Monday, September 13, 2010

Checkups

Benjamin and Henry

On Friday, the boys had an appointment for their annual checkups. It was actually pretty good timing because the day we made the appointment, Benjamin started shaking his head. It didn't take us long to figure out that something was up with his left ear. So, I added Benjamin's ear to the list of things to discuss with the vet.

Overall, the visit went well. I will give the specifics for each one of the boys later in the week. Each has little things that are common for their age that we will need to keep an eye on, but to summarize we have two 8 1/2 year old pugs that are "looking good". The thing I can't believe is that the boys are 8 1/2 years old.

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Heather

09/13/2010

You definitely are looking good boys!! So handsome! Glad to hear all is well and I hope all Benny needed was some meds for his ear! 8 1/2 years…time goes way too fast. Love you Henry and Ben!

Pat

09/13/2010

It is hard to believe that those handsome pug boys are 8 1/2, and that I have been tuning in every day for over 4 years. I was reading this site before I even had a pug!
Glad to hear all went well with the check ups, and hopefully a little ear wash solution is all Benny needs!!
Here’s to a great week everybody!!

Jennifer

09/13/2010

And FINE looking puggins they are!! The boys are so handsome in their picture. The erect ears and sparkly eyes are the first thing that sucks in a pug-lover’s heart and your boys are good at capturing hearts!

Rachelle

09/13/2010

WOW, 8 1/2!!! They look GREAT!!! Adorable!!

sue

09/13/2010

glad to hear Henry and Benjamins check up went well they do not look eight and a half time does go fast I look at my gang and its hard to believe they are already six Baxter is almost seven he was born christmas day

Heather

09/13/2010

Sue, can you believe this…My Baxter was born the day *after* Christmas!!!!!!! Wow, such a coincidence…

Martha

09/13/2010

What great looking boys they are! They seem more like 8 1/2 months to me! Hope Benny’s ears are okay.

And my son’s dog Norman, was also born on December 26. Normie is the pug o’ my heart, because he’s the first pug I ever loved! Which means he’s the first pug I ever knew : )

Sue VDB

09/13/2010

For two boys who are 8-1/2, you look fantastic. It always astonishes me how years fly by. My Romeo was not quite 3 when I adopted him, and now he is almost 12. Time goes by too quickly.

Benny, get rid of that nasty ear problem pronto.

Sue, Heather and Martha, three birthdays Christmas and the day after…how great is that. We learn from amazing things on OBP.

Heather

09/13/2010

Can’t believe it Martha!

Very cool to think we’ll all be celebrating our babies’ bdays on the same day/day after…

December is such a time of mixed emotion for me…The birthday’s of my Riley and Baxter and also the anniversary of my Riley’s trip to the Rainbow Bridge…I’m not quite sure how to resolve those things in my mind so am really not looking forward to the month, to be honest…

Huckle

09/13/2010

Henry looks a little worried, perhaps about the physical exam? Is Benny telling him to chill?

At last, here is the listing. I see my carefully inserted grammatical markings did not translate from the file to this comment area.

Also, I have a bone to pick with all you Sues…there are too many of you and I’ve lost Jasper somewhere among you. Please straighten me out, I’m too confused.

I’m also open for do-overs should the need arise, additions, deletions, locations, whatever….

Owned By Pugs Roster

Andi, Gainesville, FL Miss Peanut (foster) 8ish, Annabelle 8 1/2, Piper 7, Marley 7ish, Tessa Grace 5ish

Patty B Rocky 8, Adrian 8, Gulliver 3

sue s, [dare I say, Colorado?] Colorado 5 - (Proto 9 weeks & Sol 9 weeks, Beauty )

Grannygoogs, South Africa Lonehill 6 Miz Ziller (rescue) (aka - the delinquent), Boet [aka] FoyBoy - 7, Suster [aka] FizzabellaPop - 7, TinaTuner [aka] Noodle2 [rescue] - 3, Buller [aka] Bullbar [rescue] +/ 4, TaiTai [aka - the other delinquent], [rescue] - 2, Kuhsuko (foul mouthed African Grey)

Heather , Rhode Island Baxter – 12.5, Cole (rescue) 3.5

Corrine, Port Orange, FL Henry - 8.5, Benny - 8.5, Luna - 6

Sue VDB, Kansas City Missy ( 3 teeth) 7-8, Romeo - 12. +2 cats (Jassy - 19, Frankie - 3)

Karen C.J. - 5, Toeby - 5

sue Emma 6, Toby 6, Zeke 6, Abby 6?, Ollie (rescue) 6?

