Wednesday, January 2, 2008
After the holidays, the pugs seemed to be filthier than ever. Benny’s face was filled with dirty wrinkles (and his lip was still taking some time to heal.) Henry’s feet smelled of old cheese doodles. And Luna, well, she is always a mess. (Not sure how she’s always the dirtiest of the bunch when she has the least amount of fur.)
So, it was bath time again. The reason this bath time was a little different was because Santa had brought the humans of the house a nice fluffy little throw rug for their bedroom. After their bathes the pugs always rip & tear through the house. While this bath time was the norm with the rip & tear routine what was different was that eventually they settled onto the new fluffy throw rug to complete their drying cycle.
At some points it even seemed like the pugs were floating on a fluffy white cloud. While they may have been little terrors in the tub, they do look like little angels in these photos.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
So, if you read Monday’s blog post, you might have wondered why it was titled Going Bananas. Sure, you might be able to infer that after all that grooming I was a little bit out of my mind, and while that is true, my whole point of titling the post Going Bananas was because we got some new shampoo that smells like bananas.
It was my intention to tie all that in and the new banana shampoo was supposed to be the real subject of the post. But I got interrupted a couple times and totally lost my train of thought. It wasn’t until a re-read the post yesterday that it dawned on me that I only told half the story.
So here is rest:
We bought some banana scented shampoo for the pugs. In the bottle, it smelled just like banana runts! And banana runts are the only runts worth eating in my opinion 
So now, I have 3 little pugs running around the house that smell like fresh bananas. I like it. Too bad it won’t last long!
Monday, December 10, 2007
This Sunday the pugs went 5 rounds with beauty.
- Round 1: Toenail clipping and grinding
- Round 2: A Good Teeth Brushing
- Round 3: Brushing with the Zoom Groom
- Round 4: Wrinkle & Ear Cleaning
- Round 5: A Bath
Little Luna was the last to get a bath and too celebrate we gave her a fur hawk. Needless to say she wasn’t thrilled!
Monday, October 1, 2007
On Saturday evening, while relaxing on the couch and watching some TV with the pugs nestled around us, I couldn’t help but notice how smelly the pugs were. Henry smelled straight up like a dirty dog, Benjamin smelled like bad cheese and Luna somehow smelled like Chinese food. Deciding that I couln’t get a sudden craving for Moo Goo Gai Pan everytime Luna came near, I knew I had to give the pugs each a bath on Sunday so that they wouldn’t clear each room they entered.
Since I was giving them a bath, I figured I might as well brush them, clip their nails and clean their ears while I was at it. Brushing did not go quite as smoothly as usual. We headed out into the backyard for a nice brushing shortly after the pugs’ dinner and they were just way too excited to be brushed. All they wanted to do was play. Despite that I did manage to get a little bit of brushing in. It wasn’t my best work, but it was better than nothing.
Up next was toenail clipping, and no one enjoys that! It went pretty well, though. 60 toenails were cut and 60 Cheerios were issued (plus a few extra for good behavior) and no one bled. I’ll count that one as a victory.
The only thing left were baths and ear cleanings. Both of those tasks went fairly smoothly. After their baths, I figured it made sense to wash their dog beds and all of their favorite things to lay on so as to keep the pugs clean a little longer.
By the time everything was said and done, I was exhausted and so were the pugs. I know tomorrow though, I will have 3 squeaky clean pugs on my hands that are just itching to get dirty!
Monday, July 30, 2007
This weekend was full of pampering for the pugs. Although, we clearly did not see eye to eye. The pampering began on Saturday evening with toenail clipping and I don’t think any of the pugs would classify this as pampering. I think they would liken it to torture with a few Cheerios thrown in here and there. On Sunday, everyone got a good brushing which they thoroughly enjoyed. Then, everyone got a bath. Henry enjoyed his bath and Luna would have enjoyed her bath had she not had to get wet. And Benjamin, well he was a nervous wreck. Not only does he not care for getting wet, but he is very antsy during his bath. It is almost like he can’t bear to see his dirt being washed away and that he is afraid that he is going to get sucked down the drain with it.
So, if you were to talk to the pugs, they would say that the only good thing of the weekend was being brushed. Well, that and the pizza crust they got on Sunday night!
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
This weekend, Benjamin, Henry & Luna got a good zoom grooming to get rid of a lot of their extra fur. All three are typical pugs and they shed a ton, but I find that brushing them takes a lot of fur off in one clip. It doesn’t stop the shedding, but it at least helps to manage it a bit.
Zoom Grooming the boys lulls them into a very calm state and after their brushing they are so cute because they looks so sleepy.
For Luna, Zoom Grooming has the opposite effect. She gets very fired up when she gets brushed. She then runs around the yard like a crazy woman doing her very best to get the boys interested in playing. Despite her best efforts, she can never seem to get the boys riled up. So instead, she just runs as fast as she can, not really knowing if she is coming or going. It is quite a sight!
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Henry is the resident ear cleaner at our house. Rarely does a day go by that Henry does not inspect both Benjamin & Luna’s ears and if he finds anything he starts licking away. He is rather diligent and his hard work really pays off. It is rare that we ever need to clean Benjamin or Luna’s ears.
The only problem with Henry’s ear cleaning is he never flips Benjamin’s ear back into place. So after a good ear cleaning Benjamin is left looking like this.
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