Sale on Labrador Lover Gifts!

Just in time for the Christmas and Holiday season! We just added brand new Christmas and Winter Holiday designs and products to our 8PawsUp.com store and they are just too wonderful to pass up! If you don't celebrate Christmas, then that's ok because we have Winter Holiday items as well. These beautiful gifts will let people know you are a Labrador Retriever lover! Check them out in our Labrador Retriever Christmas and Holiday Dog Gifts section today and make sure to use coupon code below for extra savings!

Current Special: $5 Off $50+ Coupon
Coupon Code: ATONALPANICS
Expires: Nov 19, 2008

Holiday Lab Cartoon

New Designs:
Chocolate Lab Christmas Cartoon
Holiday Black Lab Cartoon
Christmas Yellow Lab Cartoon

Fun Chocolate, Yellow and Black Labrador Retriever gifts for the holiday season! A cartoon lab has on brown reindeer antlers, a red bell collar, and there is a bright yellow star tied to his tail. The dog breed's pink tongue is hanging out too, as he eagerly waits for Christmas. Fun breed caricature is set against a dark winter sky, with snowflakes gently falling to the ground. Our fun lab products are available on greeting cards, hot cocoa mugs, holiday ornaments, and of course, lab apparel!

Purchase this design and more Labrador Retriever Christmas Gift Designs on t-shirts, mugs, oval euro stickers, bumper stickers, bags, magnets, and more 8PawsUp.com today and be sure to use coupon code SUITEDWHITE for $5 off your purchase of $50 or more now through September 16, 2008!

July 4th for Lab and Country!

Just in time for the 4th of July! We just added a brand new Independence Day section to our 8PawsUp.com store and they are just too wonderful to pass up! What is more American then apple pie and Labrador Retrievers? Well, we don't have the apple pie but we sure have these Patriotic Labs and Summer Fun Labs! Perfect gifts to show your American Pride, celebrate the 4th of July, or show your love of Summer! Check them out in our Patriotic Labradors Dog Gifts section today and don't forget to use coupon code "MOUNDGARDEN" to get $5 off your order of $50 of more now through June 21st!

Don't forget Father's Day!

Just in time for Father's Day: 8PawsUp Father's Day Lab Gifts! Even if he doesn't have human kids, dogs are children with fur. Remember your Lab's daddy and grandpa with one of our hundreds of dog gift designs including Chocolate, Yellow, Black, Rescue, and Mixed Lab dog for the Labrador lover in your life. Check out our complete line of dog gifts at 8Paws Up Lab Gifts today and don't forget to use coupon code "JUDGESTUDIO" to get $5 off your order of $50 of more now through May 17th!

Perfect Mother's Day Gift!

Did you get something for the doggy mom or grandmother in your life? Why not? Mother's Day is right around the corner and the clock is ticking to get that extra special gift from your Labbie to the special mother figure in its life! 8PawsUp.com has everything from "I Love My GrandLab" to "Lab Mom" and more!

Make sure you use Coupon Code "GATEDEARNED" when checking out to get $5 off $50 or more! Hurry, this sale expires 11:59pm PT April 30, 2008 so get your Lab Mother's Day gift today!

Of course, we couldn't leave out all the other wonderful dog breeds and cats too! So while you are looking for that perfect Mother's Day gift, feel free to pop over to our sister stores DogWireGifts.com and CatWireGifts.com! Don't worry if you already got her a gift; what woman wouldn't want more than one gift?

Coupon code good on all stores: 8PawsUp.com, DogWireGifts.com, and CatWireGifts.com. Plus you can easily put all your items from all three stores into your shopping cart and save on shipping!

Happy Easter!

The Lab Brats and family want to wish one and all a very Happy Easter! May your day be filled with sunshine and your baskets be plenty!

We didn't have a picture of the Lab Brats with bunny ears so we thought we would borrow a picture of the Lab Brats' biological daddy looking Easter cute from our breeder. Yes, that is really their sire, Sam - not Dakota. :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

The Lab Brats and family would like to wish you a wonderful Valentine's Day. We hope it is a day filled with loads of love, laughter, and more than one belly rub! *smile*

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy New Year!

From our family to yours... may the New Year bring you blessings, love, health, wealth, and laughter!

From the Lab Brats to your pups... may the New Year bring you lots of doggy treats, more food dropped on the floor, loads of new Kongs, Frisbees, and Tennis Balls, and a real good belly rub at least once a day for the next year!

Happy New Year to one and all!

Vacation Day

The Lab Brats are on vacation today; sprawled out in the sun and still recovering from a hectic Christmas Eve with a ton of family in their house.

