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Share the Puppy Love This Valentine’s Day

Or alternatively, offer your customers the chance to get intimate with a cow.

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January 20, 2025

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Share the Puppy Love This Valentine’s Day

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Valentine’s Day is essentially about showing the love, and that goes for our less fortunate animal friends as well, and in particular the dogs we claim are our best friends. This year, could you work with a local rescue to help find homes for pups in need of a new “parent”? O er a V-Day gift card to encourage the matchmaking under the campaign theme “Puppy Love.” Alternatively, if you have a small yard, consider setting up a kissing booth with a calf and inviting people to take photos under the banner “I Kissed a Cow and I Liked It.” Charge $5 for a chance to play, with all proceeds going to an animal welfare group. We can see this one going viral!

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