Our Bo was chosen as Mr. March for the Ponder Cove e-calendar. It’s a cool online calendar that will help you keep track of your busy schedule, and it’s FREE!

The Ponder Cove Dogs eCalendar & Personal Planner offers you a full desktop view; daily, weekly, monthly and annual plan-ahead organizers; daily “To Do” reminders; and repeating event notifiers.

Also included is a  family calendar so each family member can have their own separate, personal section.

The multi-user eCalendar is perpetual – it does not have to be replaced every year – and neither do your notes, reminders or repeating events. No more forgetting Bowser’s B’day!

The eCalendar opens automatically with Windows so that it is the first program viewed. Download directly to your computer hard drive in just a few seconds, copy easily to a CD or 3.5″ diskette.

Please feel free to pass a copy of the program along to family, friends and colleagues – the program is small enough to attach to an email! It’s a perfectly safe and quick download – about 1.5 meg. CLICK HERE to begin the download.

Dogster member Ponder helps run Ponder Cove with his mom Martha. You may remember back in August Ponder’s mom was kind enough to give away a two night stay at her wonderful B&B.

Don’t you just love free stuff ? Enjoy!

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Recently I posted an article on tips for traveling with your dog(s) over the holidays.

Whether traveling by land or air, the American Humane Society provided us with helpful information on ways to minimize stress for your pet.

Today’s focus is on what happens when you arrive at your destination, how to be the perfect doggy guest. If you have family or friends who are kind enough to invite the entire family, four-legged buddies included, it’s important to make sure you prepare for your stay.

To get help on this subject I went to the owner of a dog friendly B&B, I figure she’s seen it all.  Martha who owns Ponder Cove, a beautiful B&B in the North Carolina mountains, was kind enough to give me a few minutes of her time to share some great tips.

So, let’s get shakin’ and make this a very successful holiday season. I will attempt to lay out the perfect formula to make you the best house guest ever with Bowser in tow.

1) Make sure Bowser gets a bath. He will shed less while being a guest and he certainly will smell better.

2) Make sure you pack Bowser’s much needed supplies in an appropriate box. I own the big Rubbermaid tubs that I buy from Target. Mine are the size of my dog crates. So, when we arrive it is stored on top of the crate. A tidy guest makes a happy host.

3) Make sure you have the much needed supplies.

a) Blanket or sheet to cover bed if Bowser is a bed buddy.

b) Food.

c) Bottled water. (It can be from your tap but it will prevent stomach problems if your dog is sensitive and used to your tap water)

d) Water bowl. Hosts hate being asked for kitchen bowls. It is just not sanitary.

e) If you use canned food…bring the can opener.

f) Place mat for water and food bowls.

4) Make sure you take the crate if he is crate trained. He or she will settle much better on arrival in his own bedroom versus a strange house.

5) Make sure Bowser is comfortable in the car before the journey. Give him plenty of room. Take along his favorite blanket and allow him to settle in nicely.

Martha has six more helpful tips, and a funny story of how she was once a guest with her dogs and broke every rule possible.  Grab your leash and run on over to Ponder Cove to check out the rest of the list and what not to do when you’re a guest.

If any Dogsters have a funny guest story give me a bark.

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Don’t miss out on the chance  to win the two night stay at dog friendly Ponder Cove bed and breakfast.  Spend a fall weekend in Asheville, NC and enjoy the beautiful fall foliage.  We’re down to the last 48 hours so start typing up your entry.

To win Ponder Cove’s distinguished “How DAWGS Do Travel” Award it’s time to take keypad to paw and, in 100 words or less, write in the comments section of the original post why you would be the best guest ever.

We want to hear about all your good manners and what you think makes the ultimate traveling “dawg”. The judging will be done by the Ponder Cove management team headed up by Ponder himself. Do yourself a favor and click on Poner’s link. Seriously, how could you not want to meet him?

The contest runs through August 31s^t.

Go post now, you could be a winner!!

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