Companies I contacted today

Okay so I'm trying to upgrade my three dog's food from the normal store brand sorta dog food (with ground corn as 1st ingredient) up to a more premium sorta dog food.

With that in mind, I did a Swag bucks search for FREE Dog Food samples and coupons.

I've already contacted Iams dog food and found out that Chicken or Beef was the first ingredient in their dog foods and that the animal by products are ONLY Organ meat (no crazy fillers like beaks, hooves, chicken feet, or feathers)

The customer service representative I talked with was VERY knowledgable about their products and after asking some basic questions about my dogs Pixie (1 and 1/2 yr old Chiweenie aka Dachshund/Chiwawa mix) Niaha (senior dog about 9 yrs old Heinz 57 mix) and Angel (senior 9 yr old Dachshund) She recommended the Iams® Premium Protection™ Senior Dog for the two older dogs because it had glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate for their joints and to make them less stiff in the morning. She recommended the Iams® Premium Protection™ Adult Dog for Pixie.

The representative let me know that Iams stands behind their product 100% for example if your dog turns its nose up at their product and won't eat it at all or if there is any sorta problem with the food, they will send out a replacement voucher or Refund your money. I thought that was just a really cool thing for Iams to do and it set my mind to ease about trying their products on my dogs.

She also let me know that you can request coupons from Iams once every 3 months, so I'm going to be marking the August 30 on my calendar to be calling Iams back up for some more coupons.

I also called Purina today and explained I was looking for better food than what I was feeding my dogs now. I asked for coupons and any samples they could send me. No on the samples but was promised coupons to arrive shortly to my address. :-)

I also inquired on how often you could request coupons and the representative told me I could call once a month to get more coupons. That's good since I'll probably be getting the largest bag of the dog food to last the month and will need more coupons towards the end of the month. :-)


The last company I called about coupons was Poise. I have a relative who has a moderate bladder control problem and I was looking for coupons to help her out. BTW the Whoopi Goldberg commercials are hilarious in my opinion. :-)

I was able to score some REALLY cheap 3 Poise 20 pack pads at CVS for ONLY $1.47 each the other day. I spent around $4 for 3 of the Poise pads, 1 of the 60 count CVS size 3 diapers, and 8 of the Air Wick single oil warmer refills after using all my Airwick Qs and the $5/$25 CVS purchase coupon AND I made $10 ECBs since I had a Raincheck for the Airwick merchandise.

I love my CVS manager The Raincheck was for the Airwick 2 pack oil warmer refills but the only ones they carried were the lavender ones (YUCK have had enough of that scent)So she let me get the singles that were on sale $2/5 and said I could get the ECBs as long as I bought $20 in Airwick merchandise. So YAY me I got the $10 ECBs and only spent around $4 for it. :-)

Anyways back to the Poise conversation I had with the representative, she promised to send me coupons for my relative. So a pretty productive coupon day.

So remember those 1-800 customer service numbers are there for a reason, utilize them to get coupons. Its one of those if you don't ask for them, you never know if you will be given coupons or not till you ask for them.

Remember every call to a customer service line doesn't have to be a gripe or complaint about a product. I've gotten coupons from companies for singing their praises and letting the company know how much I enjoyed their product.

For example, I called the Simply Asia company about a month or so ago and was telling them how my mother and myself really enjoyed the General Tsao's Stir fry sauce since we aren't able to afford to go out to eat at Chinese restaurants like we used to and how their sauce was EVEN Better than any Chinese restaurant we had gone to in the past.


They sent me 2 coupons each for the Simply Asia and 2 for their Thai Pad products. Each set was one FREE product and one 50 cents off of the Simply Asia and the Thai Pad products.