Dogtopia of Waco, TX Blog

How about that Buster! Well, it was a well fought competition right up to the end. We had over 400 votes in our Final Two Round and the votes were still coming in right up until the cut off! This years competition was pretty fierce and the parents were doing some serious campaigning! Buster certainly has a large fan base that is very supportive! As the lucky Grand Champion he has FIVE free days of daycare, plus a goody basket of toys and treats! I’m sure he will show his appreciation to you all with lots of lab kisses!

Thanks everyone for joining in on the madness and making Mutt Madness 2010 a blast!

Wow! Mutt Madness fans don’t play around! I thought we would be down to the last few votes this morning, but you guys must have been doing some hard core campaigning! There were over 137 more votes this morning before the contest closed at noon.

Are you ready to find out who our Final Two will be?

They will go Paw-to-Paw in the final showdown to see who the Mutt Madness Grand Champion will be.  Introducing your finalist!

Dexter

Buster

 Voting will go until noon on Monday March 29th 2010, at which time the comments will be closed. You may vote once per email address and duplicate votes will be thrown out. The best of luck to Dexter and Buster!

A big shout out to all of our participants! I know the parents worked extra hard to campaign for their pups! You guys are so awesome for participating and making this fun!

Welcome Mutt Madness fans!

Basketball has gone to the dogs and today at 12pm central time the comments will go live for round one of voting in our 2010 Mutt Madness Competition.

Rules and Regs:

You may vote for as many of the match ups as you want but you may only vote once per match up. So you can pick your favorite in match up 1, match up 2, match up 3, and match up 4. Duplicate votes for the same match up from the same name and email address will not count. Comments are sent to me for approval so they may not show up right away. Voting will end at 12pm central time Wed. the 24th in preparation of Round 2. Votes after the cut off will not be counted.

Here is our line up! Be sure to get all of your friends and family to vote…and vote wisely! Remember, winners of this round will go on to round 2 against each other. Our contestants are competing for the Mutt Madness Champion title, a five day daycare pass to Dogtopia Waco, a free spa bath, 30 minute canine massage, a bottle buddy and bundle of no bull sticks.

Match Up One

Annie the ultimate Lady Bears Fan and Piper the littlest Baylor University cheerleader!

Match Up Two

Austin supports all University of Texas sports and Buster who is considering becoming a line backer for the Baylor Bears.

Match Up Three

Koda is cheering for University of Michigan and Rascal says GO GATORS!!!

Match Up Four

Tinker Bell is a Daddy’s Girl and therefore an Oklahoma State fan all the way! Parker prefers Yale but really is in it for the love of the game.

Match Up Five

Snowball may be small but don’t undestimate this fierce little guy’s competitive spirit! He will stop at nothing this year to be the 2010 champion! Dexter is up for the challenge and say’s “HOOK ‘EM!”

Match 6

Rocky the Rockstar says SIC “EM BEARS and Coco who has a mean jump shot says Texas Longhorns are #1

Hey Mutt Madness fans!

Last night we kicked off Mutt Madness 2010 with a gathering at Dogtopia Waco! There were treats for parents and dogs, a little basketball action, raffle prizes, and pictures. Grady the Bulldog is certainly a future Basketball player. He headed straight for the basketball and began pushing it around the photo area. Rocky brought his Baylor University spirit and entered the competition that is heating up!

A BIG paws up and Thank You to our raffle contributors Crossroads Animal Clinic, T. Renault Designs, and Chaquinta Fisher. You guys ROCK!

Thanks everyone for helping us have a fun start to our Mutt Madness competition. We will accept entries until noon Monday the 22nd when the blog will open for voting.

Check out pictures of our Woofs Wags and Hoops party on our Facebook!

Caspian Rafferty by 54%

Goodness! It was a close competition with Snowball right behind him with 46%. I hope the proud parents had as much fun as we did with this competition. There was some serious campaigning going on and of course in our eyes both Caspian and Snowball are CHAMPIONS!

Caspian wins the Mutt Madness Champions Prize! A City Pets food bowl, Loofa dog, zanies stuffed bone, mutt madness basketball, 2 hour professional home cleaning by English Maids, Free 6 week obedience training course with Cedar Hill Training, Free 30 minute canine massage with Dooley Press Canine Massage, and a free day of daycare at Dogtopia! Also, a free private indoor dog park party to invite his friends (and fans) to come play for a couple of hours. Thanks again to our sponsors for these wonderful goodies! Congrats Caspian!

