Chew This Journal: An Activity Book for You and Your Dog

Would you help me welcome a new Author Sassafras Lowery to our Christmas Gift Guide Shopping for: Pets and her book Chew This Journal: An Activity Book for You and Your Dog which I was sent to review and place inside our Christmas Gift Guide.

A Doggie Bucket List to Stimulate You and Your Best Friend

“Chew This Journal is a fantastic and fun way to get to know your furry best friend…. Rescue dogs all over the globe give it FOUR paws up!” —Larissa Wohl, pet rescue expert

Part activity book and part bullet journal, Chew This Journal provides inspiration and guidance for dog lovers looking to enrich the lives of their pets.

Is your dog bored? Doesn’t have to be! From bucket lists and outings to arts and crafts Chew This Journal inspires you to spend more time with your pup.

 Chew This Journal leads you through fun activities, while creatively recording your adventures in the pages of the book. This unique journal doubles as your dog’s memory keeper and activity tracker, making it a one-of-a-kind keepsake that you and your dog complete together.

Loads of activities and training plans. Chew This Journal provides dog owners and their dogs with step-by-step instructions for over 100 activities and training plans such as:

• Crafts like paw painting flowers
• DIY treat puzzles
• No-sew beds
• Tug toys you and your dog can make together to keep, to gift to friends and family at the holidays, or even to donate to a local shelter to support dogs in need.

Don’t just spend your walks on your phone. Chew This Journal will inspire you to be more engaged in the time you and your dog have together. 

Chew This Journal will help you map training goals from practical manners (not pulling on the leash or jumping on strangers) to impressive skills like mastering urban agility and parkour skills.

With easy to follow training instructions Chew This Journal helps you create exciting weekly and monthly challenges and record your progress.

If you and your pup have enjoyed Kyra Sundance books such as  101 Dog Tricks or Family Fun Dog Activity Kit.

Meet the Author:

Sassafras Lowrey is a straight edge punk who grew up to become the 2013 winner of the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award. Sassafras’ LGBTQ+ Books: Kicked Out, Lost Boi, Roving Pack, Leather Ever After, and A Little Queermas Carol have been honored by organizations ranging from the National Leather Association to the American Library Association. 

Sassafras is an  All Star Trainer Of The Year Certified Trick Dog Instructor and  has trained and competed in sports from dog agility and rally obedience to canine parkour and tricks.

Sassafras is a member of the Dog Writers Association of America and her work has appeared in leading national dog magazines such as Dogster, The Bark, and Whole Dog Journal.

Sassafras’ collection of lyric essays Healing/Heeling debuted as the #1 New Release in Pet Essays on Amazon. Sassafras’ picture book William To The Rescue the first book in Sassafras’ Bedtime Stories For Rescue Dogs released in 2019, and her training book TRICKS IN THE CITY: For Daring Dogs and the Humans That Love Them debuted as a #1 New Release on Amazon.

Sassafras has toured widely, giving readings, workshops, and keynotes at colleges, conferences, bookstores, festivals, and squats ranging from Atlanta to Berlin to NYC to Oakland to Amsterdam on topics ranging from the epidemic of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness to Leather Storytelling and Queer Fiction.

Sassafras has taught at LitReactor and the NYC Center For Fiction, is a two-time AWP Writer to Writer Mentor, and provides writing coaching to private clients. 

Sassafras actively contributes to publications and literary journals and has been published widely in anthologies. In late 2018 Sassafras relocated to Portland, Oregon (from Brooklyn) with hir partner, and their beloved menagerie of dogs and cats.

Awards:

Lambda Literary Foundation Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Winner – 2013

Queer Hero of the Pacific North West – 2013

American Library Association Rainbow Book List (Roving Pack) – 2012

Rainbow Book Award Transgender Fiction 2nd Place Winner (Roving Pack) – 2013

Rainbow Award Honorable Mention (Leather Ever After) – 2013

National Leather Association International Writing Award Honorable Mention (Leather Ever After)- 2014

Top 100 Women. GO Magazine – 2012

Astraea Foundation Lesbian Writers Fund Honorable Mention – 2011

Lambda Literary Foundation Finalist (Kicked Out) – 2011

American Library Association Top 10 for 2011 Rainbow Project List (Kicked Out) – 2011

American Library Association Top 11 for 2011 Over The Rainbow Book List (Kicked Out)- 2011

Poets & Writers Readings & Workshops Funding – 2010

Birmingham Out Open. SHOUT Festival – 2009

Top 100 Women. GO Magazine – 2009

Portland Oregon Top Emerging Writer. In Other Words – 2004

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Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates