I spent most of the weekend working on the calendar, so the pugs had lots of chewing time this weekend. They had nice new knucklebones to keep them busy while I worked, but their chewing reminded me of something I wanted to blog about awhile back.
Henry has a thing with compressed rawhide bones. Instead of just chewing them, he likes to peel the rawhide off in layers. Unfortunately, he is quite good at it too! As he peels away the layers, I take them away because they are what we call “choking hazards”.
Benjamin hates it when Henry unravels a rawhide bone. Benjamin’s preferred plan of attack is to get the bone so slobbery on an end that it pretty much turns to mush.
Depending on the size of the rawhide strip that Henry pulls off, we sometimes let Luna chew on it. Luna has such a tiny mouth that she couldn’t even come close to getting the larger pieces into her mouth. She will happily chew for hours on a piece of rawhide that we had to take away from Henry.
On a completely different note, how is everyone that was in Ike’s path doing? I hope everyone is OK.
Both Luna and Benjamin love to snuggle with Henry. I think it is because Henry is not a wiggle worm. Once he gets comfortable he will usually stay put. Then Benjamin & Luna come join him.
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.
I got a very cool camera for my birthday that can take pictures underwater and I finally got a chance to put it to use on Friday night. I got some underwater video of Henry fetching his favorite toys from the pool.
Mr. I like to sleep and walk right on the pool’s edge went a little too far this weekend. Luna was sitting about a foot away from the pool’s edge minding her own business, when Henry came over and was trying to get her to play and clean her ears and things like that. Of course, he stood between Luna and the pool and with all his wiggling around he lost his footing and went straight into the pool. In the deep end and all the way under. He popped up and was quickly plucked out of the pool. He gave himself a good shake and gave me a look that said, “I don’t want to hear a word!”
He likes the pool, so this wasn’t a huge deal to him. Just really bruised his ego because for a while he thought he was invincible walking so close to the pool’s edge.
But knowing Henry, and knowing that the boy has horrible balance, I knew it was just a matter of time until he would take an impromptu dip. So did he learn his lesson? Of course not! Five minutes later he was sleeping right on the edge of the pool.
