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New PetBook Photo Contest Winners

Submitted by Community Manager, February 25, 2010
Rosie, Belle and Ortiz
CLICK HERE to enter the latest PetBook photo contest.

The results are in for the latest annual AAA PetBook® Photo Contest sponsored by Best Western. Five top dogs from Massachusetts, California and Colorado will enjoy a year of fame as “cover dogs” on the 12th edition Traveling With Your Pet: The AAA PetBook.

First-place winners Rosie, Belle and Ortiz, a family of mixed-breed dogs from Fairhaven, Mass., are pictured on the book’s back cover visiting the Cape Cod Canal. “We travel with our pets because they are our family and we enjoy traveling with them,” said the winners’ human companion, Wendy Russell.

The second-place winner, Jack, a labradoodle from Santa Cruz, Calif., appears on the book’s spine visiting Monument Valley in Utah. “Jack is such a great traveling companion, both on the road and in hotels,” said owners Susan and Howard Schwartz. “He makes Jack at Monument Valleyfriends with just about everyone.”

The cover features Yukon Jack, an Alaskan malamute from Bayfield, Colo., visiting the scenic Otter Cliffs at Acadia National Park in Maine. The photo was submitted in a previous year by owner Lisa Bourque who enjoys traveling with Yukon Jack because, “He is a people magnet and he thoroughly enjoys seeing many parts of the country. He goes wherever we go.”

Since many of us view our pets as full-fledged family members and want to hit the road with our canine or feline companions, Traveling with Your Pet: The AAA PetBook® provides listings for more than 13,000 pet-friendly AAA Approved lodgings and campgrounds in the U.S. and Canada.

Yukon Jack in Acadia National ParkThe detailed lodging listings include fees, permitted pet sizes and conditions of stay for properties at every Diamond Rating level including -- for pampered pets -- AAA Five Diamond Award® hotels. The book also includes information about pet-friendly activities, planning tips, travel safety and, for those who love the great outdoors, more than 400 AAA Rated pet-friendly campgrounds. The 11th edition of the PetBook is currently available  at many AAA and CAA offices, better bookstores and at BarnesandNoble.com.  The 12th edition will be available in May. The cover price is $17.95 U.S.

The next photo contest opens in May and contest rules and entry forms as well as pet-friendly travel tips and a photo gallery of entrants can be accessed at www.AAA.com/PetBook. Contest prizes vary, including cash, copies of the book and a Best Western Travel Card® usable at more than 1,900 pet-friendly properties worldwide.

Read more inside scoop (wince) on the contest from a AAA staffer in last year's announcement here.

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Comments (7)

Submitted by Pam, March 9. 2010 08:10
Dear Wendy and Peter,

Your beautiful family, Rosie, Belle and Ortiz are so photogenic. I'm sure u r both so proud of your "children" with love and kisses, pammy
Submitted by Erma, March 9. 2010 12:52
How do you get three dogs to pose for a beautiful picture like that?
Submitted by Deborah Alves, March 9. 2010 17:55
Wendy and Peter,
Your dogs are the cutest . I need to know your secret on how they sit so well and Wendy your a great photographer I would love a copy of this picture and how do I go about getting the book that they are on? Is it for AAA members only?
Submitted by Laurie Peterson, March 10. 2010 09:59
The 12th edition will be available in May at many AAA and CAA offices, better bookstores and at BarnesandNoble.com. The cover price is $17.95 U.S.for non-AAA members, members receive a discount.
Submitted by Richard, June 25. 2010 09:11
Nice shots, really cute doggies. We miss our JRT loads
Submitted by Lauren, September 13. 2010 20:52
Is there a 2008 Petbook Photo Contest Photo Gallery posted anywhere?
The pictures are sensational. (I did see the 2009)
I entered in 2008 and never saw the winners.
Submitted by Ellen Cain, September 14. 2010 11:25
Thanks for your comment about the AAA PetBook Photo Contest winners. You’re correct that the current photo gallery shows winners and runners up from the 2009 contest; the photos are also contained in the center insert in the 12th edition of the publication. We update the online gallery each February to show the current winners and runners up, so 2008 contest photos are no longer available for viewing online. However, the center insert in the annual publication remains as a record of each contest, so if you have access to the 11th edition Traveling With Your Pet: The AAA PetBook, see the center insert for photos from the 2008 contest. (Limited quantities of the previous edition are available at some AAA/CAA clubs and online at bn.com, but we always recommend using the latest edition for up-to-date travel information.) If you travel with a pet this year or in the future, we hope you’ll enter the contest again – before the Nov. 30 deadline. Contest rules, entry forms and the judging criteria are available on AAA.com/PetBook.

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