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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We have two wheaten terriers named Jake and Molly. We potty trained Jake when we first got him as a little bitty puppy, but he’s never mastered “lay down.” We had to drop out of obedience school because he was so naughty! And Molly has never gone to school, but she’s mastered plenty of tricks. Her favorite is spin, which she’ll do 4 or 5 times in a row for a treat!
Our dog Piper is a rescue/mix. We aren’t sure what she is but people often ask us if she is “a miniature German Shepherd” – sure! Our first trick was “come,” our favorite trick is “dance” (she loves to stand up on her hind legs), and our yet-to-master trick is “leave it” when she has found a post-run sock. I can’t wait to see the scrawny-legged “dance” she would do if she won a subscription to BarkBox!
We taught Bella, our boxer mix to shake. Baron, our English mastiff, will randomly offer his paws but can’t for the life of him learn to do it on command lol.
I would love to win this! My little dachshund would love receiving a variety of treats in the mail each month!
By unanimous decision, we determined “sit” & “paw five” (think high five) were essential , immediately taught dog tricks. While he’s got these in his repertoire, other essential like “stay”, “lay down” and “leave it” he chooses to follow off & on. Moses would LOVE to win this BarkBox subscription-fingers & paws crossed for good luck!
I have a 6 month old dachshund named Ruby. If you have ever had a dachshund, you know they don’t do tricks. Or listen. Or behave. Ever. They are SO strong willed and stubborn, but hilarious. We are trying to teach Ruby to “come” (yes, i would be happen with this basic command). She will do it if she knows I have a treat, and she knows what it means, but she can tell when I don’t have a treat. She knows what her ball is and will search the house for it if I ask her where it is. Does that count as a trick? Haha
The first trick we taught our American Bulldog, Bailey, was to sit. She still can’t quite get the hang of roll over though.
I have tried for years to teach my mini schnauzers tricks! It wasn’t until I moved in with my boyfriend that my youngest dog Jojo learned how to shake, but will only do it for my boyfriend!
My little shih tzu learned how to jump up in my arms on command within a few days. I am still very impressed!
I have an 8 year old Australian Shepherd and we recently took in a 4 year old Border Collie that needed a good home. Sit was the first thing I taught both of them. The one trick I was never able to get my Aussie to do is roll over, he will lay on his side on cue but all the way over is out of the question even with a food lure. Ha! My BC is learning basic obedience skills that she didn’t learn as a puppy and she’s doing so good so far, but we spend most of our time getting socialized and learning that strangers aren’t all that bad. =)
“Sit” was probably Shadow’s first trick, but “roll over” is her favorite… so she can get tummy rubs. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
My dog is a boxer so her snout is short and she can never let a treat balance there!
we taught both our pups how to sit but neither of them could master stay 😛
Morton learned how to sit really quickly. Being a German Shepherd/Lab mix, he’s really smart. He’s too smart for his own good. We have a sequence of 6 tricks that we ask him to do (often in the same order) and sometimes he will move on to the next sequential trick before we have asked him to do it. It cracks me up!
I taught my puppy Zoe ‘sit’ for her first command – we’ve been working on paw, down and stay but she doesn’t always listen when I use ‘here’, especially when she’s distracted!
My dog Bowser knows how to high five 🙂
Julie – I just love Sadie – she is so cute and your alls interaction has definitely inspired me to take my Finny (pitbull mix) on many runs and adventures with me. Sleepy face always follows after 🙂
Finn first learned to sit. Actually, he already knew it when I got him LOL! He was 4 months old and he knew as soon as any food or treats were around – to just put his butt on the ground. I did teach him “shake” or “high-five” next, which he also mastered quite quickly. Growing up I had a couple of dogs in my family who all could “roll over” – however, after multiple attempts with Finn – he was not able to quite get it. That’s ok – I still love him 🙂 Hope you are enjoying Charlotte!
Bentley learned how to high five, which was funny bc he is so small it was like a low five
Bentley never quite mastered how to roll over…he’d get 1/2way there!
We started with the basics (sit, stay, etc.). She never learned any really cool tricks, but she can do doggy push ups!
Our pup learned the basics first.. sit, lay, shake, and sometimes stay, unless you go out of sight!
I have a 7 year old Amstaff named Mulder who is pretty good with tricks and has always wanted to try BarkBox! The first trick he ever learned was sit(boring but true!) and the trick he could never master was playing dead!
I have a Weimaraner named Grover and his first trick was learning to high-five! It’s funny though because he still doesn’t know how to lay down.
Clyde mastered sit and playing fetch very early on and not much else after that. We tried to teach him lay down and he’s not that good at it. We did successfully teach him to ring a bell tied to the front door with his nose to go out though, so that’s probably his most impressive trick 🙂
We have a siberian husky, Koda, that we have had since he was 6 weeks old. The first thing we taught him was how to use the bell on the door to let us know he had to go out. He was a fast learner and can now rollover, sit, high 10, shake…his least favorite command is to stay. Sometimes he will listen but if a person or other animal are involved, he must say hi.
Our dogs first trick was to ring the bell on the door when they need to go outside. That has since backfired because they ring the bell for everything now. They ring it to go out and pee, play, sunbathe, get supper, or to simply get the other dog off the couch to steal their toy. Little stinkers.
We taught him to sit because it was the easiest haha….and he hates being on his back so he never learned how to roll over! Wrigley would love BarkBox!
The first trick we learned was not to go potty inside 🙂 So close to “get the newspaper” but still so much slobber… 🙂
Great giveaway! My dog-child would love it. It’s not a trick per-say but Juneau has never been very well behaved on her leash. I think she knows better, but her big stubborn ego makes her think she can be in charge and sniff whatever/wherever she wants for however long she wants.
My two dogs both learned to “sit” first. We have a pool and now I am trying to teach them to “shake” when they get out of it to help with the drying off process. It is a work in progress! 🙂
The first trick I taught Duchess was “Sit, down, sneak!” She would sit, then crouch down, then inch along the floor in a ‘sneaky’ manner! But I’ve never been able to teach her to ‘stay’! She always starts barking and whining when I walk away and then comes running after me!!
Our little pup tucker would love bark box! we just rescued him April 1st and his first trick was the typical “sit” We are trying to master “Shake” but he hasn’t quite got that yet. 🙂
I have an 8 year old black lab mix and his first trick was giving high fives!
We just adopted a dog recently so we haven’t gotten much in to tricks but at puppy training school they taught us “spin”.
The first trick we taught our pup was to sit and
was to sit and drink water out of a cup! weird! i know she did it on her own.
The trick we cannot get through to her is to roll over on command! she will roll in the grass for hours and slide down the hills but if you ask her to roll over she will give you the side face look like we have a hundred heads!
I have thought about getting Barkbox for our dog for a while. He gets enough toys shipped from Amazon that he already assumes boxes that arrive are for him…so he would love this 🙂 We started with the basics, like sit, when we first got him. Sadie is such a cutie and looks like she is loving her new home!
First trick was sit. A trick our dog will never be able to master is anything involving not eating food, such as “leave it” when you see a chicken bone on the sidewalk, or placing a treat on the floor and waiting for release command before she can eat it, or placing a treat on her nose or anything.
Bosley’s first exciting trick was shaking with alternate paws. We could never really get “roll over”. The tricks in our house are not exceedingly complicated, but he does play a great game of fetch!
The first trick I taught my dog, Skip, was high-five. He’s an overly stubborn beagle, so we’ve never really mastered the bring-back aspect of fetch.
We adopted our dog Jackson at the pound a few months ago. We finally taught him how to give a “paw shake” and play a good game of fetch but he hasnt quite mastered the rolling over yet! He would absolutely LOVE a box full of toys and treats!
Duncan quickly learned how to sit and lay down for any delicious doggie treat. I was supposed to teach him a trick for training class… had no success with “roll over”!
Lua’s first trick was a spin. We’ve improved to some more impressive ones since then. These days she’s very good at catching frisbees. Glad to hear she’s not the one who hasn’t mastered roll over.
My dog’s first trick was sit. She’s 9 now, and I still can’t get her to roll over!
“Sadie is the kind of dog that basically pees herself over a brand new stick […]”
Hahaha, I love the way you write–you are hilarious! And Sadie is absolutely adorable!
My corgi cannot dance without barking….as soon as I tell her to dance she spins and barks at the same time.
I have two Weimaraners – Bailey (male) who is 10 and Chloe who is 2. Both of them have learned how to balance treats on their noses and then catch them in their mouths. I am still trying to teach Chloe how to “roll over”. Bailey has mastered it, but Chloe’s definitely got a ways to go!
The first trick Brooks learned was “shake” and although he mastered roll over, now he only does it when there is a realllly good treat being offered:)
My furbaby’s first trick was the classic “sit”. Her best though is giving high-fives!
We have a black & tan miniature, short-haired dachshund named Peanut, and my husband brought home a yellow lab mix puppy (on Easter Sunday) named Jackson. Peanut learned to sit up pretty early on (dachshunds are really good at this….it’s probably the short legs). Jackson….well, Jackson is a puppy, and it’s been a long time since I’ve had a puppy, and I had forgotten how much work they are. Jackson’s best trick is chewing everything. in. site. It’s frustrating, but he’s so darn cute, I can’t get but so mad at him. He just better grow out of it, or we won’t have anything without bite marks on it! 🙂
The first trick I taught my dog was to stay! He is a chihuahua and as a puppy, it was nearly impossible to catch him and put him in his cage before leaving for work. He has never understood “roll over”
I wish my Lab Lucy could master a trick! She is pretty good at sitting and laying down when she knows that there is a treat in it!