Monday, October 7, 2013

Luscious

Sometimes, I think Benny has gotten cuter with age. His face isn't as dark as it once was, but his wrinkles are as luscious as ever! When he was a puppy, I thought he might grow into his wrinkles a bit, but he never did.

It's funny because while Benny is very wrinkly, Henry and Luna have almost no face wrinkles. Between, the three pugs I would say we have an average number of pug wrinkles in the house, it just so happens that Benny wears them all.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

A Noise in the Kitchen

I think someone is in the kitchen, what do you think?

Out of the three with their eyes glued on the kitchen, Henry is the only one that can still jump off the bed. Benjamin and Luna are both smart enough to know that they can't handle jumping off the bed anymore.

They both send out an alert when they want to get off the bed, but they do it in very different ways. Luna sounds out a series of very authoritative barks that sound like "Get", "Me", "NOW". Ben, on the other hand, sits near the edge and whimpers as only Baby Benny can do. Two very different, but both very effect techniques.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

First Nap of the Day

This was the sight early Saturday morning shortly after Benny had breakfast and went potty. Luna and Benjamin are notorious early risers for breakfast. Given the fact that there are no morning persons in this household, no one is every happy when either Benjamin or Luna start to whine for breakfast.

But, I can totally see why Luna and Benny don't mind getting up early for breakfast. They eat, the go potty and usually they are fast asleep within 20 minutes. I wouldn't mind getting up early either if I knew I was going to be able to go back to sleep about 20 minutes later.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Creature of Habit

To ensure the safety of puffy and to make sure that Benjamin has access to puffy while we are away, we keep puffy in Ben's crate. That's not to say he doesn't fish it out of the crate and take it to various parts of the house. However, whenever we see puffy laying about we toss it back in Benny's crate for safe keeping. This also helps Benny. Whenever he is looking for puffy, he checks his crate first.

Every night after Benny finished his dinner, he goes outside through the doggie doors, and goes potty. When he comes back into the house, he gets his puff and and brings it to us in the living room. At that moment he is so content. He has a full belly, an empty bladder and is ready to settle down for the night.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Tantrum

Benny has always been prone to throw a tantrum when he can smell that there are treats nearby and that he is not getting them. But, on Saturday morning he threw quite the tantrum over a bag of treats that always sit on the counter. The treats are biljacs and we use them to give the pugs pills. We also use them as a reward after Luna gets her inhaler.

On Saturday morning we gave Luna her inhaler and then gave all the pugs a reward for Luna doing such a great job. 3 biljacs per pug to be exact. After the pugs got their treats we zipped the bag backup up and put them on the counter. Well, Benny wanted more treats and this is the little show he put on to get more.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Backup Puffy

While looking at old pictures, I came across this picture of backup puffy and I couldn't believe how fresh and new backup puffy looked!

Puffy and backup puffy were the first toys given to Benjamin and Henry from G-Ma. G-Ma gave the boys their puffys the first day that she met them. So, puffy and backup puffy are as old as the boys. Before I saw this picture, I thought puffy and backup puffy were in good shape. I had forgotten how fuzzy they were when the boys first got them. They may not be as fluffy anymore, but the fact that they are still in one piece 11 years later is a feat in itself!

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Jitters

Huckle mentioned in the comments that one of her pugs can not take Theophylline because it makes them jittery. That reminds me of a funny story, well funny now, that I would like to share.

On Christmas day last year Benny had a serious case of the jitters. He couldn't settle, was panting and acting totally out of character. He was giving us a pretty good scare and I was thinking that we might have to spend part of Christmas day at the emergency vet.

Our first thoughts were that he got into something that he wasn't supposed to. We had a houseful of family so our routine was off, but everyone is really good about making sure they don't leave anything around that the pugs could get in to.

I was replaying every second of the day in my head and then it hit me - I gave Benny Luna's breathing pill!

Luna gets her breathing pill tucked inside a biljac treat. Even though the boys don't get a pill, they get a treat. As I was replaying things, I remember accidentally giving Benny Luna's treat. Suddenly, things were making a lot more sense. One of the side effects of Luna's medicine is jitteriness. Sol suffered from this a bit, but not too bad, Luna has absolutely no signs of the jitters whatsoever. And, well, now we know that Benny will never be able to take Theophylline because that boy was a mess all day!

Once we knew what was wrong with him we couldn't help but chuckle because Benny probably has 10 pounds on Luna and her dose of the medicine was wreaking havoc on his system. We have always said that Benny is very sensitive and once again he proved it.