I know a bunch of you out there are just as dog-obsessed as I am and this is just one of the many reasons I think you guys are the jam. Dogs are the BEST and I never could have imagined just how much joy and laughter Sadie would bring into my life everyday when Ryan and I first picked up our timid little puppy. (Timid? Oh how times have changed.)
When BarkBox reached out to me to see if my crazy dog would want to try out one of their boxes, I thought it would be a neat way to indulge Sadie a bit with some new treats and toys. Sadie is the kind of dog that basically pees herself over a brand new stick, so I could only imagine how thrilled she would be if she got a package in the mail filled with new treats and toys just for her.
So what is BarkBox?
BarkBox is a monthly box filled with treats, toys and goodies for your dog that is delivered right to your door. Each box contains four to six full-size products, with goodies ranging from creative toys and gadgets to all-natural, healthy treats and more.
Any edible products found in a BarkBox do not include formaldehyde and are made with minimal processing, no glycerin whenever possible, organic ingredients whenever possible and are gluten, soy, corn and filler-free whenever possible. Subscribers can also opt for an allergy-friendly BarkBox for dogs that may be sensitive to beef, chicken, turkey, gluten, wheat, soy and corn. (Users will just need to email support@barkbox.com once they’ve purchased their subscription to get added to the allergy box list.)
The toys and treats are almost always sourced from small local vendors that are not easily found in major pet stores and plans tailored to your dog’s size start as low as $18/month.
Sadie’s first BarkBox included the following goodies:
- Barkworthies Junior Bully Sticks
- Harry Barket Tug n’ Toss Toy
- Complete Natural Nutrition Cheese Please Snacks
- Baker’s Best Salmon Maple Glaze Treats
Her favorite treat was definitely the Cheese Please snacks!
She gave me the pitiful puppy eyes the minute she caught a whiff after I opened the bag!
The sole ingredient in the treat is cheese, so I knew Sadie would flip for the cheesy little discs when I opened the package. (She’s a cheese lover just like her mama.)
She also had a blast playing with the Tug n’ Toss toy and threw it all around our apartment trying to entice us into a game of tug of war. (It totally worked because we are suckers.)
The treat I wasn’t sure Sadie would like in the box was the Baker’s Best salmon maple teats because at first glance they looked like biscuits. Sadie doesn’t like biscuits and typically gravitates toward meat and cheese-based treats, so I didn’t think the salmon treats would go over well, but she flipped for them!!
She couldn’t get enough!
Now it’s time for a giveaway!
One PBF reader will win a free six-month subscription to BarkBox!
To enter this giveaway, please leave a comment below answering one (or both) of the following questions:
- What was the first trick you taught your dog?
- What is one trick your dog could never quite master?
I will randomly select a giveaway winner on Friday morning. Please note that this giveaway is open to readers in the US and Canada only. You must have a US or Canada shipping address to receive a BarkBox. If you would like to try BarkBox for your pup, BarkBox is also offering 10 percent off to all PBF readers if you click this link. (The coupon will automatically apply at checkout.)
Good luck!!!
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Disclaimer: While this post is sponsored by BarkBox, the links included within the post are not affiliate links and I am not earning commission or credit from any boxes purchased.
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Great giveaway! I’ve been wanting to try BarkBox!! First thing I taught my adorable weenie dog, Lucy, was sit! She can now sit, lay, shake and sit up on her hind legs! Crawling and rolling over proved to be too much work for her though! 🙂
Goose first learned “sit”.. but has not quite mastered “stay” yet. Or he can stay as long as he feels like, I guess!
The first trick was sit, if that’s a trick. If not, it was how to shake hands/paws. The one trick he simply can’t do is putting a treat on his nose and having him wait to flip it in the air and eat it. He just can’t handle it! My childhood dog could do it, so I don’t think it would be so hard, but it apparently is!
The first trick my dog learned was sit, like most dogs. She is almost a year so we are still working on some of the harder ones. She would love the Bark Box!
my dog would be “small and cute”! such a cute idea this is! his name is tanner, a maltipoo that I could never get to master swimming! If I hold him above the pool he starts to “swim” in the air with his little legs, but as soon as I lower him, he goes nuts and wants out right away!