However, the Lab Brats did want me to let everyone know they are doing quite well today and enjoyed the Christmas holiday greatly. Not only did they get new collars, 2ft long rawhide bones in the shape of a candy cane, and a new squeaky toy but their grandpa got them more rawhide chews, a giant Frisbee, and a pet ornament kit that we can make with their own paw prints. Two very spoiled Labrador Retrievers on one very special holiday.

So, as they continue to recover from full bellies and the tons of love and attention that was showered on them for the last couple of day, they feel it only right for their mommy to rest as well... and that I will...

A Lab Brats Merry Christmas!

Tonight will be a blessed but hectic night for the Lab Brats family. This evening we will be hosting a Christmas Party at our house with our closest 25 family members and friends in attendance.

Dakota and Cheyenne have no idea what is going on. What they do know is that mommy has been cooking up a storm and the Lab Brats are tasting the most wonderful things ever to come out of the kitchen. They don't know what they did to deserve all the wonderful smells and tastes; they just know that this is the best time of year.

On top of that, they seem to know already which presents are theirs. Cheyenne has taken a liking to barking at the large rawhide candy canes on the wall and sniffing her stocking full of presents from grandpa every so often. Dakota wants what is in the Christmas bag; for behold was a new Cuz and she knows it is all hers!

So as the Lab Brats now rest at my feet before the flood of beloved family and friends arrive, I thought it only fitting to wish our wonderful online readers...

May you and your Labs have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas... and too all good dogs a new squeaky toy!

Dakota's Christmas Depression

We are bad doggy parents!

How dare we set up the Christmas tree in front of the big window in the living room. Don't we know that this is Dakota's "perch" to watch the people passing by on the sidewalk, to use for alerting us that the mailman cometh, and to get the majority of her sunspots? Worse yet - this is where Dakota's sauna is!

What's Dakota's "sauna"? Well, it is a 8ft long heating vent that goes along our 8ft huge living room picture window. Dakota's favorite spot if you will. And our Christmas tree is dead center of the window and blocking a majority of her access to the heating vent "sauna". Oh sure, she made do for a few weeks by curling into a ball on either side of the tree and at least getting 1ft of the heating vent. But now we have gone and done the worse thing imaginable; we put Christmas presents around the tree and Dakota can't even get to the window nor get to an inch of her "sauna".

So, she keeps looking at her favorite spot (that is now occupied by a 7ft tree) and looking back at us with her Sad Sam eyes. It is doggy depression at its worse - Dakota depression. What bad doggy parents we are! How dare we interfere with the serene life of a Labrador Retriever! (laugh)

(Thank goodness we take the tree down January 6th - for Dakota's sake.)

Happy Easter!

The Lab Brats and family wish everyone a happy and blessed Easter!

On a side note: I looked at the clip this morning from the news and they didn't use the footage with Dakota & Cheyenne on it! They used the cute little yellow Lab puppy and some other dog. Heck, they didnt even use the footage of the sign in the front of the daycare that I saw him taking. The clip lasted all of 5 seconds...

But I am not going to give up! I will be contacting the station today to see if they can email me the video clip of the girls that they didnt use. Let's keep our paws crossed!

Lab Brats on TV Tonight!

The Lab Brats had a blast at the Doggy Easter Egg Hunt today! The frigid cold and snow couldn't stop them and they just had to show off enough to get the attention of one of the local news station camera guys. Yep! He did a close up of our girls eating their huge edible doggy Easter eggs they found during the event - and I mean CLOSE UP! He probably even got some drool on his camera during their chowing down on the eggs! As he walked away, he said "Thank you - they will be on CBS 58 News at Ten tonight." Woo hoo! The Lab Brats will be television stars on the news tonight. So, everyone in the Milwaukee area, watch the news at 10 o'clock tonight and you should see our precious chocolate Labs!

Not to worry for those that can't watch it, we will be recording it on the DVR tonight and see about getting it posted soon. We are just so excited - it was well worth braving the freezing cold!

Happy Easter!

Fireworks and Labrador Retrievers

KEEPING YOUR LAB SAFE DURING THE CELEBRATIONS
Independence Day and similar holidays are supposed to be a time for celebration, so why is your Lab not celebrating? Fireworks! Sure, they are pretty and give us a warm feeling of independence, but these big boomers are nothing to bark at! Some Labrador Retrievers actually enjoy the festivities and are able to stay next to their owners without flinching. However, most Labs would rather have nothing to do with the elaborate colors and ground-shaking boomers. For them, there is no place too small in which they cannot squeeze into in order to get as far away from the 4th of July celebrations as possible. This is why we have comprised a list of hints to help your Lab get through the day (and night) with as little stress as possible. [more]