Hellen GiGi, Gwen (Grandpuppy)

Kat Kingsley 11, Paisley, Grizwald

pug mama, Wisconsin Abby - 12.5

Sue Daisey (Boston) - 8

Pat, Nova Scotia Pat, Mr. Skittles

Huckle, Ohio Abby 6, Georgie 4, Gracie 4, and Cooper2 (the Boxer) 4 months

Mary, Iowa Bella

Marcia, Winter Haven, FL - Toby

Sleighbelle, North Texas - Sleighbelle

Darci, Nebraska - Abby

Gina, Nebraska - Pip

Elizabeth, New York - Mini Cooper

Toni - Suzy Q - 3, Dakota - 5, Freeway - 5, Pickle - 11

simply pug - Baby - 6 mos., Lucy - 4 mos.

*******************************************************

Furbabies at the Rainbow Bridge
They will always be in our hearts.

Corrine - Solsey (March 8)

Andi - Miss Granny - 13ish (rescue), Lady - 8 months (rescue), Ellie, 15.5 (rescue)

sue - Gwen - 14.5, Daphne - 10, Pugsly 16.5

Toni - JoJo (May 18)

simply pug - Babe - 17 (May 5)

sue s - Buttons

Heather - Riley

Huckle - Cooper1 - 6

Marcia Martin - Samantha - 13, Milo - 9, CB - 9, Abbey - 14

Pugs hug &
Huckle chuckles
Sleighbelle - Birdy (rescue) - 8

SusanL

09/13/2010

Would you please add Ellie (rescue) 10+? to your list, Huckle? We also live in Colorado. I’m only an occasional commenter but I look at OBP every day. And Ellie’s picture has been posted. Thanks.

Sue VDB

09/13/2010

Huckle, I know you have worked really hard and thank you for that. My chi/min pin Minnie, 10, is upset because you left her out. And if you are going to once again revise your list my very special Bo Peep went to the Rainbow Bridge at 11 in 2001. Sue VDB

Heather

09/13/2010

Huckle, thank you so much for all of your efforts to put our whole OBP Crew together on a roster…So very cool to “see” us all, our babies, and where we are in the world…

Corrine, does this make Huckle the official “Secretary” of the group??

LOVE TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kelly

09/13/2010

Hi friends! The boys sure look gorgeous for a doctor visit. You should have seen me at a few of mine….
Sweeties I wanted to pop in and tell you that I deeply appreciate your prayers & good wishes. I am (WOO HOO) cancer free & at last finished with the last surgery. Luna Dear, I can relate to loosing one’s fur! And our little Solsey’s surgery.

May we be on the roster too? Lola (6 yrs 7-11), Grace (5 yrs 11-4) & Edward (3 1-10). They were wonderful troopers during this last year, staying by my side for all the chemos and surgerys. They made it a habit to stretch the length of me. It always made me better. And btw, Lola found the cancer. If I’d only known what she was trying to tell me!

I used to be in Lubbock, but we moved to Denver! Any of CO folks want to visit a lonely new person?

Corrine, thanks so much for the pictures that always cheered.
XXOO
Kelly

Patty B.

09/13/2010

Boys, you look Maaavelous!

Sue VDB

09/13/2010

Kelly, congratulations dear. That is FANTASTIC news. Aren’t our puggies smart? I’m sure you hold a special place in your heart for your Lola, who so much wanted you to know you needed help.

I’m sure you will find new friends quickly in your new home. And you have friends here on OBP.

sue

09/13/2010

Huckle Jasper is mine he is one of my boxers I only mentioned my pugs I also have two boxers Baxter and of course Jasper and then there is my peke Miss Annabelle which they are all six I didnt know if we were suppose to put our other fur babies and if it makes it easier you can put me as Sue W THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU HAVE PUT INTO THIS LIST

Pat

09/13/2010

Wow great job Huckle!! I don’t know if I would have gotten all of that !! Awesome list!!

Hellen Norton

09/13/2010

Glad to hear the boys are doing good. They are really great looking…no where the 8-year mark!!!

GiGi is a rescue that I got from Pug Hearts of Houston two years ago this next Nov. 26. She is between 10-15 years old my vet says.

Huckle

09/13/2010

Not funny, Heather. Secretary, humpf. Out in the real world (but what could be more real than Pugs) I was a secretary - and hated every minute of it. But I appreciate your comments.

I would like to thank all of you for your positive remarks. You guys are awesome. My fear is that I gave someone the wrong Pug, or left them out all together. Just let me know. I thought I had finalized the list this a.m., went to get the file and it wouldn’t let me…talk about a heart attack. I’m not sure I could type the whole thing from scratch.

Kelly, of course. I’m glad to have more of us to put down. I’m also ecstatic that your cancer has gone bye-bye. How wonderful that is. Wish I was closer so that we could have play dates. It must be hard to be in a new environment endure the stress of cancer plus have no one close by to confide in. Continued best wishes and positive thinking.

Sleighbelle - I’ll reposition you and hadn’t realized my signature got in front of it.

Please apologize to Minnie for me.

