Doggy Retirement Planning

The other day, Lady Vicki suggested the addition of fridge magnets to the array of doggy products available from Tootsie's Shoppe. There was never any doubt I should follow her advice, but I had to think long and hard about the implementation.

I finally saw the light during one of my many naps. I'm a savvy sausage, right? So why not start a Savvy Sausage Wisdom fridge magnet series to share my sound advice? I mean, my dach-sound advice?

Now, what pearl of doggy wisdom do I start with? Retirement planning, of course, because we're not getting any younger. In this day and age of financial uncertainty, we all need to plan for our golden doggy years.

Savvy Sausage Wisdom - Retirement Fridge Magnet by BicontinentalTootsie

If you're worried about too much exposure to stock market fluctuations, as you should be, keep in mind you can always hedge your 401(k9) with a Dow Jones inverse ETF that gains x% when the market drops x%. My favorite example is the ProShares Short Dow30, whose ticker is DOG. (It really exists, look here!)

Speaking of doggy wisdom, please check out Lady Vicki's blog! Its title is "Think before you say yes"; now, that's a piece of advice everyone should follow!

Savvy Sausage Wisdom - Dach-sound Fridge Magnet by BicontinentalTootsie

Fur disclosure: this is a dog blog; my yips are not meant to be construed as professional financial advice.

Fur disclosure #2: I'm not being compensated by ProShares in any way for mentioning their DOG product. They won't even enter my Burrower's Choice giveaway.

Please, May I Sleep Now? Part II of III

My Solution to the US Government Shutdown

My Elect Dachshunds T-shirt is now available from Tootsie's Shoppe. As soon as my advice is implemented, no doubt the crisis will end.

In the meantime, don't miss the Fall 2013 Burrower's Choice giveaway!

Burrower's Choice Giveaway

Dear Hearts and Kindred Spirits,

Welcome to the Fall 2013 Burrower's Choice Giveaway!

Enter today for a chance to win four Time to Burrow! cards from my very special shoppe. That's a cash value of over ten US dollars plus free worldwide shipping... yes, you read that correctly. Getting the financially conservative Dachshund Daddy to give us his blessing for this giveaway was harder than housebreaking a dachshund puppy, but here we are:

To enter, you need to visit Tootsie's Shoppe, sniff around, and answer the following questions in a comment to this post:

1. Is there something you really like about Tootsie's Shoppe?
2. Is there anything I'm clearly not doing right, in your opinion?
3. Is there anything you would like to see in Tootsie's Shoppe that isn't already there?

The deadline to enter the Burrower's Choice Giveaway is Tuesday, October 15, at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth). If you haven't heard this one yet, it's how electrical and computer engineers set their deadlines... as long as it's earlier than 11:59 pm on 10/15 anywhere on Earth, you can enter our giveaway. For the record, the last place on Earth for any day to end is Howland Island, an uninhabited US territory just west of the International Date Line.

For purposes of compliance with the US Federal Communications Commission regulations, let me state on the record that no purchase is required. Off the record, duh... any purchase makes me wag!

One lucky winner will be randomly selected and announced on this bloggie on October 17. Not October 16, because it's a Wednesday, and it's supposed to be wordless. I do apologize in advance for the many sleepless nights you will experience as you wait for the aforementioned announcement.

I want Tootsie's Shoppe to be wotten waven, so I look forward to your constructive criticism. I have a thick skin and, if you really don't like my shoppe, I want you to tell me... but I also want you to tell me what I could do to improve. If you just write "Tootsie, close down your shoppe and go back to your burrow", your entry will not be valid. Thanks!

Please note that the default configuration of the Shoppe prevents you from viewing products rated PG-13, including my Doggy Comeback and my Ocean Pee products. This is Zazzle's policy, not my own. To view all products, click on Change at the bottom of the sidebar on the left-hand side:

and set the content filter to Moderate if your human is 13 or older:

Since I'm a Bicontinental Dachshund, allow me to reiterate that we'll be shipping worldwide! Entries from anywhere on Earth are welcome. Please no entries from Howland Island; it's uninhabited.

Thanks for your participation,
keep on wagging,
Tootsie

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Virtual Tacos

October 4th was National Taco Day. Because I'm on a strict Swiss German doggy diet, and eat only kibbles, carrots, green beans, and sweet potatoes, I never join Mom to eat at her favorite summer eating place in Sandpoint, Idaho: Joel's Mexican Food.

Because I am a savvy sausage, I looked up the definition of tacos on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia defines tacos as "a traditional Mexican dish composed of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling".

Mom says this is as close to real tacos as I can ever hope to get. I was glad to see most of my fur-friends fared better than I did with their tacos.

Long Gravel Road. Long Little Dog.