Refresh, Renew, Restart: Happy New Year!

From all of us here at Tube of Fur headquarters, we wish you health, happiness, and oodles of love in 2015. Thank you for being our friends and readers. Thank you for spreading kindness in the world.

And when your human heart is fragile, you know what to do:

TOUCH FUR.

WALK WITH THE FOUR PAW.

BARK IT; WAG IT; BE IT.

Love to you & yours.
Tootsie & her humans

Holiday Treats? No!

Mom says I'm a highly sensitized tube of fur, and we always get into difficulties when we switch my food. So I enjoy the same kibble day in and day out, morning and evening. Still, I love it!

But I hope you mixed things up over the holidays and ate a bunch of things you didn't recognize. Mom sure did, in Italy. Her stomach is a mess, and she is going to tone everything down for a week, or more.

Special Remembrance: Sweet Sir Yugi

It's hard to believe that our friend Sweet Sir Yugi passed away one year ago. We're thinking of Yugi and his Mom and sending lots of love.

Here's an encore showing of Dachshund Daddy's movie, "Be Like Yugi."

And here's another, "Shakespeare in the Bark."

Yugi gave Tootsie a frisbee -- smaller, for her size. About a month ago, after not touching it for a very long time, Tootsie picked it up and started playing with it.

We miss you, Yugi.

Love,
Tootsie & her humans

Feliz Navidad

Dear fellow waggers, have a burrowrific Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Great 2015 Calendar Giveaway Winner!

Waggy tail, please! If you left a comment as part of our Great 2015 Calendar Giveaway, Mom wrote your name on a piece of paper, placed it in a hat, and let me pick the winner. (Sorry, there are no photos of the process, because Dachshund Daddy went on a solo hike today and took the camera.)

Cross your paws and hope that you won!

Here are a few of our entrants with links to their blogs:

The Hailey and Zaphod Chronicles (We love mountains, too.)

The Swiss Cats (They said they didn't need to enter since they knew the answer, but Tootsie insisted we enter you.)

Rottrover (We like the photographs, too.)

Casey @ The Legacy Chronicles (Thank you for the waggy tail.)

Monte Generoso is the mountain on the cover of my 2015 Swiss Alps Calendar. "Generoso" means "generous" in Italian.

Barks and congratulations to the winner of our calendar (with a link to her blog):

Amber DaWeenie (We agree - next year Dachshund Daddy should make a calendar of my cartoons.) Congratulations!

Barks and congratulations to our runner-up, who will receive one of my signature magnets (with a link to his blog):

Mr. Pip (We love that you were going to research.) Congratulations!

Please send an e-mail to Mom with your preferred snail mail address.
Mom's e-mail: idahobuzzy [at] yahoo [dot] com

Thank you, all. Keep on wagging!
Tootsie

P.s.: Mom said we should add a link to Tootsie's Shoppe (over at Zazzle).

Greatest Hits for the Holidays

With a SantaBear in Bozeman, Montana.

 

With holiday paraphenalia.

My holiday card available at my Bicontinental Dachshund Zazzle store, Tootsie's Shoppe.

The year Mom shoved my head through every wreath she could find in Switzerland.

It's an existential time of year.

Another wreath photo. Thanks, Mom.

Boxing Day. (And who is the bright person who included the bag of recycling there in the background? Tacky!)

My Italian greeting.

Happy holidays to you and yours.

Love from all of us,
Tootsie & her humans

P.s. We will post the winner of our great calendar giveaway on Tootsie Tuesday, tomorrow!