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One of my very favorite places online to buy dog supplies of all kinds is SitStay, a business selling toys, crates, good quality food.. well, actually everything they sell is good quality. Darcie and Kent run the place, though arguably their dogs do, from the occasional references to the dogs you see at the site.

Anyway, I went there for something yesterday, when I wasn’t glued to the television watching the inauguration, and found that they had had an active response to all the positive energy. Here’s what Darcie says:

Beginning January 20, 2009, Inauguration Day, we’re starting our own “First 100 Days” countdown to celebrate the first 100 days of the new administration. We’ll use any excuse to have some fun and help you save money. We’ll have new items in this category every day that will be 15% off. They’ll only be on special for just that one day. We’ll change them out every day around 10:00 PM Central time. So, spread the word and check back each day!

I like to buy from other small businesses as much as possible, when they offer quality and good prices, as SitStay does.

Take a look… this link takes you right to the page:

100 Days of Specials at SitStay.com. 15% Off!

One of my favorite places to shop for dog items online is Sitstay. I’ve mentioned it before, and there’s a link to its clearance page on the sidebar of this blog. As a longtime small business owner myself, I love supporting other small businesses when I can, provided they offer quality at good prices. Sitstay does. I’ve always been very pleased with the things I’ve bought there.

They are also dog owners and real dog lovers themselves. It’s a family business, and I suspect that some of the inventory ends up going to the dogs!

The other day, someone emailed me with a question about getting good quality puppy toys, and I wrote back and just said: go to sitstay. She wrote me back after taking a look at the site and said she was going to have a lot of fun shopping there.

So what sort of things are there? They sell dog crates, leashes, clickers, and other training tools. Lots of toys, selected for quality.

Here are links to some of their sections:

• Diet and Nutrition
• Health Fitness recommendations
•  DVD & Books

They have a special going… actually, I *think* it’s a year-round deal:

Use Promotion Code DOGLOVER and save 10% on your next order.
(Just clicking on DOGLOVER will take you right to the site.)

Where do you get your dog supplies? If you are like many people, you do some shopping online for dog beds, leashes, toys, car seats, and all the other things you may want for your dog or dogs. It’s more convenient — well, unless you happen to live right near a big box store for pets! But even then, there is so much variety online that you can get exactly what you want. If you live in a remote area or have small children (or puppies) that keep you home, online shopping is better too. I’ve used it a lot myself, getting many of my own dog supplies from eBay, Sitstay.com and a few other places.

So a while ago, I started another website, Online-Dog-Resources.Com. So far it’s mostly resources from eBay, organized into categories… It uses “datafeeds” from eBay, so the listings are current every time someone goes to a page. I used to be a librarian, and I do love to organize information! I include some tips for buying on eBay, such as how to register and get the hang of eBay, how to evaluate sellers, and more. It’s really amazing what you can find there. Often the prices are really low, though you do have to be a bit watchful.

I just mentioned Sitstay.com… it couldn’t be more different from eBay, and I like it a lot too. A family-run business in Nebraska, they carefully test every product they carry. There are discussion boards and some dog training articles written by one of the owners of the business, herself a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, as am I. So far, I only have one link to them over at my new site, to Clearance items at SitStay.com. A good place to start looking around!

I’m planning to add lots more resources, from a variety of online stores, over time.

To get to my new site, Online-Dog-Resources.Com, just click on the dog at the computer! I didn’t draw it… it’s clipart that I have the right to use, and every time I look at it, it makes me smile. I wonder which of my dogs will be the first to push me away from the computer and take over!

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