See you next year!

The time has come for a much needed Christmas break, and the LaDeDog! staff will be working diligently on updating inventory, adding exciting new products and a new improved web store.

We will be closed throughout the New Year and will update our BLOG with information on the re-launch, so please stay tuned!

We Thank you all for making us your Destination Dog Boutique!

Wishing you a safe, enjoyable & Happy Holidays from your friends at LaDeDog!

Location, Location, Location

We are finally settled into our new home in California, and beginning our search for the perfect retail location for LaDeDog! This is going to be a long process, because drawing off of experience, location is everything.

There are so many beautiful areas along the Southern California Coast, and we are taking our time studying the demographics of each community and street. It is still up in the air where we will end up, but I am positive that once we make our decision, it will be a perfect fit!

It will be yet another week or two before the website is fully up and running again, but I will continue to update the blog and networks with new information as we wait for our transition to be complete.

This is an amazing place we have here - warm sun, relaxing atmosphere, and beaches full of smiling faces... It's great to be back in sunny California!

Road Trip!

To our most precious and valued customers,

If you have been following LaDeDog! during the past six months, you have surely noticed our lack of presence on our blog posts and social networking. Some have expressed their concern of the fate of our website after the close of the Boutique in Astoria, but I can assure you, new horizons are just around the bend for our beloved store.

Our new horizons are full of sunshine and new ideas - we have been very busy cooking up some exciting additions to our store, which includes an entirely new location.

LaDeDog! will be relocating to California, near the beautiful shores of Santa Barbara. Until our re-launch of the Brick and Mortar Shop, we will continue serving our customers through the web store at http://www.ladedog.net/ . The web store, however, will be temporarily closed from July 6th through July 12th do to inventory and hiring for the new shipping department.

We sincerely appreciate your love and support through our transitions, and look forward to this new endeavor in our lives.

Sincerely,

Roxy, Renee & Tony Weatherford

As we transition into the World Wide Web...

Did you know there was such a thing as National Dress Up Your Pet Day? Well, if you have always wanted to explore the world of pet fashion, then today is your day! And lucky for you, there is a LaDeDog! WebStore full of couture you would be proud to show off.

It was a somber day in our little shop today. Our goodbye's to our favorite customers of the two and four-legged kind, were endearing. I have appreciated getting to know you all, and have really enjoyed the cards and eMail messages that have been coming in the past week.

I sincerely hope that you will continue to keep in touch through the Blog & WebStore. We will continue serving you with special requests, contests & our most popular products on the web. If at all possible, LaDeDog! will set up their little "Dog and Pony Show" (pun intended) at the local Sunday Markets this coming Spring, and you will surely see us participating in whatever local Dog Shelter/Humane Society events may come our way.

So I will leave you with some quotes from one of my favorite movies, "You've Got Mail", which really express this closing door in my life... But I know in the very near future windows will be flying open.

"Closing the store is the brave thing to do... You are daring to imagine that you could have a different life. Oh, I know it doesn’t feel like that. You feel like a big fat failure. But you’re not. You’re marching into the unknown, armed with … nothing.” Says Birdie to the mourning Shop Around the Corner owner, Kathleen Kelly in the movie “You’ve Got Mail”

I feel this way today.

Kathleen Kelly: “My store is closing this week. I own a store. Did I ever tell you that? Probably not. It’s a lovely store – and in a week, it will be something really depressing, like a Baby Gap. I am being amazingly brave”

I am not really brave… I am just following my gut.

Tomorrow will be the last day of my little dream come true. Though they say, “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all”, I suppose the same rings true for those who try their hand at a small business. And to have thrived for the first year makes it all worth while. But to survive in retail during this eonomic mess is just too much to handle.

Thank you all for an amazing ride!

Enjoy LaDeDog! All week long!

President's Day Weekend

We will have extended hours February 17th & 18th

Sunday & Monday (10am - 2pm)

And while you're here, enjoy a 10% discount on all

Toys & Valentine Items

The Storm of the Century

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have decided to postpone the expansion of our website until after the first of the year. As you may already know, Astoria was hit with a category 3 Hurricane on Sunday, December 2nd.

This "Storm of the Century" brought Clatsop and surrounding Counties to its knees, and produced a whole new set of problems, repairs, and lots of clean-up.

Although we suffered some damages at our home, LaDeDog! withstood the 140 mph wind gusts and survived the broken glass, damaged canopies and loss of merchandise. We were very pleased to see that the Merchants on Tenth Street faired very well.

We do have our webstore in the works, and will have it up and ready to go after the big Holiday rush. We will send a new Newsletter as soon as things get back to normal on the home-front. In the meantime, as always, we are happy to ship any items you would like to purchase at any time.

Please continue to check our website for news and special sales - we still update weekly and please keep those adorable photos coming in... our web album is looking so adorable!!

With that, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Chistmas, and a prosperous New Year.

Happy Thanksgiving!

From our family to yours;

We wish you much happiness, good health and good times.

The Weatherfords