The one trick my dog, Emma, still can’t master is roll over. When I tell her to, she lays on her side and puts one paw up. Since she is so cute, I still have to give her a treat for the effort 🙂
The first trick I taught my dog was “sit”. I unknowingly raised a fist to my chest every time I said it and so now she responds better to that hand signal than the actual words. Oops. She’s five now so I don’t think I can change it!
Yay I’ve always wanted to try BarkBox out but just haven’t taken the leap to try it. Wrigley’s first trick was to sit. He has the worst ADD and sit was the easiest. We still can’t quite master the “Stay before you eat your treat” trick. He lovessss treats so asking him to stay before he gets ‘released” to eat it is like asking Beyonce to stop singing lol
I love posts about Sadie! My Weimaraner, Bailey quickly learned the basic commands of sit, stay, down but she struggles with balancing a great on her nose and waiting for the okay to bounce it into her mouth. She would be pretty excited to win a BarkBox.
My dog Dora is super smart, but she has absolutely no interest in learning any tricks. She’s smart and super stubborn. 🙂
The first trick we taught our girl Molly was “high ten” with her front paws. She is amazing at it. We are still working on “drop,” she loves a tug and thinks every toy is meant for tug of war. Luckily she gets a lot of practice and is constantly impressing her puppy friends with her mighty tug skills 🙂
The first trick Gil learned was sit – started with the basics! Not sure if this counts – as he has just recently mastered it – but it took him 3 years to learn to shake. I’ve never had a dog that had so much trouble with that one – but finally a trainer showed us a trick to teaching him and now he does it!
We got our dog, Biscuit, just a few months ago from a local shelter. The first trick we taught her was sit. Now she knows how to sit, lay down, jump up, roll over, shake, and high five! It is so fun teaching her new tricks! We are working on play dead right now and she hasn’t quite gotten the hang of it yet.
Henry first learned Sit but has never quite been able to understand Roll Over
My foxhound Pixie’s tricks are sit and paw. “Down” is probably hard for her to master since she’ll just barely do it if were bring a treat down low to the ground. She loves tug of war and would love that red rope toy!
We taught our black lab Grady sit & high five at first and then worked up to roll over Now that he is 100lbs when you tell him roll over he cant quite get his whole body to flip, so he spins in circles and then pretends like that was what we were actually asking him to do.
Ozzie’s first trick was sit and he never quite mastered roll over! Oh well!
I got my little chihuahua almost 10 years ago now. She didn’t learn anything until my husband started coming around. First, sit and now she can do up and around and sit on only her hind legs too!
I cannot get my pup, Dixie, to roll over! She gets confused after the lay down part and gives up!
Miley and Bailey both learned “sit” as the first trick. They both can “down” and “rollover” fairly consistently, but “stay” is the trick neither one can/wants to master!
Our pup mastered Speak first. Since then, he has learned to shake, dance, rollover and jump through a hula hoop. I think the one thing he will never master is Stay, as he wants to chase every bicycle and chipmunk that walks down the street!
Alana’s first trick was sit. She has learned a lot of other tricks and is so smart, yet, she will not bark on command for anything!!
Madison’s first trick was probably sit! Our latest trick is trying to get her to put her toys back in the toy box. She’s starting to catch on!
My dog’s first trick was sit and she does come almost always when she is called. Other than that she has taught me all kinds of tricks – when to get up, when to let her out, when to do whatever she needs……
I love when my dog will sit and stay until I tell him to go (even when there is a treat sitting across the room)!
Since we also have a vizsla who will do anything to make us happy, Clementine picked up tricks pretty fast. The first trick she ever learned though is pretty unique. My husband and I like to touch the notch on each other’s noses. So, we thought it would be cute if we could get Clemmie to do the same, and touch her nose to our nose (kind of like an eskimo kiss). We call the command “notch,” and she learned it as an itty bitty puppy. She still does it to this day, and it melts my heart every time.
There are some tricks she still can but REFUSES to master. She refuses to lie on her back, so the command “bang” is pretty hilarious. All she will do is drop her hip and then stare at us like we are crazy people as we say bang over and over again. Her personality shines in her defiance of doing this trick.
We are moving this week, and I know Clemmie would feel a lot more at home with a wonderful BarkBox to greet her in her new town!
