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In April of 1996, we were one of the first small businesses with our own Web site. In that spirit of not being left behind in the digital world, we are now on Facebook (www.facebook.com/DachshundDelights) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/DoxieDelights). Come check us out!

July Special Of The Month
During July, we will give you a free Snap-A-Danna (our choice) with any order of $50 before tax and shipping. In the comments section of the order form, tell us your dog's neck size and gender. So what are you waiting for? Start shopping!

Fabrics Of The Month For July
Order an item made from any fabric from our special selections and get money off: $2 off a fabric harness vest, $3 off a coat, or $5 off a DreamSack. We will apply the discount when we total your purchase. This month, to celebrate Independence Day, choose between Patriotic Paws and Silver Stars!

   

The July Dachshund Of The Month is a sweet pup, to follow up on last month's sweet pup. We love sweet dachshund pups. So sue us.

The July Newsletter Feature Of The Month is the manifesto of the talented artist/author of a line of dog-themed greeting cards.

Puppy Harness Vest Replacement Program
Our Harness Vest Replacement Program (see below under Of Ongoing Interest) proved to be so popular that we expande it for those who don't want to buy a harness vest that a pup will grow out of in a few months. Go ahead and buy that harness vest, and when it's too small, send it back to us. It doesn't matter what condition it's in. We will give you a $10 credit toward an adult-sized harness vest. Just one used harness vest per order, please.

Come See Us in Your Town
July 11
Northeast Ohio Dachshund Picnic
Plum Creek Park
Kent, OH

We've found a pet insurance company we really like, especially since they cover genetic conditions and the disc disease that dachshunds are prone to. Visit Embrace Pet Insurance by clicking the link below.

You can read some opinions of them at Pet Insurance Review.
 

Of Ongoing Interest

Harness Vest Replacement Program

Has your doxie outgrown the clothes in his closet? Or has she been successful on that vet-prescribed diet? Perhaps you have a canine fashion maven who demands a new wardrobe. Send us a usable, reasonably clean Hug-A-Dog Harness Vest and receive $10 off a new harness vest. We will distribute the trade-ins to dachshund rescue. Just mention in the comments box at the end of the ordering process that you have a harness vest to trade in. Mail the old harness vest to us within a week to receive immediate credit on the price of the new harness vest. Need to use the old harness vest until you get the new one? Send the old harness vest to us after your doxie is dashing around in his new duds and we will credit your account upon receipt of the old harness vest.

Send used harness vests to Dachshund Delights, 8675 Pierce Rd, Garrettsville, OH 44231

Special Deals On Clearance Fabrics

Order a fabric harness vest or a DreamSack made with one of our clearance fabrics and save money! We will deduct $2 from the price of a harness vest or $5 from the price of a DreamSack. (These discounts will be applied manually by us when we process your order.)

Looking to Add A(nother) Dachshund to Your Home?

If you want to buy a pup, we recommend 2 Dogs Long.

If you want to adopt a dog of any age, here are some rescue groups who can help you:
All American Dachshund Rescue
All Texas Dachshund Rescue
Almost Home Rescue
Central Texas Dachshund Rescue
Coast To Coast Dachshund Rescue
Dachshund Rescue of North America
Dachshund Rescue of South Florida
Dallas-Fort Worth Dachshund Rescue
DARE (Dachshund Adoption And Rescue)
Dixie Dachshund Rescue, Inc.
Gulf Coast Dachshund Rescue
Little Long Dogs Dachshund Rescue
Midwest Dachshund Rescue

Browse our Family Album. Click here to start with our beloved Stubby, then read about all the others.

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We have a gallery of satisfied customers: good-looking dogs wearing our Hug-A-Dog Harness® Vests. Your dog can be here, too. Send an e-mail to the Webmaster with your digital photo (under 300 Kb, please) or for instructions on submitting photos to be scanned.

We also have unsolicited comments from our customers.

It's July, 2009, And We're Touring Charleston

Give your pet the greatest gift of all ‚ The gift of health!

 

If you go to www.sammydogbooks.com and order a copy of The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund, Sammy's Last Week in Charleston by Jonathan Miller – and we recommend that you do exactly that – the first thing you're going to be impressed with is the size of the book you get in the mail. A foot long – how appropriate for a book about a dachshund – and ten inches high, it looks and feels very substantial for a paperbound volume. The stock is heavy, and the colors just pop off the page at you.

But wait; there's more. This book is a fun story, an engaging travelogue, and an impressive showcase for 22 beautifully assembled – there's no other word for it – prints.

As the story opens, Sammy's boss calls him on a Sunday morning. Sammy is a fact checker for an Internet company, and his boss wants him to take a better job in another city. Sammy can't pass up the opportunity, but he is now left with only one week to say goodbye to Charleston, SC, the city he loves. As the week goes on, Sammy tours his favorite places, and we go with him. He hits the places you would expect, like King Street and The Citadel, a few that we might not have thought of, like a Piggly Wiggly supermarket, and a few, like an abandoned boat near Folly Lake, that tourists mostly don't see or notice. All of these locations are real, and even if you've never visited Charleston, Miller's artwork is so vivid that you're going to feel like a native.

Let's talk about that artwork for a minute. Miller was good enough to spend some time on the phone with us explaining how he does it. With very little formal art training – he was a business major in college – he developed a style of cutting out pieces of construction paper and assembling them into 12" by 18" sort-of-mosaics, enhanced with outlining that he does with a black Sharpie pen. Each of the 22 illustrations in the book took 40 to 50 hours to produce. Take a look at the Angel Oak illustration. Look at all those tiny green pieces, each cut by hand and glued by hand. That piece took 63 hours. Look at the sunset on Colonial Lake and see how well Miller renders reflections on the water with pieces of orange construction paper. And all the fans in the grandstands cheering on the Charleston RiverDogs; we don't want to even think about what it took to cut and paste each one.

Sammy has many friends in Charleston, most of them human, and all of them rendered in a post-modern-but-not-ironic, almost-Keane, wide-eyed style. We note with approval, though not surprise, that many of Sammy's devoted friends are young, hot women.

As we suspected, there is a real Sammy (that's him at the left), but he doesn't share living quarters with Miller. He lives with one of Miller's friends, but always seemed like the kind of funny guy who would have adventures worth chronicling.

Finally, you reach a page with a The End sign, and you look one page beyond, just in case it's a joke and there are more good things to be seen. There are not. But the good news is that there are more Sammy adventures coming, including a trip to Africa next. Miller tells us that Sammy will be traveling all around this great country of ours. There's just the little matter of all those hours of illustration. We hasten to hang up the phone so he can get to work again. We're eager for the next book.

Go to www.sammydogbooks.com and order a copy of The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund, Sammy's Last Week in Charleston by Jonathan Miller. Do it now.

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