Friday, October 28, 2005
One more breakfast topic blog. Breakfast is a high point in the day for all of us. I eat my cheerios and O.J. and share a banana with the boys. Well, most often the boys are curled up on their doggie bed nearby until the banana cracks open but sometimes, Ben will come sit at the table. That’s right, he’ll pull up a chair of his own just across from mine. It is a pretty funny sight because the kitchen chair seat cushions are coated with Teflon so as to repel pet hair. Well, just like with cooking, Teflon is slippery which is why it repels the hair. In this case, sometimes it repels the dog. Benjamin will sit on the chair (waiting for the banana) but as he waits, he is constantly sliding out the back of the chair so he must readjust and scoot towards the front of the chair where he will start the slide all over again. It sort of looks like he is a child playing on a mini “people mover”. You know, those things that help you get through the airport quicker. He slides back and scoots forward. Rinse & repeat. (Well, he doesn’t really rinse. He just repeats.) I am waiting for the day that he actually falls out of the chair. So far he has proven to be a pug with good balance. As per usual, though, Henry, the smarter and more patient of the two, lingers on the doggie bed until the banana is peeled and then he moseys over to hang around for his few bites.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
So, here is the follow up to the bananas for breakfast scenario from yesterday. As many of you know from following the blog, the boys eat a special home cooked diet which consists of ground turkey, oatmeal, yogurt and pumpkin. Well, one of my favorite places to eat dinner out is Bob Evans. Now that it is the fall season, Bob Evans offers pumpkin bread with the meals. While pumpkin bread is one of my favorite holiday treats, I had plenty of dinner to eat and decided to take home leftovers (or a “doggie bag”). So, I brought home a slice of pumpkin bread. The bread was stored in a Ziploc baggie but that did not stop Benjamin from picking up the scent. Of course, Henry, knowing Benny’s nose is never wrong, trotted off to follow him. I unzipped the baggie and tore off a little piece for them to try. After one small bite it was as though their little expressions said, “Mama, our pumpkin never tasted like this before!” And of course, there went baby Benny into his up, down, up down. (You’d think he was doing calisthenics.) I gave them one more small piece apiece. (They are on a special diet to help keep them fit and because they have digestive issues, so they really shouldn’t even have table scraps but what can I say? I AM the weakest link.) Fortunately, for all of us, the pumpkin bread from Bob Evans is seasonal.
Monday, October 24, 2005
This is a pretty typical view of the morning’s daily events. The last thing I do in the morning is eat breakfast which usually consists of a bowl of cheerios, a banana and a glass of orange juice. Well, bananas are one of the boys’ favorite “table scraps”. So, each day, there stand Benjamin & Henry putting on their cutest “I’m starving” faces. (Henry demonstrates his below)
They don’t begin to stir until they hear the snapping sound of the opening of the banana. Sometimes, if I am feeling very generous, I will dip the banana in the cheerios and a few will stick to the banana so that they have a nice crunchy/mushy combination. It is a true testament to their different personalities, though. Henry will wait patiently but wide eyed for the next sliver of banana to come his way. But bouncy baby Benny will go from the sit position to having both front paws on my thigh in a split second and then repeat this process. Up, down, up, down. He is chock full of excited “I love banana” energy. And there sits Henry, still waiting. His eyes seem to pop out of his head, but he is still patient. Henry just sits waiting, waiting, waiting as Benjamin bounces and circles. I guess they can’t wait for their daily potassium intake. They just use their time differently while waiting. Tomorrow I will tell you about another special treat that they got for breakfast.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
I recently had an early morning flight and I had packed some Cheerios to snack on during my trip. I didn’t finish all of my Cheerios and I had forgotten that I left the leftovers in my bag.
My bag was laying in my office for just a short while before Benny began to circle it. After he got a good whiff of the Cheerios he began to paw and scratch at the bag until he managed to pull out the bag full of Cheerios. He pushed the bag around the room for a bit until he managed to put a small hole in the Ziploc bag. After he had punctured a small hole in the bag, he diligently worked to pull Cheerios out of the tiny hole. After about 15 minutes of hard work, he finally got his first Cheerio. He was so proud of himself.
Despite the fact that I found Benjamin rummaging through my things, I decided to reward his shenanigans by giving both Benjamin and Henry a handful of Cheerios. They were very pleased.
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Whenever the paper towel roll runs out the boys and I always have a little bit of fun playing with cardboard tube that is left. They fetch it, play tug with it, tear it up and turn their heads from side to side as I utter weird things through the tube. So imagine my surprise when the blinds I ordered for our sliding door arrived in a huge tube over 8 feet long - which to the boys was just a gigantic paper towel roll!
After I unpacked the tube the boys were having a blast barking and running around the tube - no fetching with this one. They were a bit afraid of the tube and wouldn’t really come too close to it, so I set the tube at an angle and started sliding treats through the tube to the boys on the other side. Well, once the tube started dispensing treats the boys willing came around and started sticking their heads up the tube searching for more prizes. Looking through the tube at the boys here is what I could see.
The boys had a great time playing with the tube and finding all of the treats. Needless to say, when we were finished I had the thrill of hanging the blinds!
Thursday, September 1, 2005
The boys are generally well behaved, model pug citizens. Sometimes, so well behaved that I feel bad, like they never get to have any of that “I know I’m being bad, but this is just too much fun” kind of bad.
So last Saturday morning, after I was finished reading the newspaper the boys were pretty playful so I decided to let them shred the paper. Shredding paper was one of their favorite things, that I never really let them do while they were pups, so I thought that I would let them go to town ripping the paper to bits. At first the boys were reluctant to get started, but after I started ripping some pages myself they got into the act and had a good time running around the house with bits of paper flying everywhere.
We all had a blast and the paper wasn’t too hard to get cleaned up. I know, shredding paper isn’t really that “bad”, but the boys were having some of that mischievous fun and that’s all that really matters.
Monday, August 22, 2005
There is nothing Benny likes more than a big pile of pillows! Whenever Ben gets tired and nobody is sitting down to hold him he always finds a nice pillow to snuggle up with. Most of the time he heads for my bed and flips all the pillows around until he gets them just right.
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