Purina continues to leverage user generated content in its pet food marketing, this time for its venerable Alpo brand dog food. MediaPost describes the contest where dog owners are encouraged to enter the contest with photos and stories of their dogs being Real Dogs. I think they’re trying to promote a bit of backlash to the pet humanization trend, as the microsite pokes fun at dogs who attend dog-spas and shows. One thing I found interesting is that other than offering a coupon for entering the contest, there is really nothing about Alpo dog food on the microsite. As a matter of fact, there’s no information about what’s IN the food on the main Alpo site, other than the label names, which the savvy pet food label reader can see indicate that only 3% of the can’s ingredients are the named meat. The Flash based Alpo site also features two additional promotions, an online match and save game and one featuring grill chef Kent Whitaker.