The first trick we taught Summer was to shake. That and sit are the only tricks she has mastered in 4 years but she is the perfect pup!
First trick I ever taught Duke was paw and he can never get how to speak like his brother Fletcher!
The first trick we taught Zuzu (a greyhound/lab mix) was to bark “I love you.”
Okay, she doesn’t actually say the words, but she will mimic the sound of your voice saying it to her! It’s awesome!
And the trick she could never quite master was the “treat on the nose” …she gets too excited and eats it!
The first trick we taught our dog was to keep a treat on his nose until we tell him to “go get it!”. Now he can keep 10+ treats on his nose!!
First trick I taught my dogs was sit and lay down. They also mastered rolling over in like 5 mins! Can’t get them to play dead yet.
The first trick I taught my pup was to sit and lay naturally followed, but he’s hit or miss with stay. Sometimes it seems like he gets it, but others it’s like he can’t be bothered. He’s got an independent streak!
First trick I taught Winnie was “sit.” She finally got “Bang Bang” (plays dead), but it took us quite awhile to master that one!
The first trick my little IG learned was “sit”, and he never has been able to exactly master “shake”. He will sometimes do it but with the wrong paw!
The first trick that our dog, Waffles, learned was to walk on his hind legs- so cute!
My dog loves to shake and play dead but can’t seem to learn to stay 🙂
OMG Truckee would LOVE this!!!! I’ve been eyeing this for a while! The first trick I taught her was to “shake” except now it has evolved to “high five” and most recently, she just works her way up into a “hug” 🙂
my mom likes to dress up her little dog, and what started as an occasional thing has now become a twice-daily routine. so now our dog walks to her pile and nudges the pjs she wants to wear and in the morning she nudges the dress she wants. its the cutest/weirdest thing.
Sit was our first trick. Never mastered stay!!
I taught my almost two-year old chocolate lab Rooney how to come when called (always important), but he’s still struggling with fun tricks like handshakes and roll over. As long as he’s got the basics!
I’ve been wanting to try Barkbox for my 1.5 year old mutt, Bella!
What was the first trick you taught your dog?
Sit – Bella has always been so excitable and wiggly. We needed to immediately teach her something to make her take a chill pill.
What is one trick your dog could never quite master?
Roll over – When told to roll over, Bella lays on flat on her side and spins her head around in circles. From her perspective, it probably looks like she’s rolling. From our perspective, she looks like a fish flapping on land.
“Down” was the first trick we taught Leo (10 month black lab). He learned that early on! He still hasn’t mastered roll over though!
While this is not exactly something we TAUGHT my Shih Tzu, he learned from early on as a puppy to hit the fridge with his paw when he wants a snack. I am not sure why he hits the fridge since his food and snacks are not in there, but I must say he is pretty smart because he always gets a snack when he does it. 🙂
I don’t know if this is really a trick but my dog knows how to play hide n seek. She’s really good at it! That’s how we keep her entertained on rainy nights or blizzards:)
My pup’s first trick was to sit, of course. She progressed to laying down and rolling over and now if she really wants a treat she does all three in a row! Over and over again…
The first trick I taught my dog (Leroy Brown) was to sit, he never got the hang of down, but his BEST trick that I taught him is when he is impatient or exasperated he makes a “PFFT” noise to get our attention. Also, I created a monster.
Harley the beagle has mastered “go get your ball”. However, since she is a hound she just can’t manage leave it when it comes to food – if something smells good she isn’t waiting.
I taught my lab to sit, lay down, and stay when I first got her. Teaching her to shake and rollover has not happened despite numerous efforts and treats!
The first trick my dog ever learned was how to sit (and she’s still a champ at that)…but her coolest trick is her new one! We have trained her to swim out and pull in our floating (beer) cooler. So yes, my dog can bring me a beer 🙂 My sweet girl hasn’t quite mastered shake quite yet though.
Like most dog owners, sit, stay, and come were all pretty important (essential) first tricks. But, as for the more entertaining stuff, my weimaraner has now mastered the balance-a-treat-on-your-nose-until-told-“ok” trick while my crazy german shorthaired pointer is so eager to get the treat that the “shake” trick is still more like a slap. Eh, shake/slap, same difference, right? Change it from shake to high five and he has it down pat!