Janurary 2010 Sighthound Of The Month!

Meet our first SOTM for 2010; Whippet pup Dillon -



See our website to learn more about Dillon and how you can enter your hound to be the next Sighthound Of The Month!

As always, this contest is sponsored by our friends at Happy Tail Collars!

Thankful "Fur" Friends

We ran a photo contest last month and this picture of IG's Delila, Opal, and Quincy was the winning picture ...

December Sighthound Of The Month

Congrats to Lucius the Greyhound, he is this month's SOTM!

See his bio on the website - www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

Sighthound Ornament

My husband made this sighthound cutout ornament out of clear plexi; we were thinking of making more and selling them.

What do you think of it?

Get yours engraved with "GREYHOUND", "WHIPPET" or "ITALIAN GREYHOUND" for $8 here - http://www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/sighthound_ornament.htm

Recent contest winners

We had a couple of contests recently; one was a black and white photo contest, here is the winning entry -

Then we had a contest for the best costumed hound; here are the entries ...





And the contest winner; Lilly the IG as a Fairy Princess -

The November Sighthound Of The Month

Meet Mickey the IG! Don't you just love that little hat ;)

See the website this month to check out his bio and learn more about him and find out how your hound could be the next SOTM! www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars & Tags for their continued support of our community board and for sponsoring this contest!

Nov/Dec Featured Doggie Merchant

Fashions By Gigi is our Nov/Dec Featured Doggie Merchant!

Check out our website for more about them :)

The October Sighthound Of The Month Is ...

Daisy the IG!

Daisy is a cute little Italian Greyhound pup (also won the cuddle bug contest!) who lives in Scotland with her people and other sighthound siblings :)

See the website this month to check out her bio and learn more about her and find out how your hound could be the next SOTM! www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars & Tags for their continued support of our community board and for sponsoring this contest!

Best Cuddle Bug Contest - Winner annouced!

We held this picture contest on the message board (sponsored by our featured vendor, Daisy's Diva Designs) and today the winner was announced; Daisy and her duckie!


Daisy in an Italian Greyhound pup who lives in Scotland UK. She shares her home with her people as well as another IG and 4 Whippet siblings :)

October Training Project - Teaching "Say Your Prayers"

Check out the new forum for the first of the new monthly training projects with tips and how tos!

The first one (a few days early) is "Say your prayers"

http://4theloveofsighthounds.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=147

New Expert Forum On The Message Board!

Trainer and Author, Madison Moore (many IG people may know her already) has agreed to be our resident training expert!

So check out the message board and post your questions for her on our new "Ask The Expert" forum!

http://4theloveofsighthounds.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=146

Labor Day Coming Soon

This coming weekend is a long weekend for most of us in the US, since most should have Monday off to celebrate Labor Day.


Nothing exciting planned here; we may grill out ... so anyone else have anything fun planned for the long holiday weekend? Maybe we can live vicariously through you ;)

September/October Featured Merchant

Check out our website and find out more about our current featured doggie merchant, Daisy's Diva Designs!

They will be sponsoring a couple of contests on the message boards too; don't forget to check that out!!

Catching up

Sorry it has been so long since our last post ... so since July ...

The August Sighthound Of The Month was Tahira the Saluki -


Then the September SOTM was announced today; Mari the Italian Greyhound -


Who will be the October Sighthound Of The Month? Stick around and find out!

Have A Greyt Weekend!

For those of you in the U.S. this weekend, the 4th of July is Independace Day. This usually means celebration of some sort.

So however you do it, have fun and be safe!

*And take pictures! We are having a holiday weekend photo contest on the board; check it out!

July/August Featured Merchant

Check out our website and find out more about our current featured doggie merchant, California K9 Kitchen!

They will be sponsoring a contest on the message boards soon too; don't forget to check that out!

July SOTM

Congrats go out to Reva (and her Mom Tina) the Italian Greyhound for winning the July Sighthound Of The Month Contest!

See the website this month to check out her bio and learn more about her :) You can also find out how your hound could be the next SOTM! www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars & Tags for their continued support of our community board and for sponsoring this contest!

