Do you remember a while back when I tweeted about Benny trying to mark something out of his reach and peeing on his paw? Well, those pretty flowers in the hanging basket, just above Benny’s head in this photo, are what Benny was trying to mark when he had his little incident. Despite dirtying up his paw, Benny did not give up in trying to claim them for his own. The other morning, around 3am, Benny needed to go out to go potty. We both made our way outside and Benny attempted to mark the flowers again. In his tired stupor, Benny lifted his leg but lost his footing on the rocks which caused him to knock into the hanging pot. The pot, in turn, swung back and nearly knocked Benny off his feet. Flower pot 2, Benny 0.
On Friday night I gave the pugs a bath. Everything was business as usual. The pugs each took turns and they ran around the house after they were all cleaned up. As I was finishing up in the bathroom, the pugs came barreling in and were wrestling around. That is when I noticed one of them was bleeding all over the tile. We quickly determined that it was Benjamin. In all his running around, he must have cracked his toenail because that was were all the blood was coming from. However, it must not have hurt because it didn’t slow him down one bit. We got the bleeding stopped in no time and then I braced myself to see the damage. I was quite surprised at how much ground Benny had covered since his bath. He had blood from one end of the house to the other. Luckily, most of it was on the tile which made for easy cleanup. However, he did manage to get quite a bit of blood on our comforter. You know the one.
So I figured that now would be a good time to give the blood setting on the washing machine a try again. It has gotten blood out of clothes in the past so I was keeping my fingers crossed hoping it would work its magic again.
The blood setting takes forever, so I threw the comforter in the wash and went on to other things. When the washer was finally done we pulled it out and looked it over to see if the blood stains came out. The good news is the blood came out! The bad news is that in some spots it turned the red circles into orange circles! It must have mistaken them for blood
So now our comforter is a nice gradient. I couldn’t keep from laughing. If someone remarks that the circles are orange, I am just going to correct them and tell them they aren’t orange, their Benjamin’s version of red.
Benny is pouting because he knows I am about to clean his dirty little wrinkles. It is hot and humid and he has been out playing a lot lately and all those things make his wrinkles a mess. Got to keep on top of my cranky old man’s wrinkles
I always love it when Benjamin, Henry & Luna smoosh together even though they have plenty of room to spread out. They act like this is the only sunny spot in the house.
With it being so hot lately, they have been doing a lot of laying around. We have been going for walks in the evenings which have been great. Last night we got about 3/4’s of a mile away from home and the sky behind us began to look a bit ominous so we turned around and contemplated on taking a shortcut back home. After some debate, we took the shortcut and made it home 7 minutes before it poured down rain. It was a fun little race against Mother Nature.
Life with Benny involves a lot of bone holding. We spoiled him when he was a pup and would hold his bone for him while he chewed so needless to say we have raised a pug that couldn’t hold his own bone if his life depended on it. You reap what you sow, I guess.
In any case, Benny loves to chew so we do a lot of bone holding for him and when we are unable to hold his bone we must come up with a creative way to simulate us holding the bone. Like wedging it between sofa cushions. But, while Benny loves to chew he certainly isn’t a very effective chewer. This goes back to my do the things you love even if you are not the best at them thing that I learned from Henry.
When Benny chews a rawhide bone all he does is soften it up with his slobber. He will work for hours on end, but never really gets anything. When Henry chews we have to keep a very close eye on him to keep him from eating too much at one time. Even Luna, who has the smallest mouth I have ever seen on a pug, can chew circles around Ben.
But it is all moot because there is really nothing Benny likes to do more than go to town chewing a bone while you graciously hold it for him. And this, my friends, is what that is like.
Benjamin, Henry & Luna each got baths on Sunday. They were quite smelly so not only did we bathe them but we washed pretty much everything they come in contact with, which meant the house smelled really good on Sunday.
After his bath, Benny always gets fired up and runs around like a wild man. Here is a little video of him running around the living room. At around 16 seconds you will seem him stop and smell under the laundry room door. There is blueberry bread behind that door!
