Monday, October 1, 2007

Not Their Idea of a Good Time

On Saturday evening, while relaxing on the couch and watching some TV with the pugs nestled around us, I couldn’t help but notice how smelly the pugs were.  Henry smelled straight up like a dirty dog, Benjamin smelled like bad cheese and Luna somehow smelled like Chinese food.  Deciding that I couln’t get a sudden craving for Moo Goo Gai Pan everytime Luna came near, I knew I had to give the pugs each a bath on Sunday so that they wouldn’t clear each room they entered.

Since I was giving them a bath, I figured I might as well brush them, clip their nails and clean their ears while I was at it.  Brushing did not go quite as smoothly as usual.  We headed out into the backyard for a nice brushing shortly after the pugs’ dinner and they were just way too excited to be brushed.  All they wanted to do was play.  Despite that I did manage to get a little bit of brushing in.  It wasn’t my best work, but it was better than nothing.

Up next was toenail clipping, and no one enjoys that!  It went pretty well, though.  60 toenails were cut and 60 Cheerios were issued (plus a few extra for good behavior) and no one bled.  I’ll count that one as a victory.

The only thing left were baths and ear cleanings.  Both of those tasks went fairly smoothly.  After their baths, I figured it made sense to wash their dog beds and all of their favorite things to lay on so as to keep the pugs clean a little longer.

By the time everything was said and done, I was exhausted and so were the pugs.  I know tomorrow though, I will have 3 squeaky clean pugs on my hands that are just itching to get dirty!