June SOTM

Congrats to Sophie (and her Mom Lisa) the Italian Greyhound for winning the June Sighthound Of The Month Contest!

See the website this month to check out her bio and learn more about her :) You can also find out how your hound could be the next SOTM! www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars & Tags for their continued support of our community board and for sponsoring this contest!

Cool mug

The winners from our 'Fun Photo Captions' contest got a gift from our CafePress Store

One of our winners shared with us what she got -

Isn't it cool :D

Catching up

So I hope everyone had a nice weekend this past week! For our US hound lovers it was Memorial Day weekend, so that ment celebrations for many. So we had a little contest for the best picture of your hound enjoying the weekend.

Here is the winner; Chavis, a Greyhound from Canada (not a US hound, but that is ok) -

So what did you do for the Memorial Day weekend?

May SOTM

Congrats to Getty the Italian Greyhound, he is this months' Sighthound Of The Month!

See the website this month to check out his bio and learn more about him :) You can also find out how your hound could be the next SOTM!www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars & Tags for their continued support of our community board and for sponsoring this contest!

Fun Photo Captions

We had a contest for fun photo captions; we had a tie, here are the two winners ...

Kati the Pharoah Hound - "Please Mom, no more pictures"











And Lily the Italian Greyhound - "Be vewy, vewy qwiet. I'm hunting wabbits"










Check out the message board and see what fun contests we are doing this month!

May/June Featured Merchant

Check out our website and find out more about our current featured doggie merchant, Iggy Collars!

They are sponsoring a contest this month on the message boards; don't forget to check that out too!

Guido the Divo!

We had a contest for the best Diva/Divo hound picture, and the cool IG, Guido here won!

Guido will get a cool new necklace from Rocks by Rox; they are the featured merchant this month!

Check them out here - http://www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/feature.htm

April Sighthound Of The Month!

Congrats to Whippet Chai; she is our April SOTM!

See the website to check out her bio and learn more about her :)
You can also find out how your hound could be the next SOTM!
www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars & Tags for their continued support of our community board and for sponsoring this contest!

March SOTM

Congrats to Dylan the Italian Greyhoud; she is our March Sighthound Of The Month!

See the website to check out her bio and learn more about her :)

You can also find out how your hound could be the next SOTM!

www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars & Tags for their continued support of our board and for sponsoring this contest!

Bling, Bling, Baby!

The Featured Doggie Merchant for March/April is "Rocks by Rox", maker of custom beaded necklaces for hounds of all sizes.

Check out the website and find out more about Rocks by Rox and get your hound's bling on!

www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/feature.htm

Rocks by Rox is also sponsoring a contest on the board this month! Check out the message boards (must be a member) to find out more - http://4theloveofsighthounds.com/board

See you there!

February SOTM

Congrats to IG Diva, the February Sighthound Of The Month!

See the website to check out his bio and learn more about her. You can also find out how your hound could be the next SOTM!

www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm

*As always, we give special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars for their continued support of our board and for sponsoring this contest.

Salmonella Outbreak - Peanut Butter Recall

More on the recall -http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/salmonellatyph.html

List of products affected -http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm

Everyone check your cabinets for your food and your pets treats! Salmonella may not affect our dogs directly, but it can affect us if they get into something contaminated!

Happy New Year from Vince!

Vince (an Italian Greyhound) is our first Sighthound Of The Month for 2009!!

See the website to check out his bio and learn more about him. You can also find out how your hound could be the next SOTM!

www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/month.htm




*Special thanks to our friends at Happy Tail Collars for their continued support of our board and for sponsoring this contest. Each month's winner receives a free collar!

Jan/Feb 2009 Featured Doggy Merchant

Happy New Year Everyone!

Visit the website and check out the first featured doggy merchant of 2009 Tails Me About It Collars!




Find out more about them here - www.4theloveofsighthounds.com/feature.htm

They are also sponsoring a contest on the board this month!

Check out the message boards (must be a member) to find out about the contest -
http://4theloveofsighthounds.com/board See you there!