Thursday, October 25, 2007

2008 Calendars are Now Available

Hot off the presses!  The 2008 Owned by Pugs Calendars just arrived at our doorstep today!  You can view the calendar pages here and the calendars are for sale at H. Doodle.

Don’t forget, a portion of the proceeds from each calendar sale go to Compassionate Pug Rescue.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

You Don’t Want Her as Your Secret Santa

Cupid, being the thoughtful and generous cat that she is, likes to give me gifts.  It is very sweet of her, but she has got to be one of the worst gift givers ever!

Last Friday, the cat was out enjoying the afternoon in the screened in area around our pool.  She meowed at my office door to come in, like she does a thousand times a day, so I got up and let her in.  She eagerly steps over the threshold, meows to get my attention and when I look down at her, she drops a gecko at my feet.  I look at the gecko, then at the cat, who is so very happy with herself, and then the gecko makes a break for it and runs behind my computer rack in my office.

The cat let’s out a meow that lets me know that she is disappointed in how ungrateful I am and then turns her attention to the computer rack.

She camps out in front of the rack for about 5 minutes when she decides that she needs to take a nap.  The weekend passes and there is no sign of the gecko anywhere.  Not knowing how much fun the cat had with him before she brought him into the house, I assumed that I would find a dead gecko under my computers.  On Monday,  I was in my office working and I moved a little desktop scale that I have next to my computer monitor to make some room for something else.  And what pops out from underneath the scale?  A gecko!  Needless to say it startled me a bit.  The cat, who is sleeping on my desk, perks up and looks at the gecko and then looks at me to say, “There’s your present!”

So I spent the next 5 minutes trying to scoop up the gecko with some papers and get him outside while the cat lounged on the desk and watched.  I finally caught the little guy and put him in some flowers in the yard.  When I came back inside, there was the cat all snuggled up on my desk purring.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

At the Dog Park

This weekend we went to the dog park so Benjamin, Henry & Luna could get out and run around a bit.  The great thing about the dog park that we went to is that there are plenty of trees in the park, which means plenty of shade.  This was great for the boys and Luna because it is still pretty hot here in FL.

There were a handful of small dogs there when we arrived so there were plenty of playmates for Benjamin, Henry & Luna.  The boys, of course, took to a Pit Bull puppy that was rescued from the pound.  This made me very nervous at first, but she was a real sweetheart and they made great playmates (she could handle the boys tag teaming her).

Luna found a couple of little dogs her size and chased them around for a while.  I snapped a lot of pictures of her playing, but they all came out blurry!  I guess I will have plenty of pics for the bloopers.

After playing for a bit, Henry made himself comfortable on a bench at the park and kept watch over everything that was going on.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Caption This #30

Here we have Henry with last year’s scarecrow, a Baltimore Orioles fan (can you tell that we have not celebrated many sport victories in this house).  Henry was borderline obsessed with this scarecrow.  He treated the scarecrow like a real person and was always sitting at his feet and jumping up on his lap.  He was pretty much begging for the scarecrow to pet him.  As you can see in the picture, Henry and the scarecrow are deep into a conversation.

Looking forward to your captions in the comments!

Oh, and don’t forget to enter your picture into our Halloween Costume Contest!

Monday, October 22, 2007

The Voting Continues

Hello everyone!  Thanks to all that have voted for Benjamin & Henry in the PetSource Halloween Costume Contest.  The boys are currently in the lead, but there is a new “Sheriff” that is catching up quick!  If you have the time please drop by and vote for the boys.  You can vote up to one time a day and I believe the contest runs until Halloween.  After you register the first time, voting is a lot easier.  The quickest way to find the boys is to sort by Most Voted.  Hopefully, we will still be at the top The boys are dressed as Batman & Robin

If we win, $1,000 goes to Compassionate Pug Rescue.  We would love to be able to win the money for them. 

Thanks so much!

Monday, October 22, 2007

Going Gray

I have a question for all you pug lovers out there.  When did your pugs start to go gray?  Little Luna is about 4 years old, but as you can see her face is already very gray.  The boys, on the other hand, are 5 years old and have a lot less gray.  However, I did notice little bits of gray creeping in on their chins when they were about 2 years old.  Right now, the are primarily gray on their chins with a little bit of gray on their face.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Vote for Benjamin & Henry for a Good Cause

I just entered a picture of Benjamin & Henry into PetSource.com’s Halloween Costume Contest.  The entry that gets the most votes gets a $1,000 donation to the animal charity of their choice.  We would love to win and send $1,000 to Compassionate Pug Rescue.  They nursed little Luna back to health and they have have recently helped so many pugs that were in need of costly medical attention.  So if you can, please drop by and cast a vote for Benjamin & Henry in Luna’s honor!  You can vote one time per day.

For some reason, I can’t link directly to our entry. But right now it is on the front page if you sort by newest.