Posted on 08 October 2009. Tags: Christmas, Dachshund Christmas Cards, Family Photo, Herding Cats, Photos
It’s a few months to Christmas, and I’ve decided that we’re going to send out Dachshund Christmas Cards. Doesn’t this sound like a great idea?
It’s really simple; just group your three Dachshunds together, take a family picture of the puppies, upload the photo and order the cards.
Simple. About as simple as herding cats.
Chloe likes to sleep all day; Odie likes to play all day; Molly likes to hide behind my desk where she come out for air.
I can trick them all together for that once-in-a-lifetime Christmas pose by blowing through a squeaker from one of their dog balls, but all I get is a bunch of scattered brained Dachshunds looking for a stupid ball.
They know it’s coming from my mouth and they think I’m chewing on their ball. But when I get down to shoot picture, they lick the camera or worse, my mouth.
Not a pretty sight or a picture that I can print for the Christmas Cards I’m planning to send out.
Posted in Dachshund, Miniature Dachshund
Posted on 19 June 2008.
June 20, 2008: Today is Take Your Dog to Work Day. But when you have three Dachshunds, which one do you take? Both Chloe and Odie have been to the office before and it proved quite embarrassing.
The first time Chloe when to work, she peed on the carpet on top where another Take Your Dog to Work Day dog previously peed. Apparently she’s housebroken but not office broken.
Then while I’m trying to work, she just had to sit in my lap which basically made it impossible to work. Eventually she settled down and slept at my feet until…
Someone poked their head in my cube and she let out one fierce bark. The sound of it was magnified 10x because she was under the desk so she must have sounded like a really big dog.
Odie was the same way. He would climb into my lap an try to sleep. He was worse than Chloe since his boney legs really start poking into you after a while. Too bad he doesn’t have a little more padding like Chloe.
The President of the Company I was working for at the time had several Dacshunds and just had to take Odie for a walk around company to show him off. I went to pick Odie up a little later in his office only to find that Odie left a nice little doggy sausage for me to cleanup.
So today is Take Your Dog to Work Day. It’s Molly’s turn. It should be interesting. Dachshunds are not office broken.
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Posted on 17 September 2006.
Are you a little stressed out? Perhaps a Sqush is just the thing you need. It’s about the size of a tennis ball … perfect for a Dachshund to rip to shreds.
I picked up one Saturday to relieve some stress and pain I’ve been having in my wrists. It actually reduces the pain two ways: squeezing the sqush flexes the muscles around the wrist plus you can use it as a mouse pad to get that correct ergonimic position.
I just can’t leave the sqush out unattended. After using as mouse pad or squeezing the sqush, I’ll leave in on top of the desk. If I walk away for a moment, Molly or Odie will hop up on my chair and grab it.
Of course they think it’s just a toy. Can’t they read yet? It clearly says it’s not a toy for children under the age of 5…
Posted in Balls, Dachshund, Dog Toys, Miniature Dachshund
Posted on 02 February 2006.
You just got to love Google especially when they have favorable “bring your pet to work policies.†Most startup and small companies allow you to bring your dog to work. It’s really in the best interest of companies to keep their employees happy.
Over the past few years I had the pleasure of working for several companies that would let you bring your dog to work. Often I would drop off Chloe in the morning to get her bathed and pick her a few hours later nice and clean.
Everyone at the office loved it when Chloe would visit. She would usually help me design Firmware for a Fibre Channel switch (at Troika Networks) by sitting on my lap and occasionally hop on the keyboard causing a major bug with her paw.
After a while, Chloe would settle into a corner under my desk and try to sleep. If anyone would slip into the cubical unannounced, she of course would bark at him with a wagging tail.
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