Here is a little video from this weekend’s swimming fun. Henry just loves to pull anything out of the pool and he has gotten quite brave and now leaps into the water without hesitation. A few things to note in the video. Notice when Henry jumps into the pool how Benjamin and Luna bark at him. You can see Luna watching him very closely from land. Also, I love how little Luna blocks Henry from getting out of the pool on the first try. That’s what he gets for showing off!
If you pay close attention, you will notice that Benjamin does not bark whenever Ann from CFPR is talking. That is because Ann is a very good friend of Benny’s. She once baked him a whole loaf of special “Baby Benny’s Pugkin Bread” and he has never forgotten!
If it wasn’t for the continuous shooting mode on my camera getting group shots of the pugs would be a lot harder. When we take pictures of Benjamin, Henry & Luna posed in front of things, like the new flower pots, as soon as they are sorta in place I just start shooting and I fire off as many shots as possible before someone moves too far out of place. This means I end up with tons of photos. I think I had around 85 pictures for the flower pot shoot. Most of these pictures aren’t the greatest because one of the pugs is looking away or one of them has their eyes closed or someone, Luna, has simply walked away. But it always amuses me when I flip through iPhoto quickly. It is like a little flip book of the pugs posing.
I wanted to share, so I created a little video. Enjoy.
p.s. - Sorry for no photo to go along with yesterday’s raffle post. I will do my best to make it up to you
Luna has really taken a liking to the bag of loot we got for the pugs a few weeks ago. Instead of having a squeaker it has crinkle stuff and boy does she ever make some noise with that thing.
Life with Benny involves a lot of bone holding. We spoiled him when he was a pup and would hold his bone for him while he chewed so needless to say we have raised a pug that couldn’t hold his own bone if his life depended on it. You reap what you sow, I guess.
In any case, Benny loves to chew so we do a lot of bone holding for him and when we are unable to hold his bone we must come up with a creative way to simulate us holding the bone. Like wedging it between sofa cushions. But, while Benny loves to chew he certainly isn’t a very effective chewer. This goes back to my do the things you love even if you are not the best at them thing that I learned from Henry.
When Benny chews a rawhide bone all he does is soften it up with his slobber. He will work for hours on end, but never really gets anything. When Henry chews we have to keep a very close eye on him to keep him from eating too much at one time. Even Luna, who has the smallest mouth I have ever seen on a pug, can chew circles around Ben.
But it is all moot because there is really nothing Benny likes to do more than go to town chewing a bone while you graciously hold it for him. And this, my friends, is what that is like.
I have been on a quest to get a good video of the pugs playing to share with you and until now, I haven’t really been able to capture anything good. Most of the times when the pugs are playing I don’t have the Flip handy and by the time I go get it I end up with 3 pugs just staring up at me.
But, the other night I was able to get a little video of the pugs playing around the pool. Benjamin & Henry love to chase each other around the pool. Luna, as you will notice in the video, isn’t too fond of circling the pool. Since she doesn’t see too well, she tends to hang back while the boys are chasing each other near the gigantic puddle in the yard. You will see her in the video a bit, and I would like to point out, that she is running no where near as fast as she can. She takes it easy on the boys
My favorite part of the video comes at about 1:32 when Benny turns into a mad man and circles the bench.
Hopefully, there will be more playing videos to come. I will try to get one of little Luna outrunning her big brothers.
Benjamin, Henry & Luna each got baths on Sunday. They were quite smelly so not only did we bathe them but we washed pretty much everything they come in contact with, which meant the house smelled really good on Sunday.
After his bath, Benny always gets fired up and runs around like a wild man. Here is a little video of him running around the living room. At around 16 seconds you will seem him stop and smell under the laundry room door. There is blueberry bread behind that door!
