Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Caption This #140

Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Driving Miss Solsey

On Saturday morning we took the pugs for a walk at a nearby park. Sol walked a bit & then rode in her pouch for a bit and then finished up by walking some more. When we got back to the car, I sat her on the seat while I buckled in Benjamin, Henry & Luna and she made herself quite comfortable.

We also started a new set of coughing meds on Friday night. She was doing well for a while and then all of a sudden her coughing was back. Not as bad as it was around the holidays, but it was still constant. So, last week we were trying different dosages and we also went back on the antibiotics in hopes that things would get better. Nothing really seemed to be having an impact so we stepped up to a "harder" cough suppressant. This is pretty much our last option so I am hoping that it works. In some ways I think it is working better, but in others I don't think it is working at all. I am going to have to give it a few days to know for sure if it is working any better. I am just keeping my fingers crossed hoping that this new medicine does the trick, otherwise there really isn't anything else we can try.

Meanwhile, we have been taking Solsey on a lot of walks in her pouch and taking her out for as many car rides as we can. She is at her happiest when doing these things. Seeing Solsey enjoy life brings a huge smile to my face.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Really?

Really, Henry? You find that comfortable?

I didn't know he was that flexible. I guess you miss a few walks because of the cold weather and the when you finally get back in the swing of things you need to stretch out the legs. I'm sure that's it

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Flashback

This week's flashback: Why Must You Eat Everything?

Benjamin jogged my memory about this post when he grabbed a mouthful of mulch before we headed out on our walk yesterday. Old habits die hard.

Friday, January 15, 2010

8 Freezing Nights

We had 8 consecutive nights with temperatures below freezing and the pugs were not pleased. Heck, even I wasn't pleased.

Now, I know to many of you 8 straight nights of temps in the high twenties would seem like a heat wave, but you have to be easy on us Floridians as we are delicate people when it comes to cold temps.

My favorite piece I read about our cold snap was from USA Today. To paraphrase, the paper surmised that you can throw a hurricane at Florida and we can handle it, but bring on the cold weather and it is chaos. A state of emergency had to be declared to save the citrus crops, stores couldn't keep gloves, scarves & space heaters in stock and iguanas started to fall out of their trees. And that article didn't even account for the effect the cold temps were having on the pugs

The pugs mainly spent their days & nights sleeping. They didn't even wake up for breakfast until 6:45 AM on a few days because they didn't want to have to go out and go potty in the freezing cold.

Fortunately, it looks like our normal winter weather is returning. We will be hitting our normal 70 degree mark during the days today and tomorrow. Plus, the temps will remain in the 50's and 60's during the evenings. Now that is more like it.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Luna

Luna, just hanging out in the bin waiting on that warmer weather that is supposed to be here soon.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

After Dinner Flossie

Each one of the fawn pugs received a flossie in their stocking at Christmas courtesy of their sister Solsey. The pet store where we were buying the dog food that Solsey was eating at the time had a promotion during the month of November & December that if you bought three cans you would get a Flossie for free. So, Solsey happily pledged her commitment to nine cans and earned three free flossies. One for each one of her siblings.

Benjamin, Henry & Luna were very thankful for Solsey's thoughtful gift and happily chewed their treat on Christmas day. And each day after Christmas, Henry went off to chew his flossie after dinner without fail. It was like his dessert. He enjoyed his flossie so much that we got another round when they finished up their gift from Sol.