I’ll revise in a couple days, adding furbabies
, Rainbow Bridgers and perhaps with more locations, too?

Corrine - thank you for making OBP possible in the first place and allowing us all to support one another. When you started this blog, did you have any idea there are so many of us hungry for Pug talk?

Sue - I just knew Jasper belonged with a Sue, I just didn’t know which one. I’m glad you cleared that up.

Pugs hug and
Huckle chuckles

Patty V

09/13/2010

Huckle could you please add me and Olive to your list? She turned 3 in June and is my first pug. I love her dearly. Sorry to be late to the game, I’ve missed a lot of posts recently.

Kelly - excellent news!

Sleighbelle

09/13/2010

Huckle, Sleighbelle will be 14 on October 26 (which is my niece’s birthday also). My niece hates that she has to “share” your birthday with my baby!!

Andi

09/13/2010

Henry and Benny, you boys love great! Glad the check ups went well and Benny I hope you just have a minor ear infection that meds will clear up quickly.

Huckle, that you for doing the list

Kelly, congrats on being cancer free; wonderful news!

Toni

09/13/2010

It is always great to get good checkups. They get older so fast, much too fast.

Huckle, Can I add my other two pugs that crossed the rainbow bridge, besides JoJo? My firth pug, My Soul Mate, Max crossed June 17, 2003 and Bubba who passed on August 20, 2007. Both hold their places in my heart and always will.

Heather

09/13/2010

Huckle, I meant Secretary in a GOOD way, of course!!! Meaning that you keep track of all of us better than we ever could! I wouldn’t mind being a Secretary to Pugs…they’d be the best bosses ever!!!

THANK YOU again…lots of pug love!

sue

09/14/2010

Kelly I am so happy for you being cancer free I know moving to a new place can be lonely but we at OBP are all here for you when ever you want to chat

Huckle, I live in Tampa Florida if you are adding it to our list you crack me up with the stories about Cooper2 he sounds so much like my two boxers when they were puppies

Huckle

09/14/2010

Heather - I was just pulling your chain not freaking out at your comment. It struck me as amusing but was a bone of contention with my mother and me…she had that ‘as long as you can type…’ mentality and understandable. When her husband died when I was two, she had no training, no job, she to sell her house and we moved to Ohio from Illinois to live with my grandparents. Hence, she pushed me into a business college education and the ability to type 120 words a minute (now, I’m lucky to type two wpm!)

BTW - This was fun to do, interesting when the Pugs and locations were added in. I do wish there was a way to get everybody who reads the blog to sign in and I’ll keep adding as long as there is an interest.

Pug hugs &
Huckle chuckles

Minx

09/14/2010

I’m a new addition to the reader family. I’ve been here for a few months, now. My ability to check in has been hampered by my loss of internet, but I still make a beeline for OBP every chance I get. My Taj (3 1/2) and I love to look at the gorgeous pictures of our collective babies, and see what the brood is up to. When I feel like giving up, I always seem to find inspiration with the OBP family. Someone inevitably is going through something that relates to my woes, and I find the spring in my step once more. You guys are my guardian angels.

Becca & Taj

sue s

09/14/2010

Hi Kelly and welcome to beautiful Colorado!! SO glad you are cancer free!!! I live in Walden which is 3 hours from Denver. I make trips to the front range and would be happy to meet with you when I am over that way. You will find a lot of friendly folks here in Colorado-so you won’t be lonely long! Pug-hugs coming your way from the Colorado 5

Grannygoogs

09/17/2010

Sorry - also getting on in years - but no excuse for not thinking “BLOG” more often!! Miss out on a whole lots of chatter!! Please everyone remind me now and then!!

For Arthritis - try the oil of the Green lipped New Zealand Mussel or another one called Emu Oil (this I believe is new but looked it up on the web as its natural should be OK for our pugs. But have had good experience with the Green New Zealand oil capsules with my older dogs!!

Huckle- you really are doing one fantastic job of putting all the pugs together - can I add three of my babies who all crossed the Rainbow Bridge too soon!!
Fudge Rescue 1996 crossed the Rainbow Bridge in 2003
Fenella Rescue born in 2003 crossed the Rainbow Bridge in 2004
Phoebe [aka Noodle] born in 2003 crossed the Rainbow Bridge in 2006

We have a lovely ‘Pet Cemetery’ on the farm, under a wild Sage Wood Tree, all the graves have Soap Stone markers with their names and dates of their passing carved into them. It’s especially beautiful at the moment as the Sage Wood {wild buddelea] is in blossom at the moment and the perfume is intoxicatingly beautiful! also all the miniature daffodils have begun to flower.

OBP - it’s wonderful to see lots of new faces on the site - as I have said before I don’t know what I would do without you all
Pug hugs
Grannygoogs and the ‘Lonehill 6’,

Huckle

09/17/2010

GrannyG - Just read your entry today and will add the Rainbow Bridgers - several of them were awfully young. That must have been hard but in a different way than long time Pugs. We honor their lives by remembering them, don’t we.

