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Welcome To Ohio!
What can I say about this past weekend but, “WOW!” BlogPaws 2010 is now a memory, but what a memory it is.
When Max, my trusty hound and I arrived Friday afternoon we were greeted with a dog bowl of water and biscuits before we even walked through the doors of the Columbus, Ohio Westin Hotel.
The Westin Hotel In Columbus, Ohio
And when we entered we were greeted with this sign.
BlogPaws Welcome Sign
So what exactly is a “BlogPaws” convention? Well, it’s a gathering of pet bloggers. Over 250 if I recall right, that get together (for the first time), get to know each other and get to help each other out. And it’s not about being competitors, but about “knowledge abundance.” About helping each other so that we ALL do a better job.
There were classes about blogging, SEO, having contests and getting sponsors. There were lots of contest giveaways and money given to Animal Shelters. (Max and Remy scored a lot of tasty treats!) But most of all, we hung out and got to know each other. And that, my friends, was priceless!
One of the nice aspects of the weekend was that we could bring our dogs if we wanted to.
Max Approves Of Our Hotel Room
When we couldn’t have our dogs with us, BlogPaws had a room, complete with great pet sitters (thanks, guys) for the dogs to play in.
Max Ignoring Other Dogs At Pet Park & Watching Me Go To Breakfast. What Can I Say? That Hound Loves Me!
I met lots of great people, including Nigel Buggers of Life With Dog fame. Check out his website here. It rocks and so does he. We will definitely be working together in the very near future!
Max met an awesome, laid back Great Dane named Rex!
Hanging With Rex, The Great Dane!
As some of you might already know, I’m proud to be part of Bissell’s Pack Of Pet Lovers! They make great products to help keep your house clean and they LOVE dogs and cats! In the future, they are going to give me some really cool products that I’ll be giving away to you guys in contests.
Here is the Bissell team hanging with Max!
Bissell Ladies Hanging With Max!
A real honor for me was meeting Andrea Arden. She’s an incredible dog trainer/rescuer and she’s also one of the hosts of Animal Planet’s Underdog To Wonderdog. She’s devoted her entire life to animals and it was so much fun hanging out at the closing party with her!
And I think Max really took to her!
Andrea Arden Poses With Max
Max Show Andrea A Little Love
Dog Files would like to thank the entire BlogPaws Staff for putting together and pulling off such a huge undertaking! Everything was thought out, planned for and executed flawlessly. Max and I can’t wait for next year!
Max, exhausted by the day's activities.
Apr 12, 2010 - View Comments
I’m so excited to have Animal Planet’s Andrea Arden on this episode of the Dog Files Monthly Audio Podcast, Dog Files Dispatch!
Our second episode features Andrea Arden, Dog Trainer extraordinaire and host of Animal Planet’s Underdog To Wonderdog and Dogs 101.
Our first episode features Johnny O, one of the founding members of rescue group, Rescue Ink, which was featured on their own television show on the National Geographic Channel.
