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Monday, October 12, 2015

Ask OBP #12

Cupid

Hi Christie! Thank you for carrying the weight of Ask OBP! We love your questions! And you have some doozies! It sounds like our pugs have little in common with your pugs. This is so odd to us, though! We have found that pugs have so much in common. But I have not heard about a pug licking hair! Actually, our pugs would lick our faces UNTIL they got to our hair and then they would start again from the chin up. Your pugs licking your hair seems so funny to us! Are there any other hair-licking pugs out there?

So, we will tangent from the pugs licking hair to Cupid chewing our hair and biting our scalp. This is one of Cupid's favorite things in life. She prefers to do this right after a shower with wet hair and then the bonus of fresh dried hair topped with hair spray or some other product. Oh she LOVES that! We are convinced it is that behavior that got her kicked out of her original home. She "wouldn't stay out of the baby's crib" was the reason listed for giving her up. I can just see her hoping in the crib with a sweet newborn post tear free shampoo bath! Oh, she must have gone to town on that kid! First, she sniffs then gently paws the head. That is followed by a harsher paw where she spoons the hair into her mouth. The final blow is when she buries her face in the hair and tries to get a mouthful which often includes scalp! Yikes! And in her younger days she may have given an extra back claw to the head finale. After her hair show was over, she would literally roll over as if in an over pleasured indulged coma. So, nope on the pugs, but a big yes on the cat!


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Terry

10/12/2015

Do/did your pugs play with toys past puppyhood? My pug loved his toys until he was about 1 1/2, then if it wasn’t food, it wasn’t going in his mouth and wanted nothing to do with it.

sue wooding

10/13/2015

I never heard of pugs licking hair before thats a new one

Minnie, Mack and Mario

10/13/2015

Oh, Cupid!  Free massages with a little violence in the end…when our children were small we did have a kitty that like to chew hair, but he never was violent.  Interesting.  One of our puggles (pug/beagle mix) is a licker.  He is a rescue we adopted when he was 6.  He doesn’t lick people but will lick just about anything else, sometimes constantly. We wish we knew why. And either he was trained to not lick people or he just doesn’t like their taste.  I’ve noticed when he has an upset tummy, he will pull fibers out of carpets, either throw rugs or wall to wall.  Of course, he did get hold of a small section of wall to wall in our new house but it’s not noticeable…we have to really watch when this happens, I’m afraid what too many long fibers would do to his insides. Minnie, our other puggle, loves to lick people legs especially when just moisturized or when sweaty! She licks faces, too, but most of the time she can’t reach them!
We always enjoy your Q&A sessions.  We will try to come up with some good questions!

Martha

10/13/2015

Bennie has never licked hair even once, but I believe he’s probably licked every other thing he’s ever come in contact with!

And Cupid!  Yes, I’m sure you’ve figured out the problem in her previous home!

Sue (Pen & Lucy's Mommy)

10/13/2015

That picture of Cupid is hysterical! I have one hair licking pug, but thankfully (maybe not) it’s his own and it’s what fell out on the floor! If we go too long between vacuuming our hardwood floors Pen will walk along the edge of the room licking up all the pug hair that has drifted there. You’d think I would be grateful for the floor cleaning but no. He ends up with hair caught in his throat and starts hacking and coughing like he’s going to hurl. His tongue leaves “pug spit” on the floor, which is not easy to mop up, I swear that stuff is made of glue! And finally we have the “dingleberry” problem when all that hair moves through to the other end of the system. YUK!

Mary M

10/13/2015

Such a stunning picture of Miss Cupid!  Neither of my kitties lick hair, but my Bella has a troublesome habit of licking and chewing on plastic bags, which I know is not good for her.

Christie Sachde

10/13/2015

Oh no…maybe my puggies are abbynormal then;) It is only Olive that licks…and oddly enough my husband will often say that she thinks she’s a cat!!!

Christie Sachde

10/13/2015

So, to continue carrying the weight of OBP a question on hygiene…how often does Henry get a bath and does he like of hate it…what about Benny, Luna and Sol???

We…meaning my husband…gives our kidz a bath about once a month. Actually, not a bath really…a shower as my laundry room is equipped with a fully functioning “pug shower”! Yup-that’s right…we rejigged the laundry room…moved the washer/dryer and had a small shower built for the pugs! Looks just like a normal shower only smaller…all tiled…glass door…hand held shower head!!!

And they hate getting a bath…they even seem to know the word “bath” and when they hear it they run like a bat outta hell!

Sue VDB and Annie Fannie

10/13/2015

Oh Cupid, what a stinker you are.  I know cats like to play with a lot of things, but never heard of hair and scalp being one of them.That is a beautiful picture of you Cupid. 

Vickie (my “daughter”) has three pugs:  Zippo, Zeus and Quita.  She has found several spots where Zeus has licked Zippo bald.  So Christie, you are not the Lone Ranger. I personally have not had a licker pug other than the kissing kind.

Martha

10/13/2015

I love that you’ve created a pug shower!

Brenda Cooper

10/13/2015

Genevieve loves to lick my husbands bald head every night.  Usually after his shower but she loves his sweatty head too. She will lick my legs sometimes after my shower. She has always been a picky eater, too. A total carnivore.

Terry

10/13/2015

Do/did your pugs lie in positions that seem like they have to be uncomfortable, but they must be comfortable because the dog chose to lie like that?

Chris and 3 pugs

10/19/2015

My pug Oscar also licks my hair and then tries to eat it. My other 2 pugs don’t do that. Unfortunately, just this am , I confirmed 8 yr old Oscar also is wetting the bed now at night.

Laura Mason

10/24/2015

My old girl (Vada) and my young girl (Nynaeve aka Goosey) both try to eat/lick my hair every day!

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