Monday, August 21, 2006

All Aboard!

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

We’re It!

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:

• Louise - Heaving Breathing
• King Argus of Pugsville
• Riley - A Pug’s Life
• Ragus Pug
• Bubu

Monday, August 14, 2006

Sock Thief

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

Are you gonna pet me?

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.

Monday, August 7, 2006

Puppy Pictures

We were looking through the photo albums this weekend and we came across some adorable pics of the boys when they were puppies.  Here are some of my favorites.

This is a shot of the boys anxiously looking to see where everyone went.  We were visiting family when this shot was taken.  The boys are about a year old here and to me what is the funniest thing is that Benjamin is almost as tall as Henry.  Now that they are fully grown, Henry towers over Ben.

This shot was taken in Ocean City, MD.  We decided to take the boys to the beach for a day trip.  While walking on the boardwalk, we passed by a sign for Red Dog and of course could not resist making the boys pose next to a sign marked dog.  To complete his beach look, Benjamin is wearing an infant muscle tee.

Here is a shot of the boys sleeping in their toy basket at about 12 weeks old.  Before we brought the boys home, we went out and bought them a nice, lined wicker toy basket and filled it with toys.  We were young and naive because the boys had the toy box completely chewed in about one morning.  I guess we weren’t really thinking like a puppy when we bought the basket!

This is Baby Benny at about 12 weeks old.  When he was truly Baby Benny.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Joe Cool

While this summer has not been that hot by Florida standards, it is still quite toasty.  So, we take our walks early in the morning and later at nights.  This is Henry after a longer walk in the evening.  As we’ve blogged earlier, he is definitely the brains of the pug trio.  To cool down he will lay on the tile floor in the kitchen.  Benny will lay on the rug or pillow or even on one of the throw rugs in the kitchen but never on the cool tile.  Because of his “cool tile strategy,” Henry is usually the one that stops panting first.  Henry is not only “King of the Yard” but his is also “King of the Smarts.”

Monday, July 17, 2006

The Brains of the Bunch

Benjamin is the carb-cruncher and Luna is the feisty one, but do you know that Henry is really too smart for his own good?  Henry knows when we are in a rush and need him to go poopy quickly.  He’ll use this opportunity to hold out for a bribe of an apple softy treat.  As soon as we present the treat, he’ll present what we’ve been waiting for.  What a smarty pants.

We like it better, though, when he out smarts his siblings.  For example, when Benjamin and/or Luna are chewing a bone that Henry wants, Henry will create a false diversion to cause Benjamin and/or Luna to go see what the problem is, thus leaving their bones and giving Henry the choice of either chewy.  Usually Henry will bark at a fictitious person walking down the street to get the other two to come look out the front door and then Henry will scamper to the bones and snag one.

Or Henry will pretend to have found something very special in the toy box to get the other ones interested and when they fall for that trick, Henry has taken the real item that he wanted and the other one is left with what equates to an infomercial bust.  They had been sold, but then it wasn’t that cool after all.  That Henry, he is a slick one.

Benjamin is on to his games, though.  Stay tuned about how Benjamin has learned a little retaliation tactic.