I’m finalizing my finalize of the roll call. Any newbies (or oldbies) who want added this time, chime in. I hate to leave anyone - or any Pugs - out. Just let me know. More locations would be good, too.

Minx - I have a question…is your name to go by Minx, or Becca? I wasn’t clear on that and wanted to mark it correctly.

Pug hugs &
Huckle chuckles

Minx

09/18/2010

Huckle: we’ll go with Minx. It’s usually my handle for everything.

Pug snorts from Oregon

Minx & Taj

Grannygoogs

09/21/2010

Hi Huckle,
We live in the Southern Hemisphere – so we have very hot Christmas’s, Spring is “supposed” to start in September, which coincides with your ‘fall’, but with ‘global warming’ – Spring seems to arrive later and later each year and Autumn begins at the end of March.
We live in what we refer to as ‘the land of the Silver Mists’, a little village called Haenertsburg on the edge of the escarpment and ‘our mountain’ is called the Iron Crown and forms part of the Wolkberg [Cloud mountain] Massive, which forms the southern reach of the Transvaal Drakensburg [Dragons Mountains] in the Limpopo Province.
Most people [who are not from our area] think that we are very odd, full of idiosyncrasies, very eccentric and extremely strange – which we are!! AND proud of this reputation – In fact if you aren’t strange it’s very difficult to understand us and that’s when we explain that our craziness comes from living permanently with ‘our heads in the mist’!! But apart from all our idiosyncrasies, in general, most of us are outgoing; generous; and above all very,very caring of our community in large.
I was born in Rhodesia [now “poor” Zimbabwe] but moved here to South Africa when I was 12. My husband’s family came Haenertsburg in 1902; his great-grandfather was the first official Forester in the ‘Woodbush’ – which still forms the largest natural indigenous forest & rain forest in South Africa.
You can check out where we live on www.magoebaskloof.com - there are quite a few sites attached – look at Cheerio [the ‘top’ dam there is on our property, but the whole valley belongs to my husbands family, and his cousin has the Cheese farm – Wegraakbos
Will finish off as I don’t want to bore anyone
Pug hugs and kisses from
Grannygoogs and the ‘Lonehill 6’

Grannygoogs

09/21/2010

Huckle - regarding my babies that crossed the Rainbow Bridge being so young, Phoebe and Fenella were both rescued at 4 weeks, they were found by the SPCA in an abandoned house with a brother and their parents. SPCA called me and asked me if I could help, I arranged to take the three puppies and made another plan for friends to adopt the parents. I unfortunately have to shock you - THESE PUGS WERE BEING BRED FOR FOOD!!!!!!!!!! by some Chinese people, who did a ‘Moonlit Flit’ [absconded without paying the rent]
The little boy died before I could get down to Tzaneen [29 miles down a rather perilous mountain pass] so I took Phoebe and Fenella home - Fenella was never a ‘well child’ - she got pneumonia several times, ear infections, billiary (parva) 6 times and just didn’t survive the 7th time.
Phoebe - Noodle was that “one special child’ that we always have - we never admit to favourites but in our heart of hearts - there is always the ‘one you love the best’. We allowed her to have one litter and then we had her sterilised as I notices she seem to have stress fits,they got worse and I suspected a form of epilepsy - our Vet checked her out and prescribed tablets to keep this canine form of epilepsy under control. One of her many idiosyncrasies, apart from being able to mow the lawn with her frisbee, was chasing Vervet Monkey’s and one Friday night when I got home from work, she didn’t come to meet me so we started searching, I wore out 6 set of torch batteries that night while walking the farm and calling for her. [unfortunately we had friends staying with us from Johannesburg - so we were not very good hosts] My maid, who must have heard me calling, arrived at first light and joined in the search and sadly my husband found her near the dam, the autopsy report showed that she’d had a fit and after checking with Evalina - my maid, she said that she was chasing monkey’s when she left work that evening. I never knew it was possible to have so many tears!! A strange Pug phenomena, is that none of the pugs would go near her grave until I brought Tina-Turner home, we went straight to her grave and all the pugs sat on her stone and it was almost like them telling Tina-Tina all about Phoebe. Tina-Turner is so like Phoebe that is why her nick-name is Noodle 2
damn…got myself crying again!!!! memories!!
Pug hugs
Grannygoogs

Sue VDB

09/21/2010

Granngoogs, what beautiful country you live in. It is absolutely breathtaking. I’ve read some of it, but have saved your blog to read the rest.

What a sad story about Noodle, and I know what you mean about being a very special baby. I have loved all of mine deeply, but no one can compare to my
Bo Peep.

Thanks for letting us peek into your life.

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