Category: Oliver

Oliver’s Corner is where our shop dog Oliver — a very good red fox lab — talks about what’s happening at Good 4 Guns. Mostly snacks. Sometimes books.

Hi friends! Oliver here. 🐾

I’ve had a very big spring. I’ve sniffed approximately forty-seven new smells, fallen in one creek (on purpose), been complimented on my ears by six separate customers, and — most importantly — finished my second book.

📗 Oliver’s Safety Squad: Spring Adventures

You may remember my first book, where my lamb Clover and I learned about the 4H fair. Well, Clover came home with me (because she’s the best lamb in the world and obviously belongs with her dog), and now we have a whole new book about exploring the outdoors together.

It’s called Oliver’s Safety Squad: Spring Adventures, and it covers all the very real things a Safety Pup needs to know about a North Texas spring:

• 🌿 What plants to leave alone (leaves of three, let it be!)
• 🐍 What to do when you spot a snake (stay calm, back away, let it go about its business)
• 🔥 Why fire ants are not your friend (Clover figured this out before me — she’s smarter than I look)
• 💧 How creeks change in a storm (this is the big one)
• 🌧️ When to come inside and have a cozy day instead

It’s 13 coloring pages plus a note for the grown-ups, designed for kids ages 4-8, and it’s the kind of book parents can read along with — gently building good outdoor instincts without making the whole world feel scary.

Clover is on every single page, in case you were worried.

[Stop in to grab a copy! / Available at the shop now / or Download it here]

💐 A Free Printable for Mother’s Day!

Now for the part I’m most excited about. (Well, second most excited. The book is also up there.)

We made a free printable Mother’s Day card you can color at home. It’s got me and Clover on the front, surrounded by spring flowers, with a little prompt inside that says “You’re the best because ___” — so the kid in your life can fill it in with whatever makes their mom (or grandma, or aunt, or chosen mom-figure) the most wonderful person in their world.

It’s foldable. It’s printable on regular paper. It’s free. And honestly, the answers kids write in that blank are usually better than anything Hallmark could come up with.

[👉 Download Oliver’s Mother’s Day Card]

Print it. Color it. Hand it to someone who deserves to feel special on May 10th.

We hope Oliver and Clover make someone in your house smile this week.

🐾🍀💐

— Oliver (and Cassie, who types the words because Oliver lacks thumbs)

The store has been rearranged. Oliver was not consulted.

After a thorough inspection — which involved three full laps, two extended sniff sessions, and one very long stare at the new CRKT display that is now occupying his favorite floor patch — Oliver has filed his findings.

The ammo shelf has moved. This is significant, because the ammo shelf had a specific smell profile that Oliver had carefully cataloged over several months, and now that smell is in a completely different part of the store. He has been forced to re-sniff the entire building from scratch. He wants you to know this was not a small inconvenience. The CRKT display, while admittedly interesting from a sniffing perspective, has displaced his preferred afternoon lounging zone. He is currently evaluating alternative floor locations and will report back when a suitable replacement has been identified. His couch did not move. This was the only acceptable outcome, and he would like it noted that any future rearrangements should begin with confirming the couch stays where it is.

Oliver’s official rating of The Great Rearrange: 3 out of 5 paws. Points deducted for the floor patch situation. Points awarded for new sniffing opportunities.

If Oliver isn’t at the counter when you walk in, don’t take it personally. He’s probably in the middle of something.

On any given day, you might find him guarding a toy that doesn’t belong to him, lounging on the CMO’s couch like he pays rent, or lying belly-up on the floor in a position that suggests he has no bones. He might be mid-inspection on a shipment that just came in, or staring at someone’s lunch with a level of focus he never brings to his actual job. Occasionally, he’s in the back doing something he’s been asked to stop doing. He will not elaborate.

But the moment he hears that door open, whatever he’s doing becomes yesterday’s news. You are now the most important thing that has ever happened to him. He will greet you like you’ve been gone for years. This is not an act. He means it every single time.
(Unless he’s napping, in which case nothing will rouse him save the opening of a cheese wrapper)