Part of Ollie’s weekly routine is a bath. It’s more than a bath, though. It’s puppy pampering. Ollie’s weekly beauty routine includes a thorough scrub down (complete with full body massage), towel dry (fresh out of the dryer, of course), ear cleaning, teeth brushing (meat flavored), a generous spritz of Stud Muffin Pooch Scents (for the bitches), and a few laps around the living room to help dry off.

Ollie really lives the life. See for yourself.

Ollie has always had a love/hate relationship with water.

When he was a puppy, he squealed like a piglet from start to finish of every bath for the first 6 months of his life. Now, he sits and enjoys the scrub-down.

He absolutely will not go in a kiddie pool or play in the garden hose spray.

Today, after two months of coaxing, shivering in paw-deep water, and lots and lots of treats, we finally got Ollie to swim in the creek where we take our walks! He swims straight to shore, but he does swim.

I predict he’ll be diving into the water in two weeks…or whenever the temperature reaches 100 degrees.

We took a new route on our daily walk earlier this week and discovered this really cool old concrete water fountain.

Ollie was a bit leery at first.

But a dachshund cannot leave well enough alone.

So he just had to see what all the splashing was about.

And narrowly escaped getting drenched.

Yesterday was our first spring walk and Ollie had to take a romp straight through the wildflowers.

Isn’t he handsome?

I absolutely adore this Skinny Cow ad – the colors, the tagline, the sketches, the wiener dog!

Tell me that wouldn’t be precious in a frame for a kid’s room.

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