American Airlines Responds

They actually got back to me a lot sooner but I had to get the letter scanned in and converted to text.

If you forgot my original letter to them can be found here

http://stephenthedog.blogspot.com/2009/01/carmen-alvarez-saves-christmas.html



February 4, 2009



EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Mr. Stephen The Dog
7 woofer Lane
Barkington DE 20023

Dear Mr. Dog:

Thank you for contacting American Airlines Customer Relations. While I've never responded to a dog before, I am pleased to do so.

There are two important reasons why we have strict rules requiring that dogs be kept
in kennels while flying in the cabin -- for the well-being of the pet and the comfort of
all of our customers. The pet must be able to stand up while inside the kennel --
something especially important on a long flight, Please don't take this next part
personally -- not all traveling pets are as civilized as you. The kennels also help
reduce odor, noise, allergic reactions or potential danger to our customers from
these pets.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has ruled that airlines must allow emotional
support animals to travel in the cabin; these animals may ride on the customer's lap.

Some humans with allergies object to traveling when pets are present in the cabin.
Believe it or not, our regulations for pets carried aboard the aircraft are aimed at
reducing any discomfort on the part of our other customers. When traveling within
the 48 contiguous United States, we allow seven kennels per flight, two in the First
Class cabin and a total of five in the Main Cabin and Business Class combined. The pet must travel in a kennel that fits underneath the seat in front of the accompanying passenger. We require that the animal stay in the kennel (there are exceptions) in
order to reduce odor, noise, allergic reactions and unpleasant "accidents."
Additionally, the pet must be able to stand up in the kennel, which precludes large
animals from being accommodated. For the most part, no household pets are
allowed in the cabin on long transatlantic or transpacific flights (with the exception of service animals) or on flights to or from Hawaii.
While we appreciate the perspective of some that things would be a lot easier if pets were barred from the passenger cabin, the large number of our customers who want to travel with their animals don't share this view. So, I'm sure you appreciate our reasons for not applying any such ban unilaterally.



Mr. Stephen The Dog
We appreciate your compliments regarding Carmen Alvarez and while we're not able
to comply with your request for an autographed picture, I've forwarded a copy of your
letter to our Manager in San Juan. I'm sure Carmen will be delighted to read your
comments.

Mr. Dog, we hope you can travel with us soon. It would be our privilege to welcome you aboard.

We welcome all customer feedback. The next time you feel something deserves our
attention, please email us via AA.com at www.aa.com/customerrelations. We'll
receive your comments without delay and get back to you as soon as possible.

Sincerely,


Carol A. Alexander

Financial Friday #12 No one likes AIG

Financial Friday # 12

I know I have been saying for the last couple of week that the market is due to drop. This week we saw the market continue upwards but it seems to be losing momentum and I am looking for it to drop next week. I believe we are actually seeing the start of that trend today of course I am a dog so I could be wrong and even if I am wrong I am still cute.

AIG has been in the news all week and with the uproar over bonus I figured it was a good time to go short on AIG. Really when you make the news about govt involvement and executive bonuses it is never good.



Monday around market open I shorted 2300 shares of AIG at $1.50 Because this was a big move I used a stop to protect myself should bad things happen. I was able to cover my short at $.95 this morning this making $1265. I really don’t love shorting stocks but AIG seemed safe really you get most of America pissed off at you and you stock price is bound to go down.

If the market heads down next week like I am anticipating I think a BAC might be a good play but we will have to wait and see. Sometimes the market does not do what you think it will not matter how much time and effort you put into it.



Current balance: $4750

Disclaimer: I am a dog. I am not responsible for any investment decisions you make. Come on if you are reading a dog’s ODD to get ideas for you portfolio you have issues. I do not recommend using any of the information to make any investment decisions. Basically I am not responsible for your money. Do what you want but I have no responsibility here. Come on I am a dog. I don’t think you can even sue a dog. The information provided on this site is not financial advice and I am not a financial professional. This is a journal that details my investments, strategy, and analysis for personal use. Feel free to read at your own risk

Letter to Nabisco #2

Stephen TheDog
7 Barkington Ln
Woofington DE, 11735

March 25, 2009


Dear Nabisco,

Stephen TheDog here I am not sure if you remember but I have written to you before. I believe I worked with Kim McMiller last time. Is Kim still an Associate Director of Consumer Relations or ADCR if you will? I hope she is doing well.

