trainer getting picked: (sorry about my pointing to certain treats... I accidentally pointed to one.... so I had to point to the rest so I wouldn't confuse him!)

(Movie of Rudy picking the runner up winner. Sorry about my pointing - I pointed for him to get it.... and it looks as though I pointed at one certain name! So I made sure to point at each one right afterwards! Though Rudy would have rather just eating them all :)

(Movie of me getting the treat/runner up out of Rudy's mouth. Once I unwrap the treat - Rudy gets to eat it! I wasn't holding the camera while I did this. So you can kind of see my hands - with Rudy behind me)

Giveaway WINNERS

The winner hasn't been chosen yet... but my raiser used random.org to pick FIVE winners.
From there I will chose the one winner of the leash and collar giveaway.

Please congratulate the top five winners:

1
Comment #4:
Valerie said...
Very nice!! Cindy Jae would look fabulous in those :-)
September 15, 2010 4:35 PM

2
Comment #18
Ellen said...
Wow what a beautiful dog. I also have a son at USNA. Enjoyed seeing Rudy on T-Court!
September 16, 2010 7:54 AM

3
Comment # 30
Joey said...
Hey Rudy, I know your brother, Kelton. He is in my group.
September 18, 2010 3:15 PM

4
Comment #15
Khyra And Sometimes Her Mom said...
Khongrats on such a khool giveaway!I'm in please!Hugz&Khysses,Khyra
September 15, 2010 8:40 PM

5
Comment #21
Rascal's Trainer said...
Happy 400!!! You've done a great job. Count Rascal and me in.
September 16, 2010 2:24 PM

I really wish all the furry fun bloggers could win the giveaway... but I'm only allowed to chose ONE. :(
From here my raiser will write down those five blogger's names.... and wrap them around treats - whichever I pick up first (not letting me eat the paper) is the winner. She does plan to capture this moment on video.... for all of you guys to watch!

Furry congrats to the top 5 winners.... but ALL of you guys are winners to me!


Rudy
The dog with a blog

Congrats to the WINNER of my GIVEAWAY!!

My raiser just blew up AND stuffed TEN balloons (complete with the ten names picked by random.org).
And she just put them down for me to pick one. She about thought I wasn't going to pop one (see below movie... of me "trying"). But right before she cut the camera for the last time.... I DID - I really popped one!!

Congrats to Deborah entry #72!! You are the winner of my furry cool giveaway! I'm off to email you now!

Thanks to all else who entered the giveaway, I enjoyed it so furry much... and I hope you aren't to bummed out that you didn't win the furry cool duffle bag - perfect for storing cute little puppies in!

Furry kisses friends! (Please let me know if you can't see the movies - as my computer won't let me view them for some odd reason)

Rudy

The dog with a blog

(Movie of me sniffing some balloons -my raiser chose blue & white for SEGDI colors)

(Movie of Rudy playing with balloons - he chose a blue one - and does pop it, which then stuns him for a second - but he was back to playing after he realized he didn't just kill something!)

And The WINNERS are...

My giveaway ended yesterday - and my raiser FINALLY has time to help pick the winners.
(yes winners - I will use "random.org" to pick TEN winners - and out of those ten I will then "nose pick" the top one).

Want to know how? My raiser is going to put the top ten names in ten different balloons... and whichever I pop first... is the winner! (And if I decide not to pop one... then my raiser will do if for me!)

Now for the comment numbers - there are more entries then shown on the giveaway post - as most people just left 1 comment with all their entries. So my raiser did a word document and made a nice list of each entry from each person- and off that list ten names will be picked.

Below you will see the name of each winner - Please note that you ARE NOT the real winner of the package if your name is listed below... you will just be put in another drawing done by me! (if you aren't sure if a name below is/isn't you - all names are linked to their blog)

Out of 137 entries... the top ten are:

1. Deborah(Entry 71)

2. Lynda Del. (Entry 29)

3. Raiser Erin (Entry 104)

4. Feral Female (Entry 41)

5. Lynda Del. (Entry 27)

6. Deborah (Entry 72)

7. Kira The BeaWootiful (Entry 122)

8. Lauren and Don (Entry 3)

9. Khyra And Sometimes Her Mom (Entry 33)

10. El'bow and Hauwii (Entry 11)

Wow, those are some random numbers! Seems like 2 bloggers got picked twice!
My raiser did get "pictures" of each number random chose... pictures coming in a later post!

Congrats to the ten winners... and I'm off to pick the top one. (and comment on the top ten winning blogs)
Rudy
The dog with a bog

And the Winner is...

Comment number 39!!
Congrats Ro on winning Toby's giveaway (my homemade goat milk soap - dog style)!
I was surprised at how many entries I had - 58!
I wrote 1-58 numbers down on a piece of paper, cut them up, then put them in Toby's dog bowl.
After mixing them up, I closed my eyes & grabbed a random number... pulling out #39!
Ro is a current reader of my blog (and has been since last year), and just received her first guide dog in February!
Congratulations Ro, I'll be talking to you soon :)
Funny how in her winning comment it said "though I never win anything", looks like she just did!
I'm off to go find out if I've won any giveaways, thanks all for entering my giveaway, if you didn't get a chance to see the prizes just pop over to Toby's giveaway post and check out the dog soaps! (for humans).

Toby's Raiser
The human without a dog that has a blog

(Movie of me picking the winner. It's a little shaky, as I had my eyes closed!)