We are getting the carpets steam cleaned today. Although, all the four legged creatures of the house are very well potty trained, with the amount of foot traffic we have, we like to get the carpets cleaned from time to time to keep things looking and smelling nice.
I thought you guys might like to get in on a little side bet we make every time we get the carpets cleaned. Who will be the first to throw-up on the freshly cleaned carpets? My bet is on Cupid within a week of the cleaning. Although, Benny is very competitive too.
Have a great weekend everyone! If you ordered a calendar, I am working like mad to get them all shipped out.
Say hello to Reese! Reese is Benjamin, Henry, Luna & Cupid’s new cousin. Reese is an American Bulldog and Bull Mastiff mix who was adopted from a Bulldog Rescue organization is Rising Sun Maryland. She is a year old and had a rough start to life, but she is now in a wonderful forever home and is set for life!
Benjamin loves to chew and when he chews for hours on end in the evenings he naturally gets thirsty. During a normal chewing session, he makes a couple of trips to the water bowl and it isn’t uncommon for him to come close to emptying the pugs’ huge water bowl. But while he empties the water bowl, I would be surprised if he actually drinks more than a few tablespoons of water. We have labeled him the most inefficient canine drinker because he somehow always ends up soaking his chin and that cute little bit of extra skin under his neck with water.
I always thought he just dipped his chin in the water while he was drinking, but this super slow motion video of a dog drinking may shed a little bit of light on the subject. In any case, I found this video of how a dog drinks very fascinating.
This is the scene on most Saturday nights. Heck, who am I kidding. It is pretty much like this every night. The only thing that makes this picture less realistic is that the cat is not perched on the back of the couch. The sofa has three cushions and each one of the pugs has claimed a cushion for themselves. Good thing the pugs are lap dogs or else the humans of the house would be left seeking comfortable seating elsewhere.
This is how I feel / what I wished I was doing this morning. It is a short week, but so far Tuesday and Wednesday have really packed a wallop!
In any case, Luna is doing pretty good. We had a low key night and she just snuggled on the couch getting some much needed rest. I am hoping to have a post about Luna’s teeth cleaning for tomorrow. Nothing catastrophic, just some details on the current state of her pearly whites.
The pugs have an odd fascination with rental cars. I’m not really sure how all this came about, as it’s not like we have a rental very often, but for some odd reason, the pugs insist on going for a ride in any rental that we have. Now that I think about it, the pugs insist on going for a ride in any car that is at our house. When my parents came to visit they insisted on going for a ride in my Dad’s big truck. It is Henry that always leads the charge, but Luna and Benjamin would never miss a trip.
Don’t worry we didn’t let him ride in the back. But while in the driveway he loved to sit back there. He thought he was King.
So yesterday, when the rental car returned to our driveway after what the pugs thought was a miraculous 4 day disappearance that left just one human to pet them, the pugs expected to go for a car ride. Apparently, we weren’t going fast enough because the next thing I know Henry jumps into the trunk. I would not have expected anything like that from Henry, he isn’t a jumper at all. As soon as Benjamin sees Henry in the trunk, he hops right in and sits on the suitcase because he knows he has a present in there (A new knucklebone in this case. G-Ma has taught him his friend the suitcase always comes back to the house with a treat in it.) With the boys in the trunk, all happy with themselves, Luna wants in too. So we help Luna get into the trunk and the three of them are like pigs in mud.
So we unpack the suitcases and pugs from the trunk and then we go on the obligatory different car at my house ride on which we let the pugs ride in the backseat and from Henry’s point of view all is then right with the world.
