Friday, March 28, 2008
I know it has been a long, rough winter for many of you, but hopefully signs of better weather are starting to show up here and there. My question for all you pug lovers out there is what are you most looking forward to doing with your pug this Spring?
Here are some of the things I am looking forward to doing with Benjamin, Henry & Luna:
- Swimming: The pool water should be warm enough for swimming soon. Weekend afternoons splashing around in the pool are my favorite.
- The Beach: It is warm enough to go to the beach now, but the ocean water is still too chilly for me. I love going to the beach with the pugs and floating with Henry, up and down over the waves, on the boogie board.
- Long walks: Spring is good weather for the pugs because it is not too hot. As soon as summer comes along we have to cut our walks way short because it is just too hot for the puggies.
- Playing in the yard: In good weather, after work, I like to grab an insane amount of toys and plop them in the backyard. Benny, Henry & Luna run around, chasing each other and picking up toys that are in their path. Plus, since none of the pugs are any good at fetch, it gives me lots of toys to throw to have them chase without me having to constantly fetch the toy myself.
Monday, March 24, 2008
The pine trees behind our house is home to many squirrels. The squirrels don’t really bother me and they provide great entertainment for the cat, but I think Benjamin, Henry & Luna enjoy the squirrels the most.
One of our neighbors keeps the squirrels well fed by providing shelled peanuts for them. The squirrels of course love this and they take a peanut up the tree and diligently chew on the shell until they can get the peanut out. After they eat the peanut, they drop the peanut shell from high up in the tree and it sails to the ground. Well, it seems that a lot of the peanut shells make their way into our backyard. Which to Benjamin, Henry & Luna is like treats falling from the sky.
They eagerly round up all the shells and they love to chew on them. I, however, don’t want them to have the peanut shells. So, I am constantly scanning the yard to make sure the squirrels haven’t left any presents for the pugs in the yard. Which is no easy task. Luckily, the squirrels seem to get fed in the early morning hours or in the evenings so those are the times that I really have to look out for.
I tell ya, I have some lucky pugs. Even the squirrels give them treats!
Friday, March 21, 2008
In yesterday’s First Day of Spring post, Christina left an interesting suggestion in the comments. She thought that Henry might enjoy his time poolside more if he had the mat from his bench. So, I gave it a try. In the afternoon, I put the mat down next to the pool and went back to work to see what the pugs might do. About 15 minutes later I saw this:
Little Luna, made herself comfortable on the mat.
It must have been Henry’s day off from life guard duty because he didn’t come around the pool yesterday afternoon. He was on bark out the front door duty all afternoon.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Well, today is the first day of Spring and I know a pug named Henry that is very happy about that. Henry thoroughly enjoys Spring. The weather is a touch on the warm side, yet not too hot for him. Which means he can spend his days doing one of his favorite things - sleeping way too close to the pool’s edge. Yesterday, he got a jump on Spring and resumed his normal position poolside.
Plus, in just a short time, it will be swimming season again and then he can break out the Pug Tug and drive his brother crazy by splashing around in the pool.
Happy Spring everyone!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Outside, near the pool, we have a little hide-a-way bench / storage container for all the pool toys and things. On top of the bench is a thin little green mat that always gets soaked when it rains. It poured the other day and the mat was of course drenched so I took it out and put it on the bench in the yard so that it would dry out quicker.
Well, wouldn’t you know, as soon as the mat dried it was soon occupied by pugs. The pugs sit on the bench in the yard all the time, but now that there is a little cushion on the bench they have become permanent fixtures.
Which leads the pugs to their next questions, “Why didn’t you put this cushion on the bench a lot sooner, Mom? It certainly does make things more comfortable.”
It’s all about comfort!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Last weekend, I felt inspired enough to get out in the garden and do some much needed cleanup to get ready for Spring. The pugs love to help in the garden, so I made sure to set things up so they could join me. They are very good at “watering” things in the garden, but not so good at picking weeds and things like that. In any case, they sure are great company.
However, it wasn’t long until Henry took to “supervising.”
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
So I have been reading the blogs of all our friends in snowy places, looking at all their winter wonderland pictures and thought I would share some pictures of Benjamin & Henry from winters past in Maryland. So today, we travel back to February 2003. The boys weren’t even a year old yet and Luna was not even a thought in our mind. If you asked if we were going to get a third pug our stomach would have hurt from laughing. At that time, having two puppies was way more difficult than I ever could have imagined. To this day, I’m not sure if I ever want another puppy again in my life.
But in any case, as bad as they were, Benjamin & Henry were up for anything and they had a ball romping around in all the white stuff..
This is classic Benjamin. While he loved the snow, he could only be out for a short amount of time. The cold snow was just too much for his delicate paws.
Henry never was one to stay on the beaten path and when it snowed, Henry always made a beeline to the undisturbed snow and trudged through and made his own path.
In Maryland, we lived near a library and when it snowed they plowed the snow into the parking lot into huge piles. The boys loved to run up the mounds and act like Kings of the world.
To my knowledge, Luna has never seen a flurry in her life. She is originally from Miami and when we adopted her she made the move to the northern part of central Florida. However, you would think that she moved to Antarctica. It gets a little chillier in this part of Florida than it does in Miami and she is forever shivering. If it gets anywhere near the 40’s we have to break out her winter coat. She is definitely a sunshine kind of girl. I have a feeling that if she was ever subjected to snow that she would be contacting Compassionate Pug Rescue and telling them that they needed to find her a new home.
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