First of all I would like to commend you for avoiding the whole peanut recall issue. My A and I love our Nutter Butters and we are so glad that they will not make us sick. In fact the only time I have ever seen Nutter Butter make anyone sick is when I watched my A eat a whole bag of them in half and hour. Man he loves those things. I don’t think it is a good idea to eat 50 Nutter Butters in 30 min though. Perhaps you might want to update you packaging to say something like “Nutter Butters guaranteed 100% salmonella free however we recommend you take it slow and don’t eat the whole bag in ½ and hour”

The reason I am writing is that I noticed what I believe to be a trial product in my last bag of nutter butters. I believe I got one of the 1st double nutter butters. As you know this is a cookie with filling followed by another cookie some more filling and finally a cookie top. I support this product as a step in the right direction but I think the double stuff Nutter Butter holds far more promise. As Kim can attest I am a huge advocate of the double stuff nutter butter. I am sure you guys can make it happen. I bet the Nutter Butter team would love to make a Double stuff I am sure that would shut those punk Oreo guys up for a while.

In my spare time between sleeping on the couch and Day trading, unfortunately there are no good jobs for dogs out there, I have been doing some test marketing for the Double Stuff Nutter Butter (DSNB). I have been making my own by the following method. Basically I take a Nutter Butter and peel off the top cookie then I take another one and do the same. Now I have two cookies with filling and two cookies without filling. I take the two cookies with filling and stick them together with the filling side in the middle thus making a DSNB. The plain cookies I have been putting in a box. I am sure you get the concept so I won’t go into it too much.

I have been selling these as Stephen TheDog’s DSNBs (STDDBNBs) and let me tell you people love them. I am even considering creating a multilevel marketing plan to get the STDDSNBs out there to more of the public. The hard part is I can not keep up with demand, which is why I am writing you. I have proven the DSMB concept works, there is demand there, and I can’t meet the demand I am generating so I feel this is a great time for Nabisco to launch the DSNB.

I know this is my idea but I want nothing in return for it other than the satisfaction or knowing people can buy DSNBs. It really is that simple I just want this great product in the market place.

Please let me know if there is anymore I can do to bring the DSNB to market. Also I have a bunch of boxes of plain nutter butter tops any ideas on what I should do with them? I would be willing to Donate them back to Nabisco to use on the DSNB line.

Thanks

Stephen TheDog
Chairman
Committee to Lobby for Double Stuff Nutter Butters


P.S. would it be possible to get an autographed photo of the Nutter Butter Bandit?

Goodbye Paul and Thanks

Last week was a tough week for my A. My A works in an office and no matter how many letters I write they just won’t let me go to work with him. I am not really sure what the issue is but I do know I am only allowed there at night.

I have seen some of the overnight guys in the Ops center and I am pretty sure I could at least hold my own. I am getting of the subject here. Well last week on Thursday my A’s fish died. Yup he had a fish at work living in a bowl on his desk. At the end he was really sick and my A did all he could for him but he still died.

It was rough on my A because Paul was there swimming around on his desk everyday for the last 2.5 years. Imagine having to go to work everyday for 2.5 years no matter what. I sort of feel bad for Paul he was stuck in an office all the time. I think my A is way more fun at home than at work. My A did let him sit on the window sill when it was sunny outside and would change his water every week. Really for a Beta fish he has a pretty good life.

It was always nice to know that when my A left to go to work he would at least have Paul there to keep him company. It really allowed me to worry less and focus on other things like Nut Silo, letter writing and day trading.
Paul will be missed.

Since I know you are all wondering. Services for Paul were very private and tasteful. A few words were said and he was laid to rest in the pond across the street from my A’s office where he will join Burt. Please as you are reading this take a brief moment and think of Paul I am sure it will mean a lot to my A.

