Friends

Yum, yum!  Can’t wait to see the pug eating photos!
And Jade is adorable! 

Happy Thanksgiving!
Minnie and Mack

Jade, you look stunning…don’t you know you’re not supposed to steal the show from the bride!   I’m so jealous that Jade and her humans get to hang with the OBP crew in real life!!  How wonderfully delightful they gift pugkin bread…now those are great friends!  Enjoy gang!

I bet you’re right sue.  In fact, I’m amazed that they aren’t standing in the middle of the table slurping it up.

Abby, our resident curmudgeon (although my husband swears it’s really me), has declared war (well, more like a passive/aggressive strike) on Georgie and Gracie.  Cooper she just ignores.

She was sitting on my lap while I was trying to read and I turned the page and looked up to see Gracie on the floor wanting to come up the doggie stairs.  Abby had been half asleep (I thought) but she got up from my lap and blantantly moved oversat at the top of the doggie stairs effectively preventing Gracie’s use of them by plopping her little fanny right down in Gracie’s way at the top of the stair.  Gracie has the ability to jump straight up three feet or so if she’s a mind to so I just let Abby’s antic go and left Gracie to her own devices.  Now had that been Georgie (who needs a cane to get up even one stair alone), I would have intervened but it wasn’t and I didn’t.  Gracie’s a happy-go-lucky dog so her psychie wasn’t damaged and Abby feels she got away with something. Ahhhhhh, Pugs!

Jade, you do look lovely my dear. And how exciting to meet Corrine in real life! Thats like meeting a celebrity!

Huckle ~ I love your stories. Pugs are so funny aren’t they!!!

Pip had a great weekend. Well he did throw up yesterday morning but I think he just ate too much. My fault. I was giving him his meds and I think it was a combo of too many meds at once and too much food. He was shaking and moaning. It was terrible. I called the vet’s emergency number and we just took it easy and then in about an hour, he had recovered. phew. Phew! I thought everything was getting of whack again! He is back at the vet again today and they are going to call me with ‘numbers’ and we will see where we are.

Ok…How is everyone else’s pugs doing? Sending prayers for all.

Pug Hugs to all from Gina & Pip

Wow, all kinds of fun!  Seeing old friends (Dogless and Jade!) and pugkin bread!  Great times!!

Huckle, I think Abby’s strategy is both brilliant and hilarious!  I can picture it so well!!

And Gina, continued prayers for Pip!  With the exception of yesterday morning, I’m happy he’s doing well!

Love, Love, Love the picture of the pugs with the pumpkin bread and .....they were being so good to not dive in until their pictures were taken. It was so great to see you both at the art show and you Corrine again when I picked up the calanders. We will see each other again soon. Just love the calander…..it rocks!
OXO
Jade’s Grandmaw…...aka Mary, Mary

Sue VDB - Belated birthday smooch to Romeo!!  How has his breathing been over the weekend?  I know he had great birthday treats that put his nervous memories of the vet in the past!

WOW!!! What a beautiful addition to any party…especially a wedding!!!!

OK Guys,
WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT A YOUNGER PUG! I can have all I want of older older ones FREE from most rescues. My daughter (just hit 51) was turned down two years ago for the same reason!!!!

NOW I love and would love to have an older put but it hurts so bad when they pass. I do have two 20 plus living here and they would be able to bond along with me.

Helen I am so sorry about adopting a younger pug I don’t understand those rescues but I do have to say working with a pug rescue there are so many loving older pugs who need homes they are passed over so many times and they have so much love to give I know its hard to lose them but the love they will give you I hope it works out that you have a puggy real soon no matter what the age is

This is really long but it’s a good Pip update!

He was back at the vet today and they ran his numbers again. Our main concern is his white blood cell count. That tells us how bad the infection is and if the IV anti-biotics are working. Normal range is below 50,000 and last week it was at 72,000. They got it down to 50,000 before and then took him off the anti-biotics and then the infection got worse. It was then that they switched to a more powerful anti-biotic and different fluids. That is what he has been on for a week now. Well, as of tonight, his white blood cell count is…...52,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hooray! That is what we want to hear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are keeping him on these anti-biotics at least through Wednesday where they will run his numbers again to see where they are. Hopefully, they will be even lower!!!!!!!! So this means he has to go back to the vet again tomorrow and Wednesday and he was there all day today too.

The vet called with an update today and said that Pip was feeling much better b/c he was “feisty”. And I said “feisty? what do you mean feisty?” Well evidently, Pip snapped at one of the techs while they were drawing blood today! They were laughing and thought it was funny b/c he isn’t the most ferocious thing in the world and they had expected him to do this way before now! If you think about it, this is his third week of being there all day where he gets blood drawn twice a day ~ thats a needle in the front of his lower neck ~ he has a catheter in his front leg which is taped on and stays in all week. It is taken out before he comes home for the weekend (or Thanksgiving day). His front legs have to be so sore from that. That is where he gets his anti biotics three times a day and then three times a day he is getting sub-q fluids which is basically, a needle stuck in between his shoulder blades and fluid is pumped right under his skin from an IV bag. And on top of all that, he is getting two shots a day of his insulin. (good news there-his diabetes seems to be predictable now and somewhat regulated ) So I would’ve snapped long before today. He is such a good boy and the techs tell me that they just adore him and he is their favorite. I can see why they think that. The doc was making fun of Pip’s underbite saying “he may have an underbite but he can still ‘get ya’ when he wants to.” All in good fun of course! And as of today, he is down to 17 pounds! Too skinny! He is a different dog! The vet said it was good that he was chunky when he got sick b/c it allowed him to lose the weight and not be a concern. I said I’m totally going with that for me. I’m a bit chunky ‘just in case’ I get sick.

All the prayers are working and I can’t thank everyone enough! Hugs to you all!!!

Thank you Sue!