Monday, February 11, 2008
Every morning, shortly after the dew dries on the grass, Benny goes out in the yard and sits on the bench that he is convinced we bought just for him. He usually just sits there squinty eyed listening to the birds chirping, but on this morning there was a distinct smell of bacon in the air. He just sat there, soaking up the rays, smelling and smelling the air. Sunshine and bacon! He was in heaven!
Friday, February 8, 2008
Yesterday marked one week since Henry visited the ophthalmologist. We have been sticking to his medicine schedule and his bump looks a lot better, but it is not completely gone. We have one more week before he goes back for a follow-up and I hope by then that the bump is gone!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Sorry for the lack of a picture to accompany this entry. It has been one of those mornings already. But, here are some old pictures of Benjamin, Henry & Luna for you on Flickr. I am going to try to be more diligent in adding photos to Flickr.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
You would never know that we have a doggie door. Santa brought one and while Ben, Henry & Cupid have all learned to use the door they all have their quirks. Henry’s quirk is that he will not walk through the door with anything in his mouth. His favorite thing to do is to take a bone out by the pool and chew it while sunning himself. So needless to say, whenever he has a bone to take outside he comes and sits by the door and patiently waits for me to open it for him.
I’m not exactly sure what he thinks. I think he thinks he is too wide to go through the doggie door when he has something in his mouth. Before we got the doggie door he was like that with the regular doors. If he has something his mouth you have to open the door real wide for him to come in. You would think we gave him bones that were 5 feet long!
Luna on the other hand won’t use the doggie door without some assistance. She is scared to push the flap open. Which makes no sense at all. She will run full steam into the sliding glass door, but she it too timid to walk through a space that she knows is for sure open. Go figure. We are working with her on it though.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
We went out to dinner the other night and I wanted to save some room for dessert so I brought home a piece of my steak for the pugs. The pugs rarely ever get any type of red meat so they got very excited when the smelled the steak.
Luna had a hard time “leaving it” while I took the picture. She was ready to pounce and claim that steak all for herself!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
PetSource.org Votes: Remember when I asked all of you to vote for Benjamin & Henry in the PetSource Monthly photo contest? Well, thanks to your votes, the boys won and Compassionate Pug Rescue earned a much deserved $1,000 (they received their check in December). Well, pug lover Nilda is hoping to earn some money for Ohio Pug Rescue by doing the same thing. If you can, stop by and vote for her. Here is the picture she submitted.
Get your feed on: I have finally got around to creating a feed for the site. So if you use a feed reader to stay on top of things, here is where you can grab our feed.
Free shipping on OBP calendars:If you still would like to get an Owned by Pugs 2008 calendar we are offering free First Class Mail shipping.
Super Tuesday: Today is Super Tuesday and all the major media outlets are all buzzing with political news. I managed to stumble across a few bits of Super Tuesday stories that are dog related.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
This was the sight during the Packers and Giants game a few Sunday’s ago. Henry was most definitely chillin’ and he had the phone and remote with him so that he wouldn’t even have to bother to get up if the phone were to ring or if he wanted to do a little channel surfing.
Looking forward to your captions in the comments!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Like most pugs Benny is very alert and listens closely when you speak. You might not even be speaking directly to him, but he always has an ear out listening to the words you are speaking. This is all well and good, except for the fact that there are a few words that you can not say to Benny unless you really mean it. Here are a few.
Use this word in any sentence and Benjamin will not calm down until you feed him. I think this all started because when him and Henry were pups I always asked them “Are you hungry?” before I fed them. Why? I don’t know. The answer was always a resounding YES. I must have asked them too many times because now you can’t even use the word hungry in any sentence without Benny thinking it is time to eat.
Unless you are feeding Benny all of these words are off limit. Say any of them and he automatically assumes it is feeding time. It has gotten so bad that we had to start referring to things like our dinner as “D”. We’ll say things like, “So what’s for D?”
Benjamin assumes that any sentence that has the word wanna is a question and his answer is always YES. This probably came from me asking them, “Do you wanna go for a walk?” or “Do you wanna go for a car ride?” So if Benny hears the word “wanna” he automatically assumes he is going for a walk or a ride in the car. Even if you ask him something like “Wanna get a bath?” He still assumes he is going to do something fun. He’s definitely an optimist.
What are your pug’s favorite words?
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