Known as Beggin ' Strips in the US and Canada

Beggin ' Strips are a brand of dog treats manufactured and sold in North America by Nestlé's Nestlé Purina PetCare division.

Beggin ' Strips are designed to resemble strips of bacon.

Beggin ' Strips were first sold in 1993.

" This is supported by Nestle Purina Petcare, who offers various coupons and other savings for Beggin ' Strips.

Purina Beggin ' Strips are made of real bacon but are enhanced with artificial ingredients.

Shown from a dog's perspective, the excited pet smells Beggin ' Strips and is convinced that he is smelling real bacon, exclaiming, " It's BACON!

" Hamlet was chosen to appear in Nestle Purina's advertising for Beggin ' Strips, and to represent the product.

Shortly after the initial sale of Beggin ' Strips, coupons for the product were released to try to build support for the treats.

St. Louis ' Waterloo Courier also covered the Beggin ' Strips Stupid Dog Contest on July 4, 1999.

This contest offers multiple monetary prizes, the grand prize being a $ 5, 000 supply of Beggin ' Strips per year and a trip to see the Late Show with David Letterman in New York.

Beggin ' Strips made its way into social media by launching a Facebook page in 2011, and most recently in 2012, launching an iPhone and iPad application allowing users to film their own version of the famous commercial.

* Purina Beggin ' Strips product website

# redirect Beggin ' Strips

On the second Sunday before Mardi Gras, there is a family-oriented " Krewe of Barkus " Beggin ' Strips pet parade.

A brand designed for smaller pets, the Beggin ' Little's, are about 6-8 calories.

With producer Bob Crewe often assisting with lyrics, Gaudio wrote a string of subsequent hits for the Seasons, including " Big Girls Don't Cry ," " Walk Like a Man ," " Dawn ( Go Away )," " Ronnie ," " Rag Doll ," " Save It for Me ," " Big Man in Town ," " Bye Bye Baby ," " Girl Come Running ," " Beggin '," and " Can't Take My Eyes Off You " ( the first big success under Valli's name as a " solo artist ").

Pilooski made an electro remix of that song, while rap act Madcon used it as the basis of their song " Beggin '".

Today, Purina still hosts their annual Beggin ' Pet Parade around the time of Mardi Gras.

In 1994, H-Town returned the studio to record their second album Beggin ' After Dark.

In 2008, The Four Seasons ' " Beggin '" was revived not by one but by two acts.

1987's Free as a Bird experimented in heavily synthesised music, such as " I'm Beggin ' You ", which reached number 1 on the US dance charts.

*" Beggin ' on Your Knees " by Victoria Justice ft. Victorious Cast ( 2011 )

Despite the fact that " I'm Beggin ' You " was a club chart-topping hit and Free as a Birds title cut was a minor hit, the album did not do well peaking at # 101, making it the first Supertramp album since 1971's Indelibly Stamped not to crack Billboard's Top 100 on the album charts.

The first song under the NRJ branding was Beggin ' by Madcon.

According to Purina's Beggin ' Strip website the initial bacon is preserved with sodium nitrite and BHA.

Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist.

Strips usually, but not always, are broken up into several smaller panels with continuity from panel to panel.

Strips begun during the mid-1980s or after ( such as Get Fuzzy, Over the Hedge, Monty, and others ) are known for their heavy use of storylines, lasting between one and three weeks in most cases.

Strips of tamagoyaki omelette, tiny fish roe, chopped tuna, and oboro whitefish flakes are typical non-vegetarian fillings.

* Spike Strips: The lower walls of the arena are lined with inward pointing 6-inch long sharpened steel spikes.

Strips of this type are still used for urine glucose readings, but for blood glucose levels they are obsolete.

Strips are produced by photographing cartoon characters.

Strips of palm leaf and grass stems are cemented together with mud and lined with palm fibre to form a cup.

Strips of nata de coco are used in mass-produced bubble tea drinks as a healthier alternative to tapioca.

Strips of 35mm still picture film are also included in the film ; at times, the images are run upside down, and in reverse.

Centerline Rumble Strips are applied to single lane undivided highways to help prevent head-on collisions.

Strips featuring Syd are usually drawn by Lew Stringer, an artist and regular contributor to the comic.

Strips set in Fisher's workplace satirize office politics and corporate bureaucracy ; strips set in Fisher's home are based around relationship humour, with a strong focus put on Tom's tendency to be introspective.

In 2008, he published Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic Strips: The Fate of Public Education in America in which contemporary education debates are seen as the result of demographic and economic trends throughout the 20th Century.

Chicken tenders are offered by various fast food chains like McDonald's " Chicken Select Strips " and Church's Chicken " Tender Strips ".

Strips on the other hand are generally longer and shaped into a rectangle.