Dog Gifts

Ted Hoff is the talented face behind Colorado-Dog-Trainer.com, the Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel’s website! We’re so pleased to find so many experienced dog trainers and dog boarders in our wonderful state of Colorado, and we’re here to share them with you. After all, we got started crafting pet gift baskets, so we want to make sure we’re doing all we can to help pets lead wonderful lives!

The Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel has been thriving for the last 20 years, hosting dogs from all over the world, even New Zealand and Venezuela! Ted specializes in hunting dogs, but also has a wealth of experience in all all types of dog obediance and behavior training. The ranch is located on 322 acres of land, with open fields, ponds, and beautiful views of the West Elk Mountains. It’s truly a breathtaking place for both you and your dog, and an environment that can help your dog’s training succeed even more!

We’re all about supporting other Colorado businesses, especially ones working for the good of our furry friends! Playful Pooch is a dog daycare and dog boarding center located in Denver, CO. With over 7,500 square feet of indoor and outdoor dog care and training areas and one very talented and friendly staff, you know your pooch will have quite the smile on his or her face!

The staff absolutely loves dogs, so you can rest assured knowing your dog is in good hands while you’re out-of-town. They’re even a member of the Pet Care Services Association, with various-sized kennels so both small and big dogs will be so comfortable. Your dog will feel just like he or she is right at home! We’ll hope you’ll visit the Playful Pooch site and take a look around, and perhaps board your dog there the next time you’re out of town.

We had the great pleasure of coming across the Colorado Dog Blog recently, and we’re so glad we did! Now, we may be a bit biased since we’re also located in the wonderful state of Colorado, but we just love the interesting posts on the blog. The blog is full of fun dog facts (such as the tallest dog!), information on how Colorado is working to put an end to animal abuse, and light-hearted posts on dogs both in Colorado and the rest of the U.S.!

We hope you’ll head on over to the Colorado Dog Blog and read their great posts – you might even get the urge to visit our favorite state!

If you have a dog and live anywhere near Marysville, WA, you must take your loyal pooch over to Adventure Dog Ranch! Adventure Dog Ranch is technically a kennel for when you need to board your dog, but it’s so much more – it’s a cage-free alternative, dog daycare, and dog training facility. Your dog will be able to have fun playing in a total of 21,200 square feet, supervised by the professionals at Adventure Dog Ranch!

Adventure Dog Ranch is a member of the American Boarding Kennel Association, and prides themselves in strictly abiding by the Quality Canine Care Agreement. Their goal is to treat each and every dog like the dog is on vacation, providing it with fun and great care, leaving you with the peace of mind to also enjoy your vacation!

We hope you’ll browse around their site and check out their Board & Train Packages! Their new idea for an alternative to dog kennel cages is such an inspiring idea, and goes a long way to ensuring our pets have exceptional lives!

We had the pleasure of recently meeting Lisa from Gone to the Dogs, a dog blog with tons of personality and spirit! The blog is a great read for any dog owner out there, covering daily dog activities and even dock diving events! The blog specifically talks about Autism dog services and the various ways dogs work and train to become a service dog.

We hope you’ll check out Gone to the Dogs – the author of the blog is one lovely lady we’re glad we said hello to, and the posts are full of heart and inspiration!

Halloween is everywhere! Eerie Orange lights glowing from housetops and skeletons and coffins are strewn about on people lawns. It’s amazing how people have adopted this holiday and have made it their own. Down the street from us we actually have a neighbor who starts setting up his Halloween display just after Labor Day. There are coffins, skeletons, spiders, giant cobwebs and so much more lurking about his yard.

 As I sit here at my desk this morning I am reminiscing of years past and my days trick or treating. I’ll admit I did ring a doorbell or two in my day and screamed trick or treat! Where I grew up, flexibility under the Halloween costume really wasn’t an option. You see my sisters and I grew up in upstate New York and it wasn’t always about being cute or scary on Halloween, it was about being warm because almost every year our first snowfall started on no other date but Halloween night! Yeah, Mom dressed us up like the Michelin Man and out the door we rolled! At least 1 pair of long johns, stretchy knit pants, jeans and if we were experiencing a warm Halloween; no snow pants! Our best costumes usually consisted of being a scarecrow or a mummy because it offered us the best opportunity to be toasty warm and still be able to tell what we were! Being from the country, we always headed into town to do our begging for candy and it was always an enjoyable evening out and when we came home we all had toasty hot cocoa and marshmallows waiting for us.

