Tuesday, March 17, 2009
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Caption This programming to wish you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. These festive bandanas were part of a set given as a Christmas gift to the pugs from their Great Aunt. At the time, we were a three pug household. But it worked out perfectly because I took this picture the same day that I took Luna’s “Does this shirt make me look fat?” picture. Luna would have loved to have been in this photo but she had exceeded the max amount of work time allowed by law for a pug. So she was off getting treats while Sol, Benjamin & Henry had to work. 
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sol’s follow-up appointment this morning went very well! Everything is healing very nicely in her mouth and the pathology report on the part removed from her jaw showed clean margins! I am so very happy about that! I have been keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that we would get clean margins.
Thank you everyone for the well wishes!
Sorry for the delayed update. It has been a long, hectic day, but the best kind of long, hectic day you can have
Monday, March 16, 2009
Today, we take Sol in for her post surgery checkup. From our perspective, Sol’s mouth seems to be healing quite nicely, but we will know for sure after today’s visit.
We got the cytology results for Sol’s mammary tumors and it is good news. The lumps are inflamed tissue. We will need to make an appointment with our regular vet to see if he recommends having them removed. Right now they are very small, but if they grow in size odds are likely we will need to have them removed. The trickier part is figuring out if Sol is spayed or not. We haven’t been able to find a scar on her hairy little belly and we have learned that an ultrasound might not be able to give us a definitive answer either. I’m not really keen on waiting to see if she goes into heat to find out if she is spayed.
I’m not so concerned about not seeing a scar on her belly, because Luna’s scar is barely visible and she has absolutely no fur on her belly. When we adopted Luna, her scar was very pronounced, but it has since faded away to almost nothing. However, if Sol was spayed early in life the odds of her developing inflamed mammary tissue are very slim. So, hopefully, Sol has been spayed, but just not as early as they would like. Her being spayed, even if it was later in life, would be better than her never being spayed. We shall see.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Luna is wearing one of the shirts that G-Ma recently sent to her. The shirts are a bit snug, but you can’t fault G-Ma for that. She specifically asked me what size to get and I told her small, but I think we should have went with Medium. So, Looney, it just that the shirt is a little snug, that’s all.
If you look really closely you will see the boys peering out the front door.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
This week’s flashback: Wonderful Weekend
The weather has been absolutely fantastic this week! I dipped my toe in the pool a few days ago and I think we are still a few more weeks away from a swim, but I can’t wait to get back to summer days spent swimming with the pugs. I wonder if Sol is going to like the pool?
Friday, March 13, 2009
There is no denying that Luna is a pint sized pug. As small as she is though you can never count her out and you can’t really share a bed with her. Somehow, someway, tiny little Luna is able to kick me out of a King size bed almost every night. I have analyzed her methods and I think I have figured out how she does it.
I am a very sound sleeper and one of the lucky ones that as soon as my head hits the pillow I am out. Every night is pretty much the same thing. I start out in my spot, laying on my stomach and Luna crawls under the covers and lays parallel to my body pushed up against my hip and stomach. I quickly fall asleep and then at some point I hear my subconscious telling me that I am squishing the dog. So, without stirring, I scooch a little bit closer to the edge of the bed so that I can rest without laying on Luna. Luna then moves closer to me so that she can be pressed up against my hip and stomach. At that point we are in the exact same position as when the night started EXCEPT I am a few inches closer to the edge of the bed. Repeat this process over the course of several hours and the next thing I know it is 3AM and I suddenly can’t fit both of my legs on the bed.
So how exactly does 15 pound Luna keep getting wedged underneath of me. When her tail uncurls does it also function as a jack? If my subconscious mind didn’t tell me to move over, what exactly would she do?
The worst part is that as Luna pushes me right off the bed, the other pugs claim the free bed space that she has created. So to get back in bed, I have to move at least two pugs if not more in my delirious state. And if one of those pugs is Benny and it happens to be around the 4AM hour I cringe. Because if Benny wakes up at that time of the morning he is going to be hungry and he will keep everyone up running in and out of the doggie door doing his little “I’m hungry, feed me, oh yay I’m going to eat” happy dance. Its mornings like that that sleeping on one of the dog beds doesn’t seem so bad.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Look at Benny’s dirty face! When Benny chews, he has marathon chewing sessions. I don’t know exactly what he does during that time, but his face gets absolutely filthy!
The worst part is that as soon as he catches a whiff of the smelly malacetic wipes that we use to clean his face his belly hits the floor and he hides his face. Too bad Benny doesn’t understand cause and effect. If you chew your bone for 3 hours straight, then your face will get dirty. When your face is dirty I will need to use a smelly wipe to clean it. Makes perfect sense!
Although, chewing isn’t the only culprit in Benny’s dirty wrinkles. Out of the four pugs, his wrinkles get the dirtiest and they get dirty very quickly. I think it is because he is so driven by his nose and he always has his face stuck in the grass or in the sofa cushions or wherever he might be smelling. Plus, his wrinkles are deep. We could easily clean his wrinkles everyday, but since he isn’t really fond of the cleaning and I’m not really too keen on it either, I clean them every couple of days or when his face starts to look like it does in the picture.
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