Wow, this was a hard one to choose.  We got so many great answers, but in the end we chose Jill Merrick.

It was the thought of washing off all that oil that got to me.  After all… dogs, water and oil don’t mix.

Congratulations Jill, bath time just got a little easier thanks to your new HydroSurge Rapid Bath.

Tale one: I came home one day and found my first dog had chewed up four quarts of oil. He kindly did three quarts, one in each section of the basement. The last quart was in the middle of his nice dog bed. When I slid into the room, he was sitting in the middle of it, with his hair all spiked like I’d used gel. It took four baths and ALOT of patience. Finally had to use Lava pumice soap to make a dent in the oil.

Tale two: My other dog - we went to the park after work. He loves the water, so I thought I’d give him a treat and let him charge for the lake. Little did I know that they had drained it of all the water and all that was left was about three feet deep of pond silt . He was covered with the gooey, smelly, sticky goop. The bathroom is upstairs and he refuses to go up there on his own. Put him on a leash and finally coerced him up. But at 110 pounds, all I could do was get the front feet in the tub. After about 20 minutes of wrestling and the bathroom being covered in mud, I gave up and took him to Petsmart. The groomers hosed him off for me…..

A close second was from Michelle, she got some bonus zealies for her effort.

I have one story that contains my two dogs. It happened shortly after Thanksgiving last year. My two dogs (Henry a Black German Shepard and Griffin a Border Terrier) spend the day in my kitchen/sun porch while I am at work. Needless to say this leaves them full access to my kitchen.

My family had left from visiting and I was cleaning up the kitchen and placed an opened bag of flour on the bottom of my backers rack in between my refrigerator and stove. Completely forgetting that I had left it there I left for work come Monday.

Upon my arrival home from work I entered the sun room and noticed that neither of my two dogs greeted me. This was highly unusual and most certainly indicated that they had done something wrong. Then it hit me.

My entire sun room was covered in flour. The walls, the floor, my furniture, the windows and oh yes, my dogs. They gingerly stepped out from the kitchen both covered from head to toe in whie all purpose flour. It was a mess. Both dogs were covered in flour and in certain places it was caked.

My black German Shepard was now white and my Border Terrier was a lighter shade of brown. They apparently tried to eat some of it because the water bowl was bone dry causing the flour on their noses and snouts to cake up. I just stood there in total disbelief of what I was seeing. After collecting myself and trying my best to clean up the sun room I then attempted to give both of them baths. It took two baths per dog to get all the flour off of them.

Thanks to all the Dogsters that took the time to enter, all the answers were great.

Our Wonky Bonker contest has come to an end, we have our winners.  As an added surprise, the very kind folks at Bamboo , maker’s of the Wonky Bonker, offered up a few extra prizes to giveaway.

So, we have two winners chosen at random, plus one for most creative, and the other for best answer.

Our random winners:

Athens, Austin, Braedey, Kenzie & Tucker

Wow! This toy looks totally pawsome. We had one that looked like a cat once. The toy finally crossed the rainbow bridge after several years of playing with it. We LOVE to toss about our toys and wrestle together and play keep away from the other pooches in our family. We would love to make this an addition to our box of toys!

(Christine-puppies mommy)

K-leb

I love toys
that make noise,
they bring me joys
and keep me poised!

Prize for most creative goes to Kenyon’s mom.

Cini Mini Bon Bon’s Ode to Lizards

Lizards for breakfast,
Lizards for lunch,
Lizards for playing,
and lizards to munch.

They make me crazy.
They don’t make me lazy.
If I were a flower
I’d be a daisy.

If you give me a Wonky Bonker
I could rest my honker
Cause I could have big fun
Without sniffin’ a lizard to conquer!

Lastly, our winner for best answer goes to Precious Penelope Peanut.

Mom was on the computer and I was watching from under her arm and I saw a wonderful fun looking toy. Mom doesn’t know I can read but I can! When mom went to let our 2 collies outside, I quickly leaped up into momma’s chair to check this crazy looking toy out! Well, it says I have to write a note about why I want to win one so here goes:

I live with two huge dogs! They look a lot like me but none of my kind are that big. Don’t know if they are mutants, giants or what! Mom says I’m a sheltie and they are collies. What ever they are, they are toy hogs! My gosh! Here I was living happily with mom & dad and had all my toys to myself. Mom says I’m very smart cuz I know each one of their names and will pick out the one she asks for out of a pile of them. DUH! Of course I know their names!

Anyway, this little dog named Murphy moves in and he didn’t have a clue. I thought about showing him stuff so he wouldn’t be so dumb but all he wanted to do is steal my toys and try to chew them up! Then, it was a miracle or something because this little imp of a dog suddenly starts growing almost before my eyes! His nose got long, his legs grew very long and his body got huge. I kept wondering if he was like Clifford, the big red dog but eventually he stopped growing. But everytime I had a toy he came up and body slammed me and took it away!

Then last year another mutantly large dog that looks just like Murphy came, her name is Pepper and she is Murphy’s mother. Well, what this means to me is that I can never play with any of my toys! If I won this toy, I’d keep it in a special place where only I knew where it was so it could be all mine!

Thank you, Peanut

Thanks to all the Dogsters who entered, we had some great answers.  Make sure to read Dogsters’ blog daily because we have more fun contests coming up. Here’s a tease…delicious gourmet dog treats and an amazing 3 minute dog wash.

We want to thank all the Dogsters who entered our  “Calling All Dawg’s” contest.

Ponder had a very hard time making a decision because he received so many great entries.

After taking time to ponder over all the great answers he made his choice and the winner is…. Agadore Spartacus and his mom, Donna.

Me and my mom would be your BESTEST GUESTS! Mom got me, a standard poodle, 5 years ago. Then she rescued Beaner, an abused pit bull. Now she has Magic- she is fostering her til her daddy comes home from being deployed. So here’s WHY we’d make the bestest guests- I need some ALONE time with mom. It used to be just me and her, and now I have to share her! I don’t mind helping out, but it has REALLY cut into my SPECIAL time- walkies, hikes, trips to get toys and such.

I know that Mom is busy, but if we won this, she’d take the time to give me a weekend ALL MY OWN!

PLEASE I NEED A WEEKEND AWAY !

Thanks muchly-
Agadore Spartacus, Standard Poodle Extraordinaire

Ponder shares his residence with Dollie Mae and Buck ,  both of which just showed up on Ponder’s doorstep one day; hungry, lonely and cold.   Like Agadore,  he made room in his home for these two less fortunates.   Maybe he choose Agadore Spartacus because he knows the importance of alone time with mom.

Ponder, and his gracious mom Martha, wanted to show their appreciation to all those who took the time to enter but didn’t win.  They are offering a $50 gift certificate to be used toward a visit at beautiful  Ponder Cove.

If you are interested all you need to do is email Martha, martha@pondercove.com, to find out all the details (inc. rates, dates, and restrictions).