After nearly eight months away from home on deployment with the U.S. Navy to Kuwait, my two dachshunds were very happy to see me again. Franklin is the black and tan male and Sally is the red/brown female. Both are two years old and both were rescue dogs. For more information contact Southern States Dachshund Rescue at ssdr.org and Dachshund Rescue of North America at drna.org for more dachshunds in need of a good home. They are the best dogs ever.

Kristin from Doghouse Custom Pet Portraits did a phenomenal job capturing Oliver’s personality and everyone who has seen Ollie’s portrait is absolutely in love. She’s super talented and finished the portrait in no time at all. I chose the gallery wrap canvas, but she also does paper prints for framing – all of which are incredibly reasonably priced.

If you’re as big of pet lovers as we are, I highly recommend Doghouse Portraits to create a really unique piece of artwork!

I picked a cute stock layout, entered Ollie’s information, and even got to choose from several high quality paper stocks and can add a design to the back of the card – I love that little touch – for a very reasonable price. With all the upgrades, it was still under $20 for 200 business cards and took just a few minutes to create.

I know you’re dying to get your dog business cards after hearing about 123PRINT!

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Ollie and Huey in their Halloween best.

If you have a few extra dollars, please donate and support Laurie in the 2010 Breast Cancer 3-Day next November! You can also visit her 3 Day blog and leave some words of encouragement!

Since I buy Ollie’s dry food at PETCO it was nice to hear about their Premium Nutrition Pledge. They are committed to offering pet food formulas that go beyond the minimum nutritional requirements and now have at least 2 trained nutrition experts in every single one of their 950 stores nationwide.

PETCO has also created a library of education materials that are available online and will be holding pet nutrition workshops at every store on Saturday, November 14th at 2 pm.

To get started, here’s a few helpful hints everyone should know when reading pet food labels…

Kudos to PETCO for being proactive and taking a stand for the nutrition of our pets!

Ollie actually has a sombrero, but that line is actually to claim this blog with Sponzai so that Ollie can make a little extra cash for treats and toys by blogging.

If you’re interested in knowing more about Sponzai, let me know. I’d be happy to answer any questions!

I’ve wisened up a little bit over the past three years of weiner dog ownership – I ask for a prescription for Ollie’s heartworm and flea medicine and use Petcarerx coupons.

The vet doesn’t particularly appreciate me not buying Ollie’s medications at the office, but weiner dogs are expensive and we have to save money wherever we can!

Ollie pulled out all three of his lifeless Bobo carcasses toys at one time last night in hopes that I would play tug with him. Of course, I did…and then I dressed him up like the Cruella Deville of stuffed dog toys with his coat made of Bobos.

Even though Bobo is nearly decapitated and completely devoid of all stuffing, Ollie loves him all the same. He should – he’s the one that inflicted all the injuries.