A Photo Contest From SPARKLES THE FIRE SAFETY DOG!

When I introduced you to Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog last week I forgot to mention that she loves, loves, loves to have fun with her friends and because of that she is inviting everyone to play along with her in a photo contest!

Sparkles would like every two-legger to take a picture of their four-legged friend or child with the cover of the July issue of Cesar's Way Magazine (or the article about Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog) and your name will go into a drawing to win some very special items to help keep you and your family safe!

A random drawing will be held to select one winner who will receive one of the very first copies of the revision of Sparkles' children's fire safety book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, due to be released in July! The book will be autographed by Children's Author Firefighter Dayna Hilton and "pawtographed" by Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog!

The winner will also receive a Talking Combination Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm from our good friends at First Alert! Woof!

As soon as your picture is ready, send your photo along with the name of your four-legged or two-legged friend to sparklesATsparklesthefiresafetydogDOTcom (include "Cesar's Way Magazine" in the subject line) OR upload your photo on Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog's Facebook page. One entry per person. All countries welcome! Drawing to be held June 31, 2010.

Psssst....Daisy has already submitted her photo and she hopes all of her furriends will too! Woof! Woof!

Introducing ... Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog!

Hello Everyone,

I would like to introduce you to a very special friend of mine, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog and Firefighter Dayna who share fire safety rules to children across the country and I hope you will find them to be as entertaining and as courageous as I do!

Read their latest news, written by Sparkle's mom, below:

Seven years ago, I was surfing the internet looking to add a Dalmatian to our family and found “Daisy” on the Dalmatian Assistance League of Tulsa website. Never in a million years did I ever dream that that would be the beginning of our journey in the fire service together. We have been blessed with having so many amazing to share the fire safety message far and wide to millions of children and their caregivers.

Thanks to Cesar Millan and everyone at Cesar’s Way Magazine, Sparkles’ story will be shared in a three page spread in the July issue of the magazine. We couldn’t be more honored and excited! And, the icing on the cake is that the magazine will also include fire safety tips. This means more to Sparkles and me more than anything. Helping save the lives of children and their caregivers, reducing injuries and decreasing property loss from fire, that is our mission. Every fiber of our being is dedicated to helping keep everyone safe!

Sparkles and I would like to share a very special thank you with Rick Markham, the writer of Sparkles’ inspirational story. Rick, we appreciate you more than you know and we enjoyed the whole experience so very much!

According to his website, Cesar has been called a Dr. Phil for dogs, and for good reason. Cesar's amazing rehabilitations of aggressive, scared, lazy, compulsive, and jealous dogs captured the national spotlight when his National Geographic Channel (NGC) series Dog Whisperer premiered in September 2004. Regular viewers soon came to realize it wasn't the dogs but the quirky owners who needed Cesar's help the most. In January 2006, Dog Whisperer returned for a primetime second season with expanded hour-long episodes.

The issue will be out on the shelves in a couple of weeks. We would love to hear what you think about the article!