At Bisket Baskets, we have really enjoyed this year’s Halloween season. We designed several new Halloween gifts and they have been selling like hotcakes! Looking at all the candy included and having gifts that include everyone’s favorite candy like Reese’s and M&M’s it’s no wonder. I’ve actually been thinking of staying home this Halloween and let my Granddaughter and her Mom just go out. I’d be willing to stay warm at home pass out the candy at our house and enjoy a Halloween Gift Basket just for me instead!

Now that all those candy filled pillow sacks are about to be arriving home filled with suckers, candy bars, apples and more, we want to be sure you all remember that chocolate is dangerous for dogs! So if you want to spoil Fido this Halloween, Bisket Baskets offers safe pet treats – check them out at our Halloween Pet Gift Baskets page. So please remember to sort your candy safely and stash the really good stuff with chocolate up high so Fido won’t get into it. If you haven’t read the “Five Ways to Keep Your Pet Safe on Halloween Day, by Paul Mann” it’s not too late. Check it out at the All Dog Blog.

Pumpkin Eater Dog Gift by Bisket Baskets

We all love and cherish our pets. Sure, we may get frustrated at them when they munch on our favorite shoes and don’t always listen, but they’re a part of our family and give us so much love and warmth. We treasure our pets and work to care for them from being a puppy to an adult dog.

Nizhoni Pet Photography understands how important our pets are, and works to capture the unique personality of your pet in their beautiful pet photos. Amanda DeMarree is the very talented photographer behind these great pet photos, and Ken DeMarree is the assistant photographer at Nizhoni Pet Photography.

Take a look around the Nizhoni Pet Photography website, and the pet photos in their “Galleries” section are sure to have your eyes glued to your computer screen! The photos capture the nature of the pet in every snapshot, and their photos are so crisp and vivid. Check out their Blog for more pet photos and stories on the photo shoots! They’ve got our tail wag of approval!

We all lead very busy lives, and it’s sometimes hard to stay on top of dog-related news as much as we’d like. Doggy Blurb takes care of that – this very engaging dog and pet blog posts several times each day on dog events happening online and across the U.S. They also frequently post on important canine-related news stories that will surely spark some convo at the office watercooler, and are great to link to in your own blog posts!

Doggy Blurb does an excellent job of educating us on what’s going on in the dog world, a “dog newspaper” of sorts, and oh do we love it! Congrats Doggy Blurb on creating a space for us to read canine news, share our thoughts with other readers, and learn about events where we can meet other dog owners.

Kay’s K9s are some of the cutest and most unique dog collectibles you’ll see! Artist K. Stahler creates beautiful custom needle felted pet sculptures, brooches, magnets, keychains and more that just about perfectly resemble your pet’s look and features, and are so adorable.

These make great holiday gifts for all the pet lover’s in your life this holiday season (along with our pet gift baskets, of course!). They’re so unique, and the recipient will love that they’re handcrafted to match their dog, and not just another store bought gift. Kay’s K9s miniature replicas definitely have that “wow” factor when the recipient sees it, and they’ll remember your very thoughtful gift for years to come!

We applaud Kay’s K9s for creating such a unique canine collectible, and designing each and every one to be absolutely breathtaking!

We have yet another great dog blog to tell you about – the All Dog Blog! Erin is the author behind these wonderful posts, and her goal is to bring readers the most informative and interesting dog news, great dog products, and canine health information, and she won’t settle for a blog less than the best! She’s certainly attained “great” status in our book, we love her posts, and especially her dog “Books” section on the blog – an excellent resource for dog owners and perfect gifts for dog lover’s this holiday season.

Definitely check out “Five Ways To Keep Your Pet Safe On Halloween Day, By Paul Mann” – a very timely post for all dog owners to read before Halloween night! We hope you’ll check out All Dog Blog, and their Dog Shop, too.