Thursday, July 9, 2015

A Year of Missing Looney

My how time both flies and stands still. It will be a year this weekend since we lost our beloved Looney Toons.

There is so much we miss about this kid! She had such a thirst for life and she loved her people! She was both a little bad ass AND a precious and sweet little lady! Not many people can wear both of those hats too well! But she did it marvelously!

There are so many things we miss about Luna, but I am going to share a few of her mischievous behaviors first (things that we would so happily take back).

Its hard to say we miss her jumping on the dinner table and stealing our food if we happened to step away for a moment. And I can tell you with 100% certainty that we don't miss her rolling in the grass rubbing super stinky bird poop all over herself. Having to drive a dog home reeking of recycled fish is quite an experience. And it only gets worse when 3 baths barely begin to get rid of the stench. And who can forget Luna's late night snacks. She would wake up at 3AM, eye you down and bark at you until you got up and fed her.

Despite all her antics, this girl was filled with love. She had a pure heart of gold. She came to us "broken" but it seemed that in no time flat, she discovered her inner diva, embraced it and never let it go.

She had scars, a furless chest and belly, a big bulgy eye and a hole in one ear, but she didn't care. She was a princess and no one was going to tell her any different. You could see it in the way she walked. It was with attitude! Confidence, really. She was Luna the powerful.

But when it came down to the nuts and bolts she was just a squishy, melty ball of love. She loved and she loved hard and rough. She would lick your face so fast and furiously that sometimes her little snaggle tooth would get stuck in your nostril! It was like she was literally trying to lick your face off. She loved you so much she could not get enough of you. And each night, she had to claim you. She waited until you were set up on the sofa and she'd pop right up on your lap and claim the leg of the person with the longest femur. She plopped herself down on that thigh and would not budge the rest of the night. You were hers and that is all there was to it! Don't have to go potty or she'd be impatient with you seeming to ask, "why didn't you take care of that before?!"

It's been a year of missing Luna and her antics, but at the same time it seems like there has barely been enough time to accept this new reality. Losing Benjamin then almost immediately losing Luna seemed liked it would be impossible to ever recuperate. And now after a year, it is starting to seem possible, but we are still pretty much at grief's brim. Plugging away like Henry. Slow and steady we are coping. Gradually we are working our way to some peace. And at a snail's pace we are inching towards the normalcy of being owned by just one pug.

#MissingLooney #LunaWasOneFeistyPug #RIPLunaGirl

Here are some of our favorite Luna photos:

This cute little look is pretty much how Luna got away with all of her mischief.

We got Luna a cake to celebrate her first gotcha day with us. She could hardly wait to dive in and eat her cake.

Luna was quite possibly the messiest eater ever. She would get so excited that she would end up flicking her food everywhere and getting it all over her face. This drove Benny crazy as he wanted to clean up all of Luna's food off the floor. Henry has become a much more messy eater since going blind, but he is still no where close to being as messy as Luna.

Luna was a petite girl, but she was lightening fast. When she wanted to, she would kick it into high gear and leave the boys in her dust.

Luna and Sol are two of the feistiest alpha females you will ever meet. You would think that that would put them at odds, but that couldn't be further than the truth. They were fast friends. Sol had a great calming affect on Luna. There was a very special bond between Luna and Sol.

No one rocked an outfit quite like Luna!

She could also rock a hat! The only one of the pugs that didn't seem to mind having something on her head.

Never, ever fluff Luna's divot out of this pillow. She would be fuming for days! Flipping, flopping and scratching at her pillow to get it back to the way she liked it.

Other beds she was not so particular about. Upside down, right side up, she didn't care.

And from time to time she would remind Benny that there was also a pillow Queen in the house.

She might have also been ahead of her time on the selfies