If I had to guess, I’d say Ollie is thankful for…

• electric blankets
• cheese
• puppy pads

Crazy weiner dog people – head over to Target and start digging through the Dollar Spot! My Target only had 2 of these cute little felt bags which are perfect for holiday goodies!

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When you have a dog as messy as Ollie, you need a Dirt Devil. Who knew a 12 pound weiner dog could cause so much destruction?

There’s always strings from ropes, feathers from pillows, crumbs from treats, and the occasional excited piddle when we have a visitor that needs to be cleaned up, so the Dirt Devil Holiday Gift Guide (pdf) has a few things that I’m interested in.

Not only are there great Dirt Devil suggestions for him, her, and families, there are tips on over 300 ways to save with online shopping, including where to find discount codes, how to score free shipping, who to follow on Twitter for deals, and where to scope out the best bargains for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

So, along with the Easy Steam Deluxe to clean up after Ollie, you can also find where to buy me something sparkly. You have buy something sparkly to soften the blow of buying someone a household appliance for Christmas!

The Dirt Devil Holiday Gift Guide (pdf) really is a complete holiday gift guide.

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If that cartoon isn’t exactly like Ollie, then I don’t know what is.

Every morning, I get up, make myself breakfast, and at the exact moment that the bacon comes out of the microwave, Ollie magically appears.

Ditto for anything out of the refrigerator.

And cabinet.

And any bags rustling in the general direction of the kitchen.

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Ollie has shown his support for breast cancer awareness several times by wearing his pink hoodie and his special breast cancer bandana. I don’t think any of us are separated from the effects of breast cancer by more than one person, which is tragic.

That’s why the partnership between Cryo-Cell International, Inc., the leading blood banking service, and the National Institute of Health is so important – they are exploring the potential uses of menstrual steam cells to treat breast cancer.

Cryo-Cell provides to different services – cord blood banking and menstrual blood banking. Each harvests stem cells and stores them if they are ever needed to treat over 75 diseases, including leukemia, sickle sell, and more. The list keeps growing as more research and experimentation is funded!

Cryo-Cell is currently offering contributions to the Susan B. Komen Foundation. A $50 Cyro-Cell Breast Cancer Donation will be made for each purchase of the Protect Baby, Protect Mom service and a $25 C’Elle Breast Cancer Donation will be made for each purchase of the C’elle Menstrual Stem Cell service.

Not only can you protect you and your baby with Cryo-Cell, you can contribute to the fight against breast cancer.

Dachshunds have a tendency to show up in the strangest places. They are funny little creatures so they get roped into all kinds of silly situations.

Like a racy comic book series in The Daily Mirror during wartime Britain featuring Fritz & Jane – who apparently had a knack of misplacing her clothing, much to the British soldier’s chagrin, I’m sure.

Chrystabel Leighton-Porter was the inspiration for Jane and was known during her time as Britain’s first sex bomb.

Apparently a photoshoot was required to accurately portray her likeness alongside Fritz.

Weird.

Ollie is on Twitter, but he doesn’t Tweet much. Or at all. Though I think I’ve just found a cause he needs to get involved in.

LeapFish and the Make-a-Wish foundation, two organizations that are true to their mission of enriching children’s lives, have come together to raise $10,000 to send an ill child to Disneyland though the tweet-a-cause social media fundraising initiative.

Jacob is 4-years-old and is suffering from Atresia, a illness that causes extreme pain and claims the lives of too many children every year. Jacob’s wish is to visit Disneland with his family and the tweet-a-cause effort can help get him there!

For every tweet that is sent from this link (or copy and pasting the tweet below), LeapFish will donate 5 cents to the Make-A-Wish Foundation until $10,000 has been raised and Jacob and his family can go to Disneyland. The tweet-a-cause runs through November 27, 2009.

Social media fundraising initiatives are so easy to get involved with. All you have to do is take ten seconds our of your online time and tweet the following to help Jacob and his family enjoy a trip to Disneyland!

Just tweeted 2 grant a childs wish! #LeapFish donates to #makeawish foundation for each tweet. http://bit.ly/3Tj8A Please retweet!

Remember when I was contemplating a dachshund tattoo? Well, our reader Lilly took the plunge!

She says it’s about two inches long and on her left inner wrist. I think it’s adorable!

I don’t think anything would make my husband happier than to take Ollie on vacation with us just once. He hates leaving him at the kennel even though the kennel is a $35 a night doggie hotel.

Ollie is such a good little traveler (probably from all the trips from Indy to Chicago when my husband and I were dating) that I can hardly argue with wanting to take him on a road trip and a vacation home rental is probably our best bet for accommodations.

A Colorado vacation rental would not be ideal because we all know that weiner dogs want nothing to do with snow, but a Florida vacation rental (something near the beach, please) would be ideal.

Maybe next vacation we’ll just have to pack Ollie up and take him with us!

Best homecoming ever! Thank you to all the men and women who have served in the military, and those who continue to do so. Happy Veterans Day!

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.