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Artist spotlight: Wry & Ginger
[Tofu took time out of his busy schedule to interview an Etsy artist who recently launched a new line of hand-crafted cards called "Doxie Love is Peculiar." The artist, Wry & Ginger, has kindly donated a complete set for giveaway on the site. All you have to do is comment here or tweet using the hashtag #doxielove and complete the sentence "Doxie Love is Peculiar because..." and you'll be entered to win. Contest closes November 27 at midnight EST.]

Home 4 The Holidays
I can't tell you how many times that ad has thrown me through about 4093 different emotions in a mere thirty seconds. So, when we were asked to help promote its incredible cause, it was a no brainer.Iams Home 4 The Holidays is attempting to get 1.5 million animals adopted before January 4, 2010. Sound crazy? It's not. Last year they surpassed their goal of 1 million animals in just three months including Rumi, adopted by the program's 2009 ambassador Hilary Swank.

Are your dachshunds trying to tell you something?
This coming December, I will have been a dog owner for two full years including 18 months of being a multiple-dog household. Additionally, despite it being perfectly clear and well-known to all of you, those two dogs are miniature dachshunds. I say this only because all the dachshund owners and lovers will immediately feel this story on a deeper level.---When we go to work in the morning, we leave Calvi

Earthdog superstars!
Ok, please forgive that this post is a week late, but Thor and Fred and I had a great weekend at the DFW Dachshund Club earthdog trials!This was our 3rd weekend of earthdog, the first being a year ago. All the judges have been so helpful, and many have said that earthdogs are made, not born. It may be true, but Fred's definitely a natural. We have a storage shed in our back yard, and before I blocked it off with bricks, Fred would dig under in pursuit of heaven only knows what. He'd even push bricks aside to go under - a skill requir

Dulces o Travesuras
Halloween in Chile is picking up the pace. When my husband was young, Halloween didn’t even exist here. Yet in the past few years it has become quite the event to celebrate. Kids sometimes get to dress up for school, but mostly the gung-ho parents take their kids out trick-or-treating. When they knock on your door, you hear the phrase “dulces o travesuras” which means “trick or treat”! We didn’t end up going trick-or-treating but we did go to a friend’s house for a gathering. Of course we took Dulcinea along and she too dressed up for the occasion.