Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Caption This #95

Causing a ruckus at the door.  Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Watching Over

Benjamin & Luna sitting on my desk watching over me as I write a blog post.  They wanted to make sure I didn’t write anything incriminating about them.  Guilty conscience pugs?

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Fashion Forward

Sporty Luna!  I include this harness as part of Luna’s wardrobe because it has Velcro closures and I would never take her out in a harness that velcros shut.  So, like the rest of her clothes, its just for show.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Flashback

This week’s flashback: Sock Thief

Because a sock mysteriously went missing this week.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Come

Sol has been adjusting very well to life here with us.  And I think we have been adjusting pretty well to life with 4 pugs.  The hardest adjustment for us has been figuring out ways to communicate with Sol since she is almost completely deaf.  But I think we have settled on a hand signal for “come” that Sol seems to understand pretty well.  We have been patting our shin with our hand and Sol trots on over.  This has come in very handy when we need to signal to Sol to let her know it is time to go out to go potty or that we need her to follow us for whatever reason.

There are a few downsides, however, but these are the negatives of any hand signal.  The first is that Sol needs to be looking at you.  Another is that the hand signals don’t work too well at night or low light situations.  But even with the limitations, the one hand signal that Sol has picked up on so far is working really well.

The next signal we are working on is one for “quiet” or “no bark” because the little lady gets a bit overzealous when we eat dinner.  She just goes crazy whining and begging for food.  We have been very careful not to give her any food while we are at the table, so I think she is just trying to hurry dinner along because she knows that she may or not get something from the plate while we are cleaning up in the kitchen.

On an unrelated note, Sol goes in on Monday to have her teeth cleaned and have the thing from eye removed.  As soon as I get word that everything is finished I will let you know.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Shadow

Above is an unedited picture that I snapped with my phone.  As, I was flipping through my pictures looking for something to blog about I came to this series of pictures and remembered that when I took the picture I thought, “Oh, cool.  They are all lined up in a row and I can blog this and make some silly joke about how I run a tight ship around here and make the pugs lounge in formation.”

As I was looking at the picture, I thought, well I can’t blog about that because Sol isn’t in the photo.  Then after taking another look, I realize that what I thought was Benny’s shadow was really Sol.  I didn’t even see her sitting there.

Here is a cleaned up version of the photo where you can see Sol a lot better.

Well, at least my oversight saved you from another one of my lame jokes - sorta.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Bowled Over

On Sundays, I make the pugs’ food bowls for the week.  With the addition of Sol, I believe we are now up to a total of 84 bowls.  Ridiculous, I know.  Sure, there are about 100 different ways that we could approach this that would require less bowls.  We could put everything in a food processor and make sorta a wet food that we could store and scoop at each meal, I could make the bowls at each mealtime instead of ahead of time, but this method seems to soothe my OCD tendencies the best and is what we have been able to stick with over the years.  So, If you ever come over to my house and open the fridge, just know that you will be staring at two shelves worth of dog food bowls.  Anything that you may want to eat or drink is on the teeny shelf third from the top.