Mutt Madness 2009 Champion

Mr. Snowball is in the Toybox socializing, playing, and greeting. While Caspian is chasing and wrestling with his buddies in the Romper Room.

Just to show that this IS a friendly competition we do have our two champions playing a little pickup game in the Dogtopia lobby.

The “hand shake”

even doggy sports have rules

 

 

The Tip Off!

Caspian says "I've got this"

I may be short but don't count me out!

Forget basketball...where are the treats?

Wow…what a hard fought battle!  But from the Fantastic Four comes the finalist…CASPIAN AND SNOWBALL…Sic ‘em Bears! 

As the Bears fight it out amongst themselves, will the Caspianites and the Snowballers be able to have a friendly competition or will this Baylor drama forever split the green and gold? 

 The sweet taste of victory!  These two climbed (OK…maybe campaigned) their way to the top only to be faced with one, final, daunting battle…the battle for the most coveted championship of all time.  Forget about the NCAA…forget about the Big 12…this competition is for…the recognition…the glory…THE TITLE…yes, it is for the championship of the first annual MUTT MADNESS competition! (Don’t you get goose bumps just thinking about it?)

But every competitor must have the one thing that sets them apart, the backbone of their strategy…the secret to success.  Team Snowball and Team Caspian both know that it is the fans, YOU, who will cheer them to victory!   Do you have one more vote in you?  Do you believe in your team…enough?

Just to remind you of why you are here, cheering them on, here are a few pictures of your warriors as they ready themselves for the final battle…

 

Snowball works the crowd

  

Caspian has his game face on!

LET THE FINAL GAME BEGIN!      You know about the title they are playing for, you know about the fabulous prize…but to make the victory even sweeter the victor wins their very own private indoor dog park party!  What better way to celebrate.

Voting begins now and goes through 11:59pm Wednesday April 1st. All votes after midnight will not be counted, and you may only vote once per name and email address. Duplicate votes will be thrown out.  The champion will be announced on Thursday!

Best of luck!

    Here are our Fabulous Four!

OK sports fans, we tallied up the votes and have our winners for ROUND TWO!  Please vote using the comment section at the bottom of this entry.  Voting will close at 7:00pm on Monday the 30th and any votes after the polls have closed will not be counted. You may vote for one or both match ups (we encourage you to vote for both to keep in the spirit of things). Duplicate votes (same name or e-mail addresses) will only be counted once. 

Heeeeeeere’s our line up!

Match up # 1 we have Baylor vs Texas A&M with Caspian and Ranger!

Baylor Bear Fan Caspian

Aggie fan Ranger

Match up # 2 is Snowball the Baylor Bear fan vs Austin the Long Horn fan

Snowball says Sic 'em!

Austin says Hook 'em!

Just a reminder that the voting will end at midnight tonight! The voting was fast and furious yesterday so lets keep it up! I will tally the votes on Saturday morning and post the results and 2nd round that afternoon. The voting for round 2 will end on Monday at 7 p.m. and the FINAL ROUND will start on Tuesday with our winner being announced on Thursday.

Also, for those Twitter fans out there I have setup an account for Dogtopia Waco. So if you would like to follow us over there for updates, fun facts and whatever else I can think of, please do so! I’m not sure what all we can do with it yet but hopefully it will be fun! If you are not already a member, you do have to sign up in order to follow your favorite people and businesses but it is free. Just visit www.twitter.com and search for Dogtopiawaco.

Ok, we have approval to extend the voting so you have a little more time. All votes must be in by Midnight on Friday the 27th.

Also to clear up some confusion, yes you can vote for as many of the match ups as you want but you may only vote once per match up. So you can pick your favorite in match up 1, match up 2, match up 3, and match up 4. Some comments are sent to me for approval so if they don’t show up right away that is why.

Remember our contestants are playing for a goodie basket that includes: City Pets food bowl, Loofa dog, zanies stuffed bone, mutt madness basketball, 2 hour professional home cleaning by English Maids, Free 6 week obedience training course with Cedar Hill Training, Free 30 minute canine massage with Dooley Press Canine Massage, and a free day of daycare at Dogtopia!

Go Mutt Madness!!!