Ask OBP #12

Do/did your pugs play with toys past puppyhood? My pug loved his toys until he was about 1 1/2, then if it wasn’t food, it wasn’t going in his mouth and wanted nothing to do with it.

Oh, Cupid!  Free massages with a little violence in the end…when our children were small we did have a kitty that like to chew hair, but he never was violent.  Interesting.  One of our puggles (pug/beagle mix) is a licker.  He is a rescue we adopted when he was 6.  He doesn’t lick people but will lick just about anything else, sometimes constantly. We wish we knew why. And either he was trained to not lick people or he just doesn’t like their taste.  I’ve noticed when he has an upset tummy, he will pull fibers out of carpets, either throw rugs or wall to wall.  Of course, he did get hold of a small section of wall to wall in our new house but it’s not noticeable…we have to really watch when this happens, I’m afraid what too many long fibers would do to his insides. Minnie, our other puggle, loves to lick people legs especially when just moisturized or when sweaty! She licks faces, too, but most of the time she can’t reach them!
We always enjoy your Q&A sessions.  We will try to come up with some good questions!

That picture of Cupid is hysterical! I have one hair licking pug, but thankfully (maybe not) it’s his own and it’s what fell out on the floor! If we go too long between vacuuming our hardwood floors Pen will walk along the edge of the room licking up all the pug hair that has drifted there. You’d think I would be grateful for the floor cleaning but no. He ends up with hair caught in his throat and starts hacking and coughing like he’s going to hurl. His tongue leaves “pug spit” on the floor, which is not easy to mop up, I swear that stuff is made of glue! And finally we have the “dingleberry” problem when all that hair moves through to the other end of the system. YUK!

Oh no…maybe my puggies are abbynormal then;) It is only Olive that licks…and oddly enough my husband will often say that she thinks she’s a cat!!!

Oh Cupid, what a stinker you are.  I know cats like to play with a lot of things, but never heard of hair and scalp being one of them.That is a beautiful picture of you Cupid. 

Vickie (my “daughter”) has three pugs:  Zippo, Zeus and Quita.  She has found several spots where Zeus has licked Zippo bald.  So Christie, you are not the Lone Ranger. I personally have not had a licker pug other than the kissing kind.

Genevieve loves to lick my husbands bald head every night.  Usually after his shower but she loves his sweatty head too. She will lick my legs sometimes after my shower. She has always been a picky eater, too. A total carnivore.

My pug Oscar also licks my hair and then tries to eat it. My other 2 pugs don’t do that. Unfortunately, just this am , I confirmed 8 yr old Oscar also is wetting the bed now at night.