Tuesday, September 26, 2006
The clamshell chair in the living room is one of Benjamin, Henry and Luna’s favorite sleeping spots in the house. It seems like there is always at least one pug in the chair at all times and most of the time, all three are piled up there. Benjamin and Henry have always been partial to that sleeping spot because they can catnap and still see out the front door. So they can bark at passersby from the lap of luxury.
While they all sit in that chair pretty regularly, I have had a hard time getting a picture of them. Every time, I go near them with the camera, Luna jumps from the chair and comes running up to the camera. I must have caught her while she was extra sleepy because she didn’t budge when I got out the camera this morning. The little one is so tuckered out that I even got a picture of her mid yawn. Although, she looks like she has had a little bit too much to drink. She’s a trip!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Henry doesn’t have quite as many nicknames as Benjamin, but his nicknames are far more of a stretch back to his “proper” name. From Henry, we would call him Hank and from there, that evolved to Hankey, but that sounded too much like a tissue. From Hankey, that turned into Hank E. Doodle or Hankee Doodle like Yankee Doodle. Its funny, whenever we want him to come we always say, “Paging Mr. Doodle, Mr. Hank E. Doodle.” He has caught on and will come running whenever he gets paged.
When we are lazy, we’ll call him H. Doodle or when he is lazy, we call him “Dawdling Doody.” Sometimes he acts like the pokey little puppy. He does like to dawdle. The funniest thing about the nickname Hankee Doodle is that we sing Yankee Doodle to him and make the words fit his life. One day he heard Yankee Doodle on the TV, around the 4th of July, and as he listened, he cocked his head to the side as he was puzzled about why they would be singing about him on TV. So, little ol’ Henry is also known as Doodle or more formally H. Doodle.
Friday, August 25, 2006
A while back, I wrote about how Benny started sleeping the cat’s favorite basket. To help accommodate both of them, I added a second basket to my desk so there would be one for each of them. That sounds like it would be an ideal solution, but each of them only likes the one basket. Now these baskets are practically identical, but they each prefer the older basket and neither one of them will have anything to do with the newer basket. So like any good siblings, Benjamin and Cupid the cat are forced to share the same basket.
The other day, when neither Benjamin nor the cat were around, Henry decided to test out the basket and see what all the fuss is about.
Monday, August 21, 2006
We went swimming this weekend and of course Henry joined us. He played fetch for awhile and after he tired a bit, he was ready to get in his boat. It is quite funny to watch. When he is ready to go in the “Pug Tug” he waits until the boat gets close to the edge and then he jumps right in. After that he makes himself comfortable. He could float in his boat for hours!
Friday, August 18, 2006
The adorable Shelby the pug and the lovely lady Pugsley have tagged us and asked us to list 5 strange things about Benjamin, Henry and Luna. Then we must tag 5 other pugs sites. So here we go.
Benjamin
- Benjamin takes his “puffy”, a furry little disc, to bed with him every night.
- Ben’s ears are always inside out.
- Ben sleeps in the cat’s box.
- Benjamin is terrified of sewers. We have to plan our walks so that we do not come too close to sewers and if he sees a sewer he gets real close the the ground and will scrape his nails trying to run away.
- Benjamin’s favorite treat is cat litter.
Henry
- Henry will not give you a kiss (lick you on the lips). He simply refuses.
- On walks Henry likes to walk as far as he can and then just lays down. He never wants to start heading back home, he always wants to go farther, but he never thinks the farther he walks now the farther he has to walk to get back home.
- You can not go to the bathroom without Henry coming with you. He thinks that is a perfect time for petting. And if you close the door without letting him in, he will have a tantrum.
- When we eat, Henry sits at our feet at the table, making a variety of different Star Wars noises. Its his way of begging.
- Henry cleans Benjamin and Luna’s ears all the time, but he despises having his own ears cleaned.
Luna
- Luna is narcoleptic. She will be running, full steam around the house one second and then the next she is sound asleep in some odd place.
- Luna sleeps like a bat. Flat on her back, going the opposite direction of everyone else in bed, with her ears sprawled out.
- Luna has started lifting her leg to pee, or I should say her whole back end. She has been hanging around her brothers too long. It is very amusing to watch.
- Luna’s tail never stops wagging.
- Luna rarely barks.
Here’s who we are tagging next:
Monday, August 14, 2006
It is not uncommon to end up missing a sock in our house. If the dryer doesn’t eat your sock, Henry surely will. Henry will snag your sock and run around the house with it every chance he gets.
It is a good thing that socks come in pairs because as soon as Henry finds a sock for himself, Benjamin always wants one as well.
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
After snapping a couple pictures of Henry grazing in the yard, Henry was adamant that I spend some time petting him. He parked himself at my feet and just gazed at me with that classic Henry look. I of course complied and spent some time in the yard petting him. It lasted about 5 minutes. After that we were both too hot and had to go inside to cool down.
