We received over 60 entries to our most recent contest where we asked folks to send in their dog to be immortalized in our Small Dog plastic dog collection. One of the many things that I’ve learned while working at Small Dog Electronics is not only do we have the best customers in the world, but our customers have the best dogs in the world! The pictures and stories that were sent in were fantastic, and choosing two out of 60 was really tough.
Before we looked at the entries, we came up with some criteria:
- We wanted to make sure that we covered as many different dog breeds as possible in our collection
- We wanted to make sure that we selected dogs who might be recognizable either because of unique shape or coloring
- We needed to make sure that the dogs that we chose would be easy to mold
We then sifted through the collection of submissions, got teary-eyed reading through the obviously loving stories of your submissions, and narrowed down our selection to a handful of the entries who best met our criteria. We then looked at that group and chose two who in some way either moved us emotionally by their picture OR by the impact of their stories.
And the winners are…
Julie Rigby’s dog, Favor, who just stole our hearts with such a photogenic face and
Chandra Aubery’s dog, Apache, who is honored posthumously and has a wonderful mask.
Thank you to everyone who entered and for sharing the love that you have for your companions. We really do have the best customers who have the world’s best dogs!
We’ll be posting all the entires on our Flickr site next week when we get spare moment. Visit our Flickr page here.