In order to help fill the void left by Paul I have gotten my A some Triops which he will be hatching soon. This will be covered in more detail later but for today I wanted to focus my thoughts on Paul.

-S-

Financial Friday 11 Riding the marker wave with Ford

This week was crazy in the market. Yes the market went up but I am not comfortable with it I still think we are going to see another fall before things turn. This week I played it safe I bought Ford (F). Why because Ford makes cars and F is was trading around 2 come on how low can it go. Ford is also the strongest of the big 3 so I figured why not have to put the money somewhere. I bought on Monday right around market open at 2.20 and rode the market upswing till Thursday when I sold at 2.70.



Really I was counting on the limited downside to Ford and that is would follow the market as a whole. Basically it is a cheap stock so it moves a lot percentage wise when the market swings. Really I could have bought almost anything since I really just wanted a cheap stock that would follow the market as a whole. I like Ford though they gave us the assembly line and a whole lot of crappy country songs about trucks.

Anyway I bought 1290 shares at 2.20 and sold them at 2.70 thus making $645 this week on a play that was really just riding the market trend. Be careful I still think we are going to see a drop. Oil prices are climbing which is generally a signal that the market will do something.

Current balance: $3485

Disclaimer: I am a dog. I am not responsible for any investment decisions you make. Come on if you are reading a dog’s ODD to get ideas for you portfolio you have issues. I do not recommend using any of the information to make any investment decisions. Basically I am not responsible for your money. Do what you want but I have no responsibility here. Come on I am a dog. I don’t think you can even sue a dog. The information provided on this site is not financial advice and I am not a financial professional. This is a journal that details my investments, strategy, and analysis for personal use. Feel free to read at your own risk

Financial Friday #10

This week has been a good one for me. I was able to use the BAC chart to make some good money. Monday BAC was sitting at the bottom of the channel so I bought at $3.22 at market open. This looked really good so I threw my whole $2162 at it. This was risky but it looked perfect so I bought my 675 shares and waited. Sure enough it rode the bottom of the channel for a while and then bounce off hitting the top of the channel at $5.85 on Wednesday. I figure it would bounce off the top so once I saw it start to climb I kept pushing up my stops. I finally had a stop trigger at $5.39. I was able to clear 1479 or 68% in profit on this one trade. This is record for me I am so excited. I realize I took a huge risk but it just looked perfect and I am very happy with how it turned out. The MilkBones are on me this weekend.





Current balance: $2840

Disclaimer: I am a dog. I am not responsible for any investment decisions you make. Come on if you are reading a dog’s ODD to get ideas for you portfolio you have issues. I do not recommend using any of the information to make any investment decisions. Basically I am not responsible for your money. Do what you want but I have no responsibility here. Come on I am a dog. I don’t think you can even sue a dog. The information provided on this site is not financial advice and I am not a financial professional. This is a journal that details my investments, strategy, and analysis for personal use. Feel free to read at your own risk

The Truth about Haircuts

• 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It has been a while since I have written a non financial post. I have to admit I am enjoying making money there are so few ways a dog can get ahead in this world. I am currently enjoying the stock market rally looks like my Monday play for BAC is going to pay off.
  
  Ok I am not here to talk money today. No I am here to talk about haircuts. Recently I have seen a bunch of people posting about getting their children 1st haircuts. There has been video and still pictures it all seems a little over the top. I am guessing getting you hair cut is way more fun for people than it is for a dog.
  
  Let me tell you about how it is for me.
  
  I get to wake up early and am taken to my favorite store. I am forced to walk past all kind of yummy treats. I always hope I will be given one but my A never lets me. I then go into a back room where my A tells the groomer that he does not care about my hair. He says I am a dog and it will grow back. Obviously this does wonders for my self esteem. Next my A leaves and I am locked in a small metal cage to wait for my turn.
  
  When my turn comes I am lifted into a huge metal sink and washed with a spray hose. My glands are also exercised which I will let you look up on your own. Trust me it is not fun and is quite humiliating. After the bath I am placed back in the cage and two air ducts are attached. The ducts blow air on me, there is no where to hide in the cage so I am stuck being all wet and having air blown at me for like 45min.
  
  Once I am dry I am lifted up onto a table and a leash is placed around my neck and attached to a steel rod over my head. This is designed to keep me from sitting down but has the wonderful side effect of constricting around my throat and making me talk like Mickey Mouse.. For the next hour someone shaves off my hair with a very loud razor. It does not hurt but it is loud and it takes for ever. I am then placed back in the sink and washed again. Then it is back to the cage for some more wind tunnel time.
  
  After all this they throw some powder on me so I smell like a fairy and stick a bandana around my neck. I end up looking like a goof. Finally they call my A and say “Stephen is all set you can come pick him up” You would think my A would come right away but no he makes me sit in that cage for hours till he decides he is good and ready to come pick me up.
  
  Finally my A picks me up, pays and we get out of there. Let me tell you it is not fun. I have been cold the last week what kind of genius decides to shave off their fur coat in February? There is snow on the ground and I barely have a wind breaker. Personally I don’t want to remember my hair cuts. I wonder if little kids ever want to watch the video of their hair cuts. I bet if they had their glands exercised they sure would not. I won’t even get into the nail cutting.
  
  

Financial Friday #9

Crappy week in the Market this week. Pretty much everything took a dive. Currently all the financials seems to be consolidating so there are a bunch of long term buys out there. I like BAC at 3 as a long term buy and hold position. It may drop some more but odds are it is going to rebound in the near future. It could also go to zero but the buy in is low so it is decent gamble.

This week I moved away from financials Ford Motor company was showing a nice consolidation channel. I decided to short. I shorted 1000 shared at $1.92. I was able to get in right at the top of the channel. I stuck a stop behind it for protect but held as it fell out of the channel. The consolidation pattern lead me to believe it would break through the bottom line in the chart. It did and I was able to cover the short at $1.70. Thus I made $220



I am pulling my original $300 out. I have been lucky but I don’t want to risk my original capital so I am moving the $300 to a money market account

Currently balance
Trading 1862
Money Market 300

Total 2162

I promise I will get a non financial post up soon.

I have a response from American Airlines I need to figure out how to scan in.


Disclaimer: I am a dog. I am not responsible for any investment decisions you make. Come on if you are reading a dog’s ODD to get ideas for you portfolio you have issues. I do not recommend using any of the information to make any investment decisions. Basically I am not responsible for your money. Do what you want but I have no responsibility here. Come on I am a dog. I don’t think you can even sue a dog. The information provided on this site is not financial advice and I am not a financial professional. This is a journal that details my investments, strategy, and analysis for personal use. Feel free to read at your own risk

Financial Friday #8

Like I said last week I was looking for BAC, HIG, ABK and MBI to rebound this week. I noticed that BAC dipped under $4/share and I bought at 3.79/share. I bought 335 shares as I saw this as a huge opportunity. My A also bought 100 shares in his portfolio.

I sold out at $5.70 right after it hit the top of the channel thus making $2/share or $670. My A decided to stay in and put a stop order in a $5/share. Unfortunately at opening BAC fell from 5.67 to 4.40 before his stop triggered. I think my A ended up making like $10 on the trade after commissions. Just goes to show you that you should listen to the dog. Oh yeah and just because you put a stop in at 5 does not mean it will actually sell at 5.

Financials were getting hit hard on Friday so I am glad I got out early I expect that trend to continue into next week with a slight recovery near the end of the week or early the following week. The market is pushing these stocks down hard they will recover it is just a question of when.

Current balance: $1942

Disclaimer: I am a dog. I am not responsible for any investment decisions you make. Come on if you are reading a dog’s ODD to get ideas for you portfolio you have issues. I do not recommend using any of the information to make any investment decisions. Basically I am not responsible for your money. Do what you want but I have no responsibility here. Come on I am a dog. I don’t think you can even sue a dog. The information provided on this site is not financial advice and I am not a financial professional. This is a journal that details my investments, strategy, and analysis for personal use. Feel free to read at your own risk