Friday, June 5, 2009
Yesterday, Luna & Sol visited the eye vet for their checkups. Sol's visit was just for a routine checkup. The last time we were there, they put her on drops to slow cataract growth and we have seen a great improvement in the cloudiness in her eyes. The Dr. agreed that Sol is doing well and we are going to keep the same drop plan for her.
Luna was not due for a checkup, but we brought her in with Sol because we noticed a small bump developing on her upper eye lid. Given her history, we didn't waste anytime getting her in to have it looked at. Her diagnosis was an obstructed gland in her eyelid. At this point we are hoping we will be able to clear this up with a few medications. In about 2 weeks time we will know if the medications are going to work and we will revisit the eye doc with Luna. Hopefully, things will have cleared up, otherwise, Luna will need to have a procedure to drain the clogged gland. She will not need to be put under, however. How they will drain the gland without putting her under is beyond me, but I trust that they have their ways.
The silver lining in all of this is that the blocked gland does not seem to be bothering Luna at all. They eye doc said that she would be pawing at her eye if she was experiencing any discomfort and we have not seen her messing with her eye at all.
She is a trooper. She takes all her many drops each day like a champ and has battled through all of her different eye maladies as well as anyone could expect. I feel bad for her because it seems like we never get any good news about her eyes, but overall, I think she handles her limited vision very well. She runs through the house with the rest of them and adapts very well to new situations. Over the years, we have learned her limitations and her weaknesses and that has helped a lot. It at least keeps her from doing face plants at the beach.
Friday, May 29, 2009
The pugs all have their odd ways when it comes to settling down in their beds. Sol & Henry fall into the "circler" category. They get into their bed and turn around a few times before they plop themselves down. Benjamin & Luna fall into the "scratcher" category. They basically prop themselves up on their head and then use their front paws to scratch as fast as they can. It is quite an amusing sight to watch Luna or Ben practically doing a head stand so they can get their bed just right. And for once, I finally got a few shots of Luna in action when she was trying to settle.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Luna just loves to lay on the lounge chair by the pool in the morning hours before it gets too hot. I’m hoping that I might be able to join her one day this weekend.
Have a great weekend and Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.
Friday, April 17, 2009
There is a doggie door just to your left. Feel free to use it any time.
The girls are also nicely framing one of the best things we have ever bought - a top entrance litter box for the cat. Why so much excitement over a litter box? Well, when the boys were puppies they picked up the nasty habit of fishing in the litter box. It was disgusting and keeping them out of the litter box while giving the cat free access to the litter box became a real pain. Then I discovered a top entrance litter box at Petsmart one day. It is essentially like a plastic storage container with a hole cut in the top. With a $30 price tag, we passed on buying the box the first time we saw it and tried to make our own. The sturdiness of the lid was a big issue after we cut a hole in it and since I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize the cat’s litter box experience, we shelled out the $30 bucks for the real thing and it has absolutely been a perfect solution to our problem.
Lucky for us, the cat isn’t too picky about her litter box design.
And speaking of the cat, she is probably the one that uses the doggie door the most!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Luna loves to sit under the glass table in the living room. All the pugs sit under it from time to time, but she seems to be the perfect height and can sit upright and not hit her head. It took her awhile to realize that should could not lick a crumb off the table from under the glass, but she is finally hip to the game now. This realization has made dinner a lot less entertaining 
Have a great weekend everyone!
Monday, April 6, 2009
A typical workday for the pugs. While I work on the computer they work on soaking up the rays of the sun.
Monday, March 30, 2009
The pugs always wake up at an obscene hour for breakfast. And by pugs I mean Benjamin. Benny usually starts sometime between 5am and 6am jumping around wanting to eat. I usually hold him off until it is time to get up for work, but on the weekends this doesn’t really work too well. So I get up at his normal feeding time, take them out in the yard to go potty, give them their breakfast and then sneak back to bed for a few more hours of sleep.
Yesterday morning, I woke up to tags jingling, glanced at the clock and saw that it said 5:12am. My immediate thought was 5am on a Sunday, Benny, you got to be kidding me! So I grumbled something to him to let him know that he is crazy and that he needed to go back to bed. But my grumbling was not heeded and I heard a pug dancing around not taking no for an answer. I pried my eyes open to see what was going on and I saw little Luna staring back at me. While Luna is always quick to join in on Benny’s breakfast crusade, she is never the one to start it.
Thinking that Luna might just need to go potty, I got up and took her to the yard. Benny and Henry joined us and I scooped up Sol so that I only needed to make one trip to the yard in my stupor. Luna wasn’t in much of a hurry to go potty, so I wasn’t sure why she was dancing around the bed so early. As we were coming back into the house, all the pugs made a mad dash for the kitchen and while it went against my principles to feed them so early in the morning I did it anyway because I certainly didn’t want to get up to do it about an hour later. After the pugs ate, we all crawled back into bed and as soon as my head hit the pillow, I heard a clap a thunder and then the sound of rain beating on the roof. It was pouring. At that point, I remembered they were calling for pretty bad thunder storms to move through the area in the early morning hours. I laid in bed listening to the rain and the thunder. Luna snuggled up beside me and was quite pleased with herself. By getting up when she did she saved her paws from getting wet!
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