Monday, March 20, 2006
Weekday mornings are pretty hectic around here. We get up, feed the dogs, go for a short walk, get ready for work, eat breakfast and then rush off to work. Weekends are great because there is usually extra time to sit around and talk after eating breakfast. During this time, a pug or two will usually join you at the table and quietly rest on your lap. There is nothing better than down time with the gang.
Friday, March 17, 2006
This odd shot is a picture of Luna’s chest while she is laying on her back. As a result of mange, Luna has some bald patches in her coat. Now that she no longer has mange we are hoping some of her fur will start to grow back. If you look real close at the picture above you can see where new fur growth is starting. The new growth is mainly on the right by her paw.
We are so proud, our baby girl is starting to get hair on her chest! 
Monday, March 13, 2006
Benjamin, Henry & Luna all have paws that have multi-colored toenails. Some nails are really dark while others are on the lighter side. Luna’s nails seem to have the most color difference. Does your pug have multi-colored nails?
Friday, March 10, 2006
A great thing about Luna is that she is sufficient enough to hold her own bones. The boys, while they can manage if left to their own devices, prefer if someone holds their bone while they chew. This was a bad habit that we started when they were puppies. Whenever the boys get a bone, they scan the room for someone sitting down with a free hand (well they don’t really care if your hands are free or if you or busy or any of that).
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Henry is a very vocal pug. It seems like he has a lot to say. When a stranger comes into the house, it is not uncommon to have Henry sit at their feet and bark at them. Now, you are probably saying that a dog barking at a stranger is pretty normal, but he isn’t barking to be aggressive or to get the stranger out of his house. His bark is a little “woo woo woo woo” and is very calm and almost playful. He doesn’t jump on them or growl. It is pretty obvious that he is trying to tell them something, we just don’t know what.
Henry does the same thing with Luna. He will walk up to her and just start barking at her. Most of the time this makes Luna jump on Henry and they start to play, but sometimes Luna just sits there with a blank look on her face. This, of course, makes Henry bark louder.
In addition to barking, Henry has now started pawing at Luna to get her to play. He will walk over to her and tap her on her back as if to say, “Your it!” Other times he will throw himself on the ground, roll over to his back and waive his paws at her. All in an effort to have his little sister pay attention to him.
Monday, March 6, 2006
We have had Luna for a little over a month and one of the things I have learned about her is that she is nearly impossible to photograph. Every time I reach for the camera she stops what she is doing and comes running over to me. If I try to get on her level to take a picture she comes and sits at my feet. If I lay down to get on her level, she climbs on my back and makes herself comfortable.
It is amusing and very different from the boys. The boys are so used to having the camera out that they are not fazed when I am walking around them pointing and shooting pictures. They just look at me like “There she goes again!” and they don’t budge.
Today, I feel like we had a breakthrough and Luna is starting to get used to having a camera pointed at her. Now hopefully, I will be able to get more good shots of the little girl.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Luna, our newest pug who recently came to our family has some medical issues. One of her issues is that she has chronic dry eye and she must be given several eye drops each day.
In the morning she receives her first dose. She gets a drop of Cyclosporin in each eye. About 5 minutes later, she must get a drop of NeoPolyDex in her right eye and a drop in her left eye every other day. The third medicated drop is Tacrolimus. She gets this dose about 5 minutes after the NeoPolyDex. That is the morning routine.
Midday is a little easier with only the one dose of Tacrolimus in the right eye. In the evenings, the routine is the same as the mornings.
The one medicine, Tacrolimus, is designed to help stimulate her own natural tear production and it does seem to be working. She will go in for a follow-up visit to the opthamologist in about a month to see if it just our imagination or if it is actually helping. In any case, she will have to be on at least one of these drops, if not all 3, for the rest of her life most likely.
The good thing is that Luna really seems to know that the drops help her to feel better because she generally does a really good job about allowing us to put the drops in her eyes. Her vision isn’t terrific, though. The vet compares her eyesight to that of a frosted car window. She can see light but not a lot of shadows or shapes (out of her right eye).
Her left eye, while also suffering from dry eye, is not quite as bad. Her sight is pretty good in that eye. It can be odd, though, because she can see to jump up on things (and boy, does she ever jump on things—the coffee table, the end table and any other flat surface that she can manage to spring herself on top of.) However, she cannot see to get down off of these obstacles. She’ll get up there but then she’s stuck. Fortunately, we are always there to help the little acrobat decend her monumental climbs.
Hopefully, in time, the meds will be able to help restore at least a small part of her lost vision and then one day she’ll be able to get herself out of trouble.
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