Monday, March 24, 2008
The pine trees behind our house is home to many squirrels. The squirrels don’t really bother me and they provide great entertainment for the cat, but I think Benjamin, Henry & Luna enjoy the squirrels the most.
One of our neighbors keeps the squirrels well fed by providing shelled peanuts for them. The squirrels of course love this and they take a peanut up the tree and diligently chew on the shell until they can get the peanut out. After they eat the peanut, they drop the peanut shell from high up in the tree and it sails to the ground. Well, it seems that a lot of the peanut shells make their way into our backyard. Which to Benjamin, Henry & Luna is like treats falling from the sky.
They eagerly round up all the shells and they love to chew on them. I, however, don’t want them to have the peanut shells. So, I am constantly scanning the yard to make sure the squirrels haven’t left any presents for the pugs in the yard. Which is no easy task. Luckily, the squirrels seem to get fed in the early morning hours or in the evenings so those are the times that I really have to look out for.
I tell ya, I have some lucky pugs. Even the squirrels give them treats!
Friday, March 21, 2008
In yesterday’s First Day of Spring post, Christina left an interesting suggestion in the comments. She thought that Henry might enjoy his time poolside more if he had the mat from his bench. So, I gave it a try. In the afternoon, I put the mat down next to the pool and went back to work to see what the pugs might do. About 15 minutes later I saw this:
Little Luna, made herself comfortable on the mat.
It must have been Henry’s day off from life guard duty because he didn’t come around the pool yesterday afternoon. He was on bark out the front door duty all afternoon.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Well, today is the first day of Spring and I know a pug named Henry that is very happy about that. Henry thoroughly enjoys Spring. The weather is a touch on the warm side, yet not too hot for him. Which means he can spend his days doing one of his favorite things - sleeping way too close to the pool’s edge. Yesterday, he got a jump on Spring and resumed his normal position poolside.
Plus, in just a short time, it will be swimming season again and then he can break out the Pug Tug and drive his brother crazy by splashing around in the pool.
Happy Spring everyone!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Outside, near the pool, we have a little hide-a-way bench / storage container for all the pool toys and things. On top of the bench is a thin little green mat that always gets soaked when it rains. It poured the other day and the mat was of course drenched so I took it out and put it on the bench in the yard so that it would dry out quicker.
Well, wouldn’t you know, as soon as the mat dried it was soon occupied by pugs. The pugs sit on the bench in the yard all the time, but now that there is a little cushion on the bench they have become permanent fixtures.
Which leads the pugs to their next questions, “Why didn’t you put this cushion on the bench a lot sooner, Mom? It certainly does make things more comfortable.”
It’s all about comfort!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
This is the scene in the early morning hours. Looking forward to your captions in the comments.
Monday, March 17, 2008
I have been reading the book, Eco Dog and there have been several projects that I have very anxious to undertake. The other day I decided to make the doggie meatloaf that was in the book. The recipe called for ground beef, oatmeal, mixed veggies, eggs, flaxseed and garlic. You mix it all together in a bowl and then bake it in the oven for about an hour.
It turned out pretty good. The next time I make it I think I am going to go with a leaner meat. Probably 99% fat free ground turkey to cut down on the grease. But, the pugs, they gave their seal of approval when they chowed it down.
It was a little something different for them and I think they enjoyed it.
Friday, March 14, 2008
With poor vision and a stature that barely lets her see out the front door, Luna isn’t much of an intimidating presence. Her usual role is to merely support her brothers in barking at whatever they spot outside the door and to show whoever dares to walk in front of the house that if the pugs should so happen to get out from behind this glass door you will be covered in pug kisses three fold. They have the oddest way of going about saying hello - they bark their heads off. But, if you were to let them out they would be as nice and charming as a pug can be.
There have been a few times, and I emphasize a few, that Luna was the lone pug to spot something going on out the front door. And I really wished this happened more often, because it really cracks me up. Usually, Luna is not one bit aware of what she is barking at out the front door. She simply barks because that is what her brothers are doing. But if she happens to spot something that her brothers do not, she tenses up, her ears go into a total alert position and you can just see her straining to see. She stands totally quiet for a second or two trying so hard to process what is going on and wondering why her brothers are not leading the charge. Then, in spurts, she let’s out a Dino-esque bark. When she barks her hind feet leave the ground a bit and after a few barking spurts she is frantically looking for her brothers. You can just see that she is overwhelmed by the responsibility of being the only one to spot the passerby. That she is totally not confident in her ability to take on a task this big, but yet the task is way to important to be ignored. So she sounds the alarm and her brothers can never get there quick enough to suit her. You can just tell that the whole situation is playing out in slow-motion in her head.
Without fail, one if not both of her brothers charge the door and Luna quickly resumes her supporting barker role. A role she is much more